Oscilloscope doubles as a serial terminal

Pshaw, it's raster and since it doesn't fit 80 columns in I can't play nethack on it! I've been meaning to get an Apple IIc to use as a serial terminal: http://www.bytecellar.com/archives/000113.php

I've had some Wyse terms before that sucked, and I've unsuccessfully bid on eBay for ADM-3A terminals before, but I kind of ran out of steam on pure-hardware terminals when I discovered that GNU Screen can open character devices directly!

I only need to get a serial console on something a few times a year, but when I do I really need it to work, whether I'm getting console on a network device, an embedded ultrasound machine, or a case full of modems I'm hacking. GNU Screen satisfies that need perfectly, especially since I'm always working in it already.

I like the idea of the Apple IIc terminal because it combines the warm fuzzies of ancient greenscreen hardware with the not-sucking-ass of a pure-software terminal emulator implementation. That it's cute and diminutive is a bonus.

I always wanted to do something like that with my scope's XY display. The TA in my intro to EE class a couple of years ago was unimpressed when I set up my function generator to generate horizontal and vertical scan sweeps instead of the Lissajous she was expecting..

That is pure art.

This is crazysexycool! Only thing that makes me sad is our good digital scopes probably wouldn't work w/ this. Of course, on the other hand, that'd kind of defeat the purpose ;)