[Coco] Terminal Program Help

[L. Curtis Boyle]

V-Term under RSDOS did the best VT100 compatible term program that I know of. KBCom under OS-9 was pretty good, too.


L. Curtis Boyle
curtisboyle at sasktel.net



> On Jan 12, 2016, at 10:13 AM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> 
> The only VT100 compatible program I know about is not on a pack, but is 
> an os9 program.  Brian Marquette (IIRC) wrote a vt-100 thing, and when 
> the vt-220 on our pdp-11 system running the 7 meter C band dish in the 
> front yard died, and they (DEC) wanted over $5000 for a then current 
> vt-550, I got desperate, and rebuilt Brians program for vt-220 
> compatibility (piece of cake, all it really needed was an 8 bit serial 
> path), and even added rz/sz automatic file transfers to it sometime 
> later.  Its available on my web page in the signature as vt-220.  The 
> docs aren't all that great, but it was usable against a pdp-11/23 for a 
> couple years at the tv station, until the pdp-11 upchucked.
> 
> Its not a rom-pack, even a vt-100 is too big for that, but it worked for 
> me.
> 
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
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