14 Jun
2012
14 Jun
'12
7:28 p.m.
Richard,
Actually, the EWS (ELN Workstation Software) is part of a freeware package dec produced
some time ago. But this only matters if you want to use the terminal in x-windows mode,
which I may eventually do. I do have a microvax III system that could supply the OS, but
I haven't gotten that far yet.
The nice thing about the 1300 is that they provided dumb terminal capability as well.
There is a switch on the rear of the unit that allows you to select what personality it
is, graphics or text. Of course, for the time being, I have it being used as a dumb
terminal. My only real issue is that no terminal type seems to work 100% with the unit.
I have tried every available setting, as well as changing baud rates and such, but I
haven't had any luck.
The terminal works, but any escape characters just get printed to the screen. If I set it
to any VT type, at least backspace works.
Kevin
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: DEC VT1300 (VXT1300) manual around
From: legalize at xmission.com
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 10:16:02 -0600
In article <BLU157-W4654E85E7E00A15C8F4256A2F40 at phx.gbl>,
Kevin Reynolds <tpresence at hotmail.com> writes:
Strangely enough, they seem to have everything
EXCEPT the vt1300 :(
The 1300 is very similar to the 1200, but uses a different OS.
You'll need a system that can supply the VAXELN operating system to
the terminal.
This article from Digital Technical Journal describes the X terminals
made by DEC, including the VT1300:
<ftp://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/linux/mips/people/macro/DEC/DTJ/DTJ402/DTJ402PF.PDF>
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