Vt180, whats the story here?

[This message has also been posted.] First a short summary, Something I have been giving for awhile, I got a free Vt180 terminal. AT least Thats what It says on the front. but on the back on the nameplate it says its aa Vt100-AA! I am wondering if the AVO and the Secondary Processor part (STP) was added later on. It works GREAT as a vt100 but I have ran into a few brick walls trying to find a EK-vt100-UG Vt100 Users Guide. I can order it from Digital/Compaq for $25 but I rather not dip into my grocery money for a technical manual. I have not found out anything on how to set the printer up on it. or how to use the Vt180 part of it. or for that matter, how do I RIP that OUT! if I cannot get a boot disk for it... its worthless anyway. Here is my questions. Please help me best you can here: 1. what is Advanced Video Option (AVO) and how do I use it? 2. If the STP is the VT180 part how do I REMOVE it! *if I want plain Vt100, while maintaining AVO) 3. How do I use a printer on a VT100 and how do I set printer baud rates and parity, Stop bits 3. What are the part numbers for the manuals I need for this sucker? I know of the EK-VT100-UG and the EK-VT100-RC but what do I need for the advanced video option? STP (VT180? part) 4. What is the Graphics option? can I still get one? is that for bit mapped graphics? howis it used? can the graphics be used via Linux with graphics display utility or a plotting program (gnupplot). 5. can any of this info be located on the internet? Do I need to go hungry by ordering over $200 in US dollars worth of manuals (I only get $686 each month due to my legal blindness, that goes for rent, Electric, Gas, phone and food. My rent is $350.00 btw. 6. who has the sticker (in sticker form) that goes on the bottom of the vt100 keyboard showing the setup B screen and I/O toggle possitions. 7. How do I make the Needed cable to connect to the external floppy drive unit? Db37 to Db25? what is the pinouts or wiring to make this cable. 8. Since it has Composite In and Composite out. Does it have a built in genlock allowing me to at least use the Vt100 to do titling and captions; then sending the output to a second Video Recording unit. if titleing is not possible, what is Composite video IN for?? I tried to find this info for over 2 weeks, on Webcrawler, Infoseeek, Lycos, Altavista, Lycos (ftp search), Ask Jeeves, hotbot and what I have gotten is very sketchy at best. All I really NEED at this time is a a copy of the needed manuals in either Postscript or PDF format. or good ole HTML.. Finding the pin outs of the Vt180 cable are non-existant, as is sources of Vt180 boot disk images. While we are on the issue of DEC stuff. Who has the full list of the Control Codes for the Rainbow 100's terminal mode? How come when I fire up CP/M Modem7 or 8? I can use the Previous Screen/Next Screen keys and yet in the ROM Vt100 emulation Neither key works? Is there a good program for CPM 86/80 that allows the use or the extraa keys to be sent to Linux? such as HELP, DO, HOME, Insert, Delete Next Screen and Previous Screen? what is the Ansi codes sent by these keys?? I need something that handles 9600 bps with proper flow control. the "Modem" program for CP/M does NOT seem to work well at 9600 as it drops characters often. -- A pearl of wisdom from the y2K newsgroups: ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Y2K appears to be the Baby Boomers mid-life crisis, and it has the potential to be a dandy. -- Anonymnous -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- B'ichela