To address this application, Hackaday.io user has created a low-cost terminal module for a VGA monitor and a PS/2 keyboard based around an inexpensive STM32F030F4 processor. The serial terminal might seem like a redundant historical footnote when viewed from 2016, but they can still find a use among those working with systems such as small embedded microcontrollers that only possess a serial port. If you are old enough, you may remember electronics magazines of the 1970s and early 1980s publishing terminal designs based entirely on 74 series logic. They didn’t need to contain a microprocessor. Anything that came into the serial port was rendered on the screen, anything typed on the keyboard was sent out through the serial port. A keyboard and a monitor with a serial port on the back that was usually hooked up to a minicomputer or even a mainframe, these were simple devices. A common sight in the days before cheap PCs conquered the world was the dumb terminal.
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