15 Mar
2007
15 Mar
'07
3:23 a.m.
On 15/03/2007 09:34, Rob wrote:
One class of terminal that seems to have disappeared
completely from
history is the viewdata terminal.
Yup. I needed one to access home banking a decade ago, and it wasn't
easy to find one, other than on a BBC Micro or an Archimedes.
I've never seen an emulation that could cope with
the rare case of
"remove the double-height -start-code" properly[1] apart from the one
I wrote, probably because nobody ever thought hard about the
implications of it..
Define "properly" and I'll tell you if mine does :-) Actually some
servers do different things with double-height too. I swiped the code
for my terminal emulation from a program called XBtx, which was meant
for the German Bildschirmtext system. I had to remove a lot of things
and fix a few differences, including IIRC the double-height. One of the
nice things about it, though, is that it's a client/server program, so
my wife could use the client on her SGI Indigo to access the bank system
(HOBS, if you want to know) via my Indy and its modem.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York