Liberty / Morrow BT1200A-1 review (SMK J-M0404 vintage linear)

[Chyros]

Today we finally look at SMK vintage linears! This handsome-looking beast from 1983 is quite a cool specimen. Hope you enjoy the video!

[Engicoder]

When it passed through my hands, I took a peek and if I remember correctly, this used a simple serial protocol that sent ASCII character codes. This was pretty common for basic "dumb" terminals as which relayed ASCII data from the keyboard to the host and displayed ASCII data received from the host.