No escape key? No problem! Ctl-[ to the rescue. If you really want to puzzle the kids let them loose on an old hpux or irix box where # is remapped to backspace and @ is remapped to kill...
That's a lovely terminal; makes me wish I'd held onto my vt220 just to show the kids all the weird things people used to have to put up with. I remember there was something deranged about it's keyboard that I eventually came to not really mind all that much. Eventually I spent years of my life in front of a decstation 3100 and I think I eventually got used to the strange layout.
JdeBP · 8m ago
Did you ever use those settings on an old printer terminal? Visible but unusual punctuation for erase and kill made sense with paper terminals, where back space was as non-destructive as forward space was.
(Amusingly, TianoCore makes BS destructive, and that breaks the spinners displayed by the NetBSD boot loader.)
One other amusing thing is that the LK201 et al. are RS423 at 4800 BPS 8N1, so with suitable voltage-level-converting adapters should be easier to plug in to modern SBC kit than a (non bimodal) PS/2 keyboard is.
That's a lovely terminal; makes me wish I'd held onto my vt220 just to show the kids all the weird things people used to have to put up with. I remember there was something deranged about it's keyboard that I eventually came to not really mind all that much. Eventually I spent years of my life in front of a decstation 3100 and I think I eventually got used to the strange layout.
(Amusingly, TianoCore makes BS destructive, and that breaks the spinners displayed by the NetBSD boot loader.)
One other amusing thing is that the LK201 et al. are RS423 at 4800 BPS 8N1, so with suitable voltage-level-converting adapters should be easier to plug in to modern SBC kit than a (non bimodal) PS/2 keyboard is.