[Coco] The early days of Hacking and Coding a CoCo Was: Here's a CoCo 1 ...

[Tim Fadden]

On 1/18/2014 5:53 PM, Arthur Flexser wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 12:04 PM, Steve <6809er at srbsoftware.com> wrote:
>
>> And we have a winner!
>>
>> I just used a common data terminal of the time that had a extra keyboard.
>>   (So it setup like a another monitor.)
>>
>> Datasoft got a early version of the EDTASM cart and I patch the to send
>> the CharOut to both the display and the CoCo's serial port.
>>
>> What most people did not know is that EDTASM had it own display drivers
>> that emulate a Terminal.  Why?  Microsoft's EDTASM was design to use a
>> terminal to control the cursor for editing a text line.  So, sending the
>> CharOut to the terminal worked without modifying anything else in EDTASM.
>
> If you weren't using the terminal's keyboard, I'm not clear on how you were
> able to take advantage of those cursor controls in Edtasm.  Wouldn't that
> require inputting escape codes to Edtasm?  Or did your keyboard have a
> processor inside that generated them?
>
> Art
>
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I don't know about edtasm,  But I also used /t2 hooked to a serial line 
that ran out to my garage.  Used to do copier service for Kodak, and 
used Sculptor database to keep my inventory straight. Created a login 
that fired up the database menu system upon logging in. I could do 
searches, and get bin location, prices ,stock quantity, sum of parts 
used, and more  print lists in different formats, backup the database 
etc. Just back my van into the garage, and check my inventory.  Pretty 
slick.

Tim