[Coco] VCC Experience

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 25 May 2014 22:02:28 Bill Nobel did opine
And Gene did reply:
> Oh I do have both, just can’t remember which is the better for vt100.
> 
> BillNobel

If you want a slightly later, 8 bit rendition of vt100, there is a vt220 
on my web page.  It uses some of the upper half of the ascii mapping to 
handle the escape codes, or it will respond in kind to the normal esc 
whatever codes transparently.  AND IIRC the last mods I made to it were 
add the rz/sz trigger and responses, so it now handles rz and sz file 
moves transparently.

It got modified by me so I could emulate a failed DEC VT-220 when I found 
DEC no longer had any VT-220's to replace the one that smoked its HOT ( 
and no HOT's were available as service parts either) after less than 7 
years of service, and the only thing they had at the time was the VT-550, 
priced at $3900 dollars, and no one at DEC could tell me if it was 
compatible to the VT-220.  And it was a non-returnable sale even if it 
didn't work.  Hello! I wasn't about to gamble $3900 on a pig in a poke.

Just one of the reasons DEC went belly up.  We had service contracts on 
the PDP-11/723A, but their field service techs changed everything in it 
but the frame rail carrying the serial number without any noticeable 
effect on its 20x a day crashing.  Eventually Hugo swapped his test mule 
out for mine, which worked well, but then the NYC field techs had no 
better luck fixing it, so CBS had to design and provision all their 
affiliate stations with a whole new kit, cost about 7 grand a station.

Anyway, this VT-220, running on my office coco3, handled the switching 
schedule and movements of the dish itself on cue, keeping the schedule up 
to date in the PDP's drive.  Worked great when it wasn't crashed. 

Brian Marquette wrote some pretty solid code when he did the VT-100, 
patching it to do the 220 too was a piece of cake.
 
> On May 25, 2014, at 7:56 PM, Bill Pierce via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com> 
wrote:
> > Bill, Supercomm should be on the VHD you have.
> > 
> > 
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> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bill Nobel <b_nobel at hotmail.com>
> > To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> > Sent: Sun, May 25, 2014 9:44 pm
> > Subject: Re: [Coco] VCC Experience
> > 
> > 
> > Hmm, I have to break out the Supercomm now (or was it OSterm?) To use
> > Telnet now.
> > 
> > Bill Nobel
> > 
> > On May 25, 2014, at 5:43 PM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Yep, all of the /n devices have a "virtual modem" behind them that
> >> understands all of the standard Hayes AT commands.  This lets you
> >> use /n as a direct replacement for standard serial devices in any
> >> OS9 telecom programs (terminal emulators, BBSes, UUCP, etc have all
> >> been tested with good results).
> >> 
> >> On May 25, 2014 7:40 PM, "Bill Nobel" <b_nobel at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >>> Are you serious?  I never would of thought that, but thinking about
> >>> it. DW4 is a serial protocol on a virtual serial port.
> >>> 
> >>> Bill Nobel
> >>> 
> >>> On May 25, 2014, at 5:29 PM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>> On May 23, 2014 10:47 PM, "Bill Nobel" <b_nobel at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>> Well, after a little makefile searching, I found what I needed. 
> >>>>> I
> >>> 
> >>> played
> >>> 
> >>>> with telnet to my raspberry pi,  for a bit, works good except
> >>>> vt100 codes are coming through so ‘ls' breaks telnet with error
> >>>> 208.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Using a terminal emulator works better.
> >>>> 
> >>>> Supercomm is in the nitros9 project and works well.   Start it
> >>>> with /n as an argument, I.e.:  supercomm /n
> >>>> 
> >>>> Then use the DW Hayes AT commands to connect:  ATD1.2.3.4:5678
> >>>> 
> >>>> That way you'll get reasonable ansi/vt100 terminal emulation and a
> >>> 
> >>> channel
> >>> 
> >>>> where control codes won't cause issues.  Any terminal program
> >>>> should
> >>> 
> >>> work.
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