A cool little project came our way, which we thought might be of interest to some of you vintage computer buffs. [Joerg Hoppe] wrote in to share a DEC VT100 terminal he resurrected in a novel fashion.

How do you make a great terminal even better? The answer is simple: add a BeagleBone Black to it! [Brendan] got his hands on one of the staples of classic computing, the DEC VT100 terminal. The VT100 ...

This complete ASCII VT100-compatible terminal basically comprises a single PIC MCU, a handful of discrete components, and a bunch of connectors. Before I digress — and we all know I’m going to — let ...

Run telnet, and at the prompt type 'set term VT100'. This will set it to the vt100 terminal type. There's other features too, which you can see by typing help at the prompt. Also, Hyperterminal, which ...