Re: Silly serial console question

2009-02-10 Thread Michael Grigoni
Nick Bender wrote: Teletype (tty) # # These are the hardcopy Teletypes from before AT&T bought the company, # clattering electromechanical dinosaurs in Bakelite cases that printed on # pulpy yellow roll paper. If you remember these you go back a ways. # Teletype-branded VDTs are listed i

Re: Silly serial console question

2009-02-10 Thread Nick Bender
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Dave Wilson wrote: > In my grandfather's attic (RIP) I unearthed one of these: > > http://www.omnidatasys.net/product/spec_dataterminal_ti703.htm > > which in a nutshell is a paper terminal which runs at 300 baud. > > I figured it could be fun to set it up as a se

Silly serial console question

2009-02-10 Thread Dave Wilson
In my grandfather's attic (RIP) I unearthed one of these: http://www.omnidatasys.net/product/spec_dataterminal_ti703.htm which in a nutshell is a paper terminal which runs at 300 baud. I figured it could be fun to set it up as a serial console on one of my machines, and maybe useful if I left it

console question

2008-02-29 Thread Need Coffee
I feel I should probably know why, but I can't seem to find anything explaining it... and my curiosity is just too great. Why does the console behave differently in bsd.rd vs. bsd? I can almost always get serial console to work on some sun amd64 machines with bsd.rd, regardless of console redirec

Re: serial console question

2006-07-22 Thread Denny White
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Today Nick Holland wrote: Denny White wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've hunted around the archives, googled, read the faq on serial consoles, read what's in my copy of Absolute OpenBSd, but can't seem to find what I need t

Re: serial console question

2006-07-22 Thread Nick Holland
Denny White wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've hunted around the archives, googled, read the faq on serial consoles, read what's in my copy of Absolute OpenBSd, but can't seem to find what I need to fix my problem. Running obsd 3.9 on one box & obsd 3.8 on an ancient p90.

serial console question

2006-07-22 Thread Denny White
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've hunted around the archives, googled, read the faq on serial consoles, read what's in my copy of Absolute OpenBSd, but can't seem to find what I need to fix my problem. Running obsd 3.9 on one box & obsd 3.8 on an ancient p90. I connected my null