VT-69 Portable Terminal
The VT-69 is a portable, battery-powered dumb terminal, along the lines of a VT-100, VT-220, Wyse WY-50, or other such microprocessor-controlled dumb terminals of the mid-80s to mid-90s. It's a portable shell, or a game console that only plays text-based adventures.
Features include:
- 4" LCD with 800x480 resolution
- Display allows for a full 80x24 character display. This is not a graphical display. It will only display text characters.
- 65536 colors, all of them.
- Silicone membrane keyboard
- 69 keys. That's why it's the VT-69.
- Custom-desinged, it's like the keypad on a remote control
- Other keyboard layouts supported; DVORAK, QWERTZ, and AZERTY are simply a matter of keyboard legends.
- Battery power
- Internal LiPo battery (> 2000 mAh) is charged from USB-C connector.
- Provides > 12 hours of battery life.
- Microcontroller
- ATSAMD51 clocked at blistering 120MHz
- Custom software libraries allow for fastest text rendering possible
- Connectivity
- DE-9 RS-232 serial connector, provided with MAX3232
- Serial output over USB-C connector
- Internal UART connectors allow for internal connection to $Single Board Computer$ (a la VT-180) or any other development board with a 'standard' 40-pin header.
- Hardware handshaking in both DE-9 RS-232 port and internal header
- Supports almost every terminal escape code recognized by the Linux console.
- Documentation
