But of course, that’s never stopped him before. Recreating the VT100 in CAD was made more difficult by the fact that couldn’t get his hands on the authentic hardware. Put simply, he’s essentially just made a 3D printed enclosure for the Pi’s monitor and keyboard. Since the faux PDP-8/I is running on a Raspberry Pi, all he needed to do was come up with something that could connect to its HDMI and USB ports. Now to be clear, hasn’t created a true serial terminal. Leaning on his considerable experience in designing 3D printed replica hardware, he’s built an absolutely gorgeous scaled down DEC VT100 terminal that any classic computer aficionado would be happy to have on their desk. But rather than be discouraged, he reasoned that if his “retro” computer could stand to have modern components at its heart, so could the terminal he used to talk to it. When he went shopping for a vintage serial terminal to go along with his reproduction PDP-8/I computer, came down with a bad case of sticker shock.
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