Who got the VT62? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

17 Jan 2012

On 2012-01-17 07.58, Eric Smith<eric at brouhaha.com> wrote:
...
  Jonathan Katz wrote:
   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. 
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