I have a VT220 in my office. About ten years ago I used to use it regularly as a terminal for my Mac laptop. I tried hooking it up to an M1 Mac recently but had a ton of issues. First there was no drivers for my serial adapter. Once I got that straightened out, I fought with getting getty working for multiple hours yet failed to get it to work correctly.
I gave up, but I should circle back. Part of me is considering selling it.
Yes, another major problem is that lots of apps just ignore termcap/terminfo these days and just blab xterm-256color directly to the terminal. I've heard people say that running it through tmux fixes that (tmux seems to be smart that way) but I have yet to try it. My 520 is currently in a box.
I didn't have those issues you mention but I run FreeBSD where serial and getty is still a first-class citizen. Though I don't blame Apple for deprecating it.
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I gave up, but I should circle back. Part of me is considering selling it.
I didn't have those issues you mention but I run FreeBSD where serial and getty is still a first-class citizen. Though I don't blame Apple for deprecating it.
https://github.com/sjmulder/trickle/
trickle can simulate an old PTS/ISDN connection speed too.
Usage:
Or: outerlimits.vt can fastly be found at the same repo of theattyr