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Retrofitting a Motorola MDT-9100T "Mobile Data Terminal" with a BeagleBone Black

posted by chromas on Wednesday August 08 2018, @12:39PM   Printer-friendly
from the i'm-calling-the-police dept.

canopic jug writes:

Trammell Hudson has written a blog post about his project to retro fit a Motorola MDT-9100T "Mobile Data Terminal" from eBay with a BeagleBone Black running a modern operating system. He figues their retro-future design was too neat to pass up and that the stylish housing combined with an aperture-less amber CRT looks like something slipped from the Fallout or BladeRunner universe into our own. So he and some others at NYC Resistor bought a few and are repurposing them. A lot of soldering and cable smithing is involved.

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  • (Score: 2) by Knowledge Troll on Wednesday August 08 2018, @05:06PM (1 child)

    by Knowledge Troll (5948) on Wednesday August 08 2018, @05:06PM (#718860) Homepage Journal

    I remember CRTs from that era had nasty problems with burn in. That particular CRT didn't seem to show it though.

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  • (Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Wednesday August 08 2018, @07:19PM

    by LoRdTAW (3755) on Wednesday August 08 2018, @07:19PM (#718938) Journal

    I wonder if it has to do with the type of phosphor and beam current required for that particular brightness.