28 May
2009
28 May
'09
10:16 a.m.
"Bob Armstrong" <bob at jfcl.com> wrote:
Wanna try it on some special cases that I know most emulators fail? :-)
Johnny
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>bfranchuk
at jetnet.ab.ca wrote:
>...
> >> Just curious... What is the VT-6 kit ?
> ... low cost dumb terminal ....
Dumb !!??!?! Who are you calling dumb ??? :-)
Not so dumb, really - the software team did a great job and the current
firmware does pretty much everything a real VT220 can do. 
28 May
28 May
11:36 p.m.
Johnny Billquist wrote:
"Bob Armstrong" <bob at jfcl.com>
wrote:
Wanna try it on some special cases that I know most
emulators fail? :-)
Well I do ... but not tonight.
Johnny
PS. Still wondering ... did a VT220
work with a PDP8 running OS/8?
I have a problem with bit #8 being set from the PDP.
Ben.
PS... I was going to type OS/9 thinking of the 6809. .
29 May
29 May
5:23 a.m.
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 2:36 AM, bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca
<bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca> wrote:
PS. Still wondering ... did a VT220 work with a PDP8
running OS/8?
Yes. I did it in the 1980s (in large part because the VT220 had 20mA
built-in). I don't remember the terminal settings, though.
What did not work was the VTEDIT TECO macro. There's something
inexact about the VT52 emulation in a VT220. The cheapest solution at
the time was to get a real VT52 (about $50 to buy and $30 to ship).
That's what I did.
If you are just doing rather ordinary things with OS/8, a VT220 should
work just fine.
-ethan
11:39 a.m.
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 5:23 AM, Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:
The cheapest solution at
the time was to get a real VT52 (about $50 to buy and $30 to ship).
That's what I did.
Oh if only I could find a $50 VT52 in this day and age! :^)
Actually, I've never seen one for sale in all the time I've been
interested in old computers (starting in 1993). How common are they
these days? On a scale from "Hen's teeth" to "unobtanium"?
-Seth
11:48 a.m.
On May 29, 2009, at 2:39 PM, Seth Morabito wrote:
I just got two for free, but that was a very unusual case. I'd
say they're pretty tough to find, but not impossible.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
The cheapest
solution at
the time was to get a real VT52 (about $50 to buy and $30 to ship).
That's what I did.
Oh if only I could find a $50 VT52 in this day and age! :^)
Actually, I've never seen one for sale in all the time I've been
interested in old computers (starting in 1993). How common are they
these days? On a scale from "Hen's teeth" to "unobtanium"?
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