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VT-69 Portable Terminal

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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

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