[Coco] Terminal Emulator

[gene heskett]

On 4/24/25 15:35, John Mark Mobley via Coco wrote:
> All
>
> I am trying to use V-Term (a VT-100 terminal emulator) with my CoCo 3.
> The keyboard on the CoCo 3 is missing some keys like the pipe key "|".
> V-Term has macro keys, but I do not know how to add the pipe "|" key.
> Is there a way to do this or a Linux work around?
> Is there a manual for V-Term?
>
> -John Mark Mobley

There was another well written VT-100 I used heavily for several years 
as a PDP 11/23 terminal, but had to make it understand VT-220 stuff, 
piece of tasty cake I did in about 30 minutes because it was so well 
written OOTB. The author IIRC, is Brian Marquette.

The H.O.T. failed in the original VT-220 and DEC wanted $5000 and change 
for a VT-550 and could not, would not tell me if it would work with 
their PDP-11/23's.

Now you know why DEC is no more, their field engineers could not fix it 
when it turned into a silent crasher and they claimed at the time they 
had changed everything but the frame rail with its registration number.

So because we weren't switching sat channels to carry commercials for 
our market, we were taking a $$$$ hit for airing the wrong commercials.  
So I had the tech in NYC send me his test mule, and I sent him the 
crashomatic. He had the clout to handle the paperwork.  By then it was 
under a half hour of uptime per reboot and since that was now his test 
mule, and the DEC people in NYC could not fix it, CBS had to buy enough 
industrial IBM's with an ARTIC card and write a new program for them for 
every CBS affiliate in the country.

If enough folks are interested, I have my old office coco3 and might be 
able to find and upload it someplace.  If I can get the 10 meg tandon hd 
started after sitting for 23 years. If it survived this winters flooded 
basement. Another UNK. I haven't looked.

Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET.

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