SIM990/DX10 help?

Yeah, I kind of "figured it out"... poring through README.txt and just noodling around a little bit. So, you extract the disk images and run sim990 (still, from a SSH session via PuTTY): sim990 -m 10 -s 512K -c dx10.cfg Once it starts up, from within that window, I found I could hit Esc (not F10) then "!" and then I got an SCI prompt and a message about the system being uninitialized! I ran a "IS" command as described in Vol. 2 of the DX-10 documentation... this system is pretty easy to use... just filled in the date and ran with defaults otherwise. It churned for no more than 30 seconds and eventually it lands at a QUIT message. I let it sit for a while and once I convince myself it's idle, I try poking at it again... Hit Esc and "!" and I get prompted to sign on to SCI now! I logged in with the username and password given in README.txt (SYS001/SYSTEM). I get the SCI prompt at the console, I can run commands just fine. Cool! So, now that I can use the system from the console, I'm trying to test it with Telnet again, to see if it'll behave differently after the system has been initialized. I find that now when I open Telnet sessions to port 2000, I get a prompt to signon to SCI, which I didn't get before, and if I create a new user account for myself using "AUI" at the console, I can get logged in. After login, I'm at the same menu I saw before, but I still don't get a SCI prompt in the Telnet sessions like I do from the console. I strongly am suspecting it might be an "emulation" issue with the Telnet sessions, where the console is set up as a "TTY" while it is expecting the Telnet sessions to look more like a TI VDT. I'm still poking at it but at this point I'm confident I'll get to the bottom of it... or... I can just use it from the console, failing all else. The scheme used for user accounts in DX10 is bizarre and amusing. It took me a minute to figure out that the user ID /is/ the three digits in the account name and they need to be unique across accounts! LOL Woo hoo! Best, Sean On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 7:04 PM, jwsmobile <jws at jwsss.com> wrote: