Quite some time ago, someone posted a link to a mini terminal server that came with instructions on writing your own TCP code to access it over the network. If someone (or a team) wanted to write code for that, then we could all buy the same unit and have a working solution.

I remember a discussion from March... smu referred to a unit with sources, but I'm not sure which one he was referring to.

Most of the term servers are expensive. For DIY types, I wonder about the feasibility of combining a multi-serial flash SBC like this
with term server code like this gen't's