WORK IN PROGRESS JUST NOTES NOW
What a terrible title but it does capture the essence. I came into this Tektronix 3001 Logic Analyzer. I wasn’t sure what to do with it. Way too old to be useful but old enough to have a bit of a retro vibe. I already have plans to update the keyboard. But oh that luscious verdant P-31 phosphor. I can’t toss that in the bin.
So what can we do? It looks like the video is TTL Let’s make a terminal! My first job after college was doing serial terminal firmware for Data General so this will a good look back. I have seen some projects using a RP2040 to generate VGA or HDMI video. I should be able to do similar for a monochrome display.
The RP2040 has 2 CPU cores and fits well where one core can be the CRTC and the other can process the serial data and ANSI text commands.
