I was at Mini Maker Faire Evanston last Saturday night when a green glow caught my eye. Walking closer, I noticed it was a dumb terminal... connected to a Raspberry Pi!
Ed Bennett, my fellow Pumping Station: One member, explains how he hooked up his old Televideo 910 dumb terminal on his blog. Who says it takes a $500 tablet with Angry Birds to make today's kids happy? These two seems to be quite intrigued with the glass teletype!
Cheers,
Drew
Haha, excellent! 
I now feel so sad that I threw away all my dumb terminals, both green and amber. And the fact that modern Unix computers are small enough to embed within the terminal itself makes this doubly appealing.
That's a great idea to put it inside... but I don't we can called it a dumb terminal anymore! 
It's just occurred to me that some youngsters must have no idea why a "terminal program" is called that. 
Morgaine Dinova wrote:
It's just occurred to me that some youngsters must have no idea why a "terminal program" is called that.
I've always liked the term "glass teletype". That's even harder to explain. There's good archival metal teletype footage in The Andromeda Strain (1971 -- now with less bell!) and While the City Sleeps (1956). Wow, I love that sound -- it makes your computer sound like it's doing something important.
Drew Fustini wrote:
That's a great idea to put it inside... but I don't we can call it a dumb terminal anymore!
I guess you could call it a Heathkit H89 :-)
but I don't we can called it a dumb terminal anymore!
Many of the 80's era dumb terminals probably had a lot more computing power than people realise, all down to the economies of mass produced cheap cpus.
One of the places I worked, long time ago now, was a subcontractor building some HP dumb terminals. The terminal had an 8086, something like 512KB ram, 1MB rom and lots of nice high voltage stuff to run the tube all on a single pcb that was only barely double sided. We were building 286 PC's at the same time that realistically weren't that much more powerful, they just had far better peripheral options.
Your pal Ed Bennett whose Televideo 910 dumb terminal is featured here - is it possible that he might lend a bit of expertise a fan endeavor of ours?
We're looking for any 'dumb' terminal from the 70's or 80's that has the same look as the terminal used on the cover of Kraftwerk's Computer World, one that works and on which we might display ascii art of the band or at least the album cover. It's a fan project. We're specifically buying a Hazeltine 1500 unless a far cheaper option appears.
Likely we can interface any functioning terminal with a Raspberry Pi and a rs-232 serial could talk to it for sure
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_World
In the off chance that I don't see a reply here, feel free to cc us at dsanborn at gmail dot com and THANKS in advance!
Dave
I love it! I spent so many hours in front of one of these back in the dawn of time. Sometimes I miss those times when computing was more about programming and less about all the shinny things that people use today. 
