18 Feb
2008
18 Feb
'08
10:33 p.m.
Richard wrote:
In article <47B970A0.29790.152D979C at cclist.sydex.com>,
"Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com> writes:
I'd be interested to read that too, interesting that it responds to ESC
codes at all.
I remember when I worked on it as a kid there seemed like a lot of
connections to the DB25 .. didn't know much about the RS232 control
signals at the time, but wondered just how sophisticated it got in
managing them.
IIRC, the terminal was very "dumb".
I found an online manual via archive.org and yes indeed it is quite
dumb. However, it does seem to have the concept of protected and
unprotected character cells, which seems pretty advanced considering
how primitive the rest of the ESC sequence support is on this
terminal. Then again, it seems to either predate or be concurrent
with the VT100 which seems to have raised the bar for what people
expected from a CRT terminal.