On Thu, 28 Jun 2007, Lubomir Sedlacik wrote:

> you don't install anything on serial terminals.  they are what the name
> suggests, serial terminals.  basically a screen with a keyboard which
> you attach via serial cable to a serial port of another machine.  the
> only software they run is very basic firmware from ROM.

Unless you luck upon a Digital VT103 terminal, it was a VT100 terminal
with a backplane to support an LSI-11.  I owned one for a number of
years.
http://web.archive.org/web/20020910055404/http://www.conknet.com/~w_kranz/pdp11/vt1xx.htm