Comment by ๐ stack
Re: "Hooking Up an Old Serial Terminal on NetBSD"
There is something magical about the giant all-in-one terminals...The roundness, the colors, the real mechanical keyboard...
2024-12-01 ยท 1 year ago
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Hooking Up an Old Serial Terminal on NetBSD โ I recently got an old Wyse WY-55 terminal hooked up to my NetBSD machine using a USB serial adapter, and I documented the process. I had never set up a "dumb" terminal before so it was a learning experience. Turns out, once I figured out what I was doing, getting NetBSD to communicate with the terminal amounted to adding one line to a text file. Hooray for man pages and text-based configuration! My write up is here: [gemini link]