16 Oct
2015
16 Oct
'15
4:14 p.m.
On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 12:02:26PM -0700, Brent Hilpert wrote:
On 2015-Oct-14, at 3:40 PM, Robert Ferguson wrote:
Eventually, we?d like to find or construct some
solution for
mass storage, but we?re still at the point of checking out the VT278 itself.
If you haven't seen them these may be of use.
http://www.chdickman.com/rx02/
(Doesn't have decmate support though shouldn't be too hard to get to
work with the printer port)
https://github.com/drovak/os8diskserver
Found some more info about SETUP mode in the Decmate
System
Architecture manual. Between the idiosyncrasies, I'm beginning to wonder
if there's something funny going on in the keyboard scanning sequence
or keyboard management from the 278, we'll have to investigate the
keyboard communication in more detail.
I pulled mine out and it seems to do the first couple things in that
manual. If you want me to do to specific tests I can.