[Coco] [Color Computer] Telnet program?

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 12 July 2009, KB wrote:
>How can I use it as a terminal? (I refuse to call my baby "dumb", even
> though i know its the correct term)

AIR, when I had to run the vt-220 against an IBM system that was controlling 
our 7 meter network dish, you made sure the /t2 baud rate was correct, hooked 
up a null modem wired rs-232 cable between them, fired up the coco3 into os9, 
ran vt-220, and hit the enter key a couple of times, at which point the IBM 
system asked you for your username and password.  Once logged in, I could do 
that which I had perms to do, which in this case was to maintain the satellite 
location tables and any moves/switches scheduled, the latter on a daily basis.

Eventually there were enough errors that it was prudent to get it a phone line 
& let CBS do all that with their automatic dial-in to update it.  Now of 
course its all buried in the digital data stream from them.

I tried to use the vt-100 program, but it did not use the correct escape 
sequences & couldn't do the job, so when the vt-220 we had died and DEC wanted 
about $1000 for a fresh one, the vt-100 to vt-220 conversion was done on a 
crash basis & I had it working 100% in just a couple of days thanks to truly 
excellent docs in the form of the manual for the vt-220 we had.  Fortunately, 
those escape codes were easy to put into a pair of arrays, and auto-switch 
between them based on the codes the IBM system sent.

Some systems AIR needed a couple of taps on the escape key to wake them up, 
but the IBM I used it against wasn't one of them.  OTOH, its been close to 20 
years since I did that, so CRS has set in. :(

>--- On Sun, 7/12/09, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:



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