22 May
2012
22 May
'12
1:58 p.m.
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 3:50 PM, ben <bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca> wrote:
On 5/22/2012 1:03 PM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
Since the VIC-20 does have a ROM-supported bit-banger TTL serial port
(easy to attach a 300 baud VIC-MODEM or an RS-232 level shifter to),
it _is_ feasible. The terminal program that comes on cassette with
the VIC-MODEM is kinda crappy, but it's not hard to whip up a VT-52
emulator in BASIC...
22x23 - makes the C-64 look refined by comparison.
-ethan
So who's going to
claim they read
mail on a VIC-20?
-ethan
That I could see, with the VIC 20 as dumb terminal to larger system.