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. 
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.
