19 Sep
2013
19 Sep
'13
3:44 p.m.
What options do I have these days of Tektronix terminal emulation that
supports color graphics, like the 4206? xterm's Tektronix support is only
for the 4014. Any suggestions would be welcome.
Thanks,
Kyle
21 Sep
21 Sep
6:32 a.m.
On 2013-09-20 00:44, Kyle Owen wrote:
What options do I have these days of Tektronix
terminal emulation that
supports color graphics, like the 4206? xterm's Tektronix support is only
for the 4014. Any suggestions would be welcome.
Write your own ;-)
Seriously, I tried 10 years ago "reflection" from attachmate (was WRQ
back than?) and they had Tektronix emulation in it.
I tried the demo ...
6:44 a.m.
On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 2:32 PM, emanuel stiebler <emu at e-bbes.com> wrote:
On 2013-09-20 00:44, Kyle Owen wrote:
way back it was VT220
Reflection 2 user manual VT220
Walker Richer & Quin Inc Febuary 1986
have the disks, never run it
Dave Caroline
What options do I have these days of Tektronix terminal emulation that
supports color graphics, like the 4206? xterm's Tektronix support is only
for the 4014. Any suggestions would be welcome.
Write your own ;-)
Seriously, I tried 10 years ago "reflection" from attachmate (was WRQ back
than?) and they had Tektronix emulation in it.
I tried the demo ...
On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 2:32 PM, emanuel stiebler <emu at e-bbes.com> wrote:
On 2013-09-20 00:44, Kyle Owen wrote:
What options do I have these days of Tektronix terminal emulation that
supports color graphics, like the 4206? xterm's Tektronix support is only
for the 4014. Any suggestions would be welcome.
Write your own ;-)
Seriously, I tried 10 years ago "reflection" from attachmate (was WRQ back
than?) and they had Tektronix emulation in it.
I tried the demo ...
6:49 a.m.
On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 7:32 AM, emanuel stiebler <emu at e-bbes.com> wrote:
On 2013-09-20 00:44, Kyle Owen wrote:
Just realized I mistyped: I meant the 4205/4207. I don't think there's such
a thing as the 4206. I think even a 4105 has basically the same
functionality.
Were there other similar terminals back in the day that were compatible?
Maybe someone has written an emulator for one of those that could work.
Kyle
What options do I have these days of Tektronix
terminal emulation that
supports color graphics, like the 4206? xterm's Tektronix support is only
for the 4014. Any suggestions would be welcome.
Write your own ;-)
Seriously, I tried 10 years ago "reflection" from attachmate (was WRQ back
than?) and they had Tektronix emulation in it.
I tried the demo ...
8:30 a.m.
On 9/19/13 3:44 PM, Kyle Owen wrote:
What options do I have these days of Tektronix
terminal emulation that
supports color graphics, like the 4206? xterm's Tektronix support is only
for the 4014. Any suggestions would be welcome.
"Tektronix terminal emulation that supports color graphics" covers a pretty wide
range of products.
I would be VERY surprised if there were free 42xx emulators, since they had pretty
sophisticated instruction sets.
Do you have an application you'd like to run that was written for those, or just
looking for something
capable of displaying graphics in color? You might have better luck finding something for
the 402x series, which
is MUCH simpler.
I guess I should look for docs on the 42xx, just noticed I don't have anything on
them. Even the 41xx programming
and service info was tough to find.
8:55 a.m.
I would be VERY surprised if there were free 42xx
emulators, since
they had pretty sophisticated instruction sets.
I thought perhaps I should take this as a challenge (I have my own
terminal emulator and wouldn't be averse to adding another emulation to
it). You also wrote
I guess I should look for docs on the 42xx, just
noticed I don't have
anything on them. Even the 41xx programming and service info was
tough to find.
so I went looking for that. But ftp.bitsavers.org seems to treat
"anonymous" like an ordinary username rather than doing anonymous FTP,
making it, ah, "difficult" to fetch anything.
Am I doing something wrong?
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9:12 a.m.
On 9/21/13 8:55 AM, Mouse wrote:
But ftp.bitsavers.org seems to treat
"anonymous" like an ordinary username rather than doing anonymous FTP,
making it, ah, "difficult" to fetch anything.
There is no anonymous ftp on bitsavers, since I don't control the machine it is hosted
on.
23 Sep
23 Sep
1:17 a.m.
On Sat, 21 Sep 2013, Mouse wrote:
so I went looking for that. But ftp.bitsavers.org
seems to treat
"anonymous" like an ordinary username rather than doing anonymous FTP,
making it, ah, "difficult" to fetch anything.
Am I doing something wrong?
Use our mirror, it does anonymous FTP besides HTTP, too.
Christian
25 Sep
25 Sep
2:35 p.m.
In article <523DBB8B.2030001 at bitsavers.org>,
Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> writes:
I would be VERY surprised if there were free 42xx
emulators, since they had
pretty sophisticated instruction sets.
4105 and 4205 pretty much have the same instruction set, but the
capabilities of the 4205 were extended in terms of numbers of colors
and some of the more fancy options.
If you look carefully at the ESC sequences, the 410x and 420x
terminals are basically the GKS standard in firmware.
The way most people used these terminals was to use a GKS
implementation that supported the terminal. For instance, DEC GKS
supported the Tektronix 4107 which is pretty similar to the 4105 but
with a larger screen resolution.
I guess I should look for docs on the 42xx, just
noticed I don't have
anything on them. Even the 41xx programming
and service info was tough to find.
I have documentation for the 4205 and some other terminals. Its in my
queue to scan.
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4:10 p.m.
On 9/25/13 2:35 PM, Richard wrote:
I have documentation for the 4205 and some other
terminals. Its in my
queue to scan.
I turned up a couple of field-level service manuals for the 4208 and 4211 that
I'll try to get scanned this week. The 4211 is pretty fancy, 386sx and 34010 CPUs
7:28 p.m.
In article <52436D53.1020903 at bitsavers.org>,
Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> writes:
I turned up a couple of field-level service manuals
for the 4208 and 4211
that I'll try to get scanned this week. The 4211 is pretty fancy,
386sx and 34010 CPUs
Sweet!
<http://terminals.classiccmp.org/wiki/index.php/Tektronix_4208>
<http://terminals.classiccmp.org/wiki/index.php/Tektronix_4211>
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2:39 p.m.
In article <CAKtEYUzHGKoy-Ju-HmRV7dyCAHn_eTP9xLyhrihFWs8aNAE9Hg at mail.gmail.com>,
Kyle Owen <kylevowen at gmail.com> writes:
What options do I have these days of Tektronix
terminal emulation that
supports color graphics, like the 4206? xterm's Tektronix support is only
for the 4014. Any suggestions would be welcome.
Also, if you are only interested in color text, Tektronix terminals
can be put in ANSI mode where they recognize the ANSI escape sequences
for text colors.
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