Best Investment you can make for your RC2014
For VGA Serial Terminal Kit for RC2014
Not to disparage any of the other kits out there. I own quite a few of them. It is just that I find being tethered to another PC to run the RC2014 is inconvenient. There is the PI based terminal, which I have but I find this to be more compact and easier to use. It was also a breeze to build. Took under an hour.
Easy layout to solder. Had no issues and the terminal sprang to life first time I plugged it in and turned it on. And there was a satisfying beep at power-on just like my old PC's in the 80's. I may have to mod it to output to an amplified, actual, PC speaker at some point just to get some more oomph out of it :-) but not until I build a case for the RC2014.
Easily my favorite addition thus far simply for the utility of it. I am running it in a Backplane Pro with the CPUv2, Pageable ROM, 64K RAM, Compact Flash Storage, original clock board and original serial/FTDI board. This is basically the upgraded, original RC2014 with the original G Searle CP/M add-on kit and I upgraded it to the Backplane Pro to have more expansion slots.
Works with every USB keyboard I have tried so far.
Absolutely __love__ this bit of kit. I'd give it 6 stars if I could.
