I had a toshiba T3100 laptop that was impossibly finicky about what OS it would run (I only sold it off to a collector finally a few years ago).
After hundreds of hours of attempts I managed to get FreeDOS 0.4b to boot up successfully off a 720kb floppy. I tried a ridiculous number of DOSes (including 3.2 that it originally shipped with) and other OSes and THAT version of FreeDOS is the only one that would load for some reason.
Anyways, all that to say I used that laptop for years with a kermit lite client to act as a serial console to some of my ccmp machines (Sparc Station 20 etc). Worked beautifully and gorgeously as that (640x400 orange gas plasma display) .
If you are a fan of old systems and want a nice serial terminal get a t3x00. They arent that expensive and they have a wonderful keyboard and beautiful screens :)
After hundreds of hours of attempts I managed to get FreeDOS 0.4b to boot up successfully off a 720kb floppy. I tried a ridiculous number of DOSes (including 3.2 that it originally shipped with) and other OSes and THAT version of FreeDOS is the only one that would load for some reason.
Anyways, all that to say I used that laptop for years with a kermit lite client to act as a serial console to some of my ccmp machines (Sparc Station 20 etc). Worked beautifully and gorgeously as that (640x400 orange gas plasma display) .
If you are a fan of old systems and want a nice serial terminal get a t3x00. They arent that expensive and they have a wonderful keyboard and beautiful screens :)