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Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text

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On 7/30/2019 8:12 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> 	As a computer user who happens to be blind, one of the
>> most frustrating issues is the fact that except for expensive
>> servers, none of these boxes output any machine readable text
>> when booting up or in setup mode such as when the coin cell that
>> powers the CMOS BIOS gives up the ghost and one needs to do a
>> setup on it, etc.
>
> Actually, cheap little boxes like the BananaPi (and the legion of
> similar SBCs) do output via a serial line, so you might want to try
> that route.
>
> They're also pleasantly low-noise and fairly power-efficient.
>

For a fanless solution the 'apu' from 'pcengines' are not that bad.

--
John Doe

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Easiest way to do VGA to Text "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2019-07-30 19:10 +0200
  Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2019-07-30 20:10 +0200
  Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2019-07-30 20:20 +0200
    Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2019-07-30 20:50 +0200
  Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-07-30 21:20 +0200
    Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2019-07-31 20:00 +0200
      Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-07-31 20:30 +0200
        Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text Doug McGarrett <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> - 2019-07-31 21:40 +0200
          Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-07-31 23:00 +0200
        Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2019-07-31 22:50 +0200
          Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-07-31 23:10 +0200
  Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2019-07-30 21:30 +0200
    Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2019-08-01 19:00 +0200
  Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2019-07-30 23:20 +0200
    Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2019-08-01 19:40 +0200
  Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2019-08-01 19:50 +0200
    Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-08-01 20:20 +0200
      Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text Paul Sutton <zleap@disroot.org> - 2019-08-01 21:40 +0200
      Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2019-08-02 14:50 +0200
    Re: Easiest way to do VGA to Text "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2019-08-02 14:00 +0200

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