On 16/04/2018 20:38, Jan Panteltje wrote:
> On a sunny day (Mon, 16 Apr 2018 19:40:17 +0100) it happened Gareth's
> Downstairs Computer
>    wrote in
> :
>
>> I wonder if anyone has implemented a blinkenlights
>> interface for the RPi, so that one is not reliant on the
>> complexity and reliability of VDU monitors, mice and
>> keyboards?
>
> What do you nean by 'blinkenlights'?
> You can hang anything you like on GPIO (with proper hardware driver).
>

Was brought up on PDP11 and PDP8 and miss the ability, on the few
occasions when necessary, to drill right down to the machine
itself. Blinkenlights  is a (fairly standard in alt.folklore.computers)
reference to a front panel with binary lamps and switches.

What I anticipate is using one Pi to drive the JTAG on another.

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