Hey Derrick - do you run any form of BSD, or Linux (like Ubuntu, Mint,
Fedora, etc) or anything along those lines?
Pop open a terminal window on your Linux system and work away. Basically
+anything+ you can do in that terminal virtual terminal window (like
navigate the file system, run many programs, including text-based email and
web browsers), you can do on a +real+ physical terminal, like a VT102 etc,
that's connected to your Linux machine via a cable.
FYI, I regularly use a Tandy Model 100/102 as a dumb terminal connected to
a Linux box - in this case, it's a Slackware box, but that doesn't matter.
All of the BSD/Linux OSes handle external terminals in a very similar way.
So if you want to play with terminals, I'd suggest setting up a Linux
machine if you don't already have one.
Does that help? ;-)
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 12:12 AM, R SMALLWOOD <rodsmallwood52 at
btinternet.com
wrote:
There's difference between a computer terminal and
a terminal computer in
my mind.
A computer terminal can be regarded as an I/O device. Keybord in and
screen/printer
out.
A terminal computer usually has local processing and can run stand alone.
For example there were variants of of the DEC VT100 with a LSI 11 cardcage
and integral tape drives.
So take your pick, computer terminals are usually dum I/O devices and
depending on what emulations they support can be conneced to one or more
processors.
Terminal computers have an on board CPU
Rod Smallwood
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From: Derrick Meury <rmx44 at aim.com>
To: cctalk at
classiccmp.org
Sent: Monday, 31 March 2014, 5:39
Subject: old terminal computers.
i have wondered something. do old terminal machines need to be used with
their own server box or can they be used with other machines. also what are
some stuff u can do with an old terminal