17 Jan
2012
17 Jan
'12
7:11 a.m.
On 2012-01-17 07.58, Eric Smith<eric at brouhaha.com> wrote:
Jonathan Katz wrote:
No.
The VT62 use a normal RS-232 serial asynch line, sending and receiving
bytes just like any other plain terminal.
It really is just an improved VT52, adding a reverse video attribute.
I had one, which I used for about 15 years. It's still around, but I
more or less donated it to a computer club.
If you want to hook it up to your Unix system, just go ahead. No
problems. However, unless you create a termcap entry, you'll probably be
stuck with the VT52 entry, which means you won't see any reverse video
stuff anywhere, since I don't think any termcap/terminfo databases I've
seen ever had the VT62.
Johnny
So there isn't an RS-232 or similar off the
back and you can't just
jack it into your Linux box?
I think it uses some kind of multidrop signalling rather than EIA-232.
Even if it uses EIA-232, it's still not going to be much use on a Linux
box, unless you write Linux software that knows how to talk to it. It
is a block-mode terminal, not character mode. It doesn't send one byte
over a serial port every time you hit a key, and it doesn't display a
character each time a byte comes in. Trying to use it on a serial line
with a getty process would be an exercise in futility.