VT340 Emulation

[Wayne S]

We tried to use Reflection 240 on IBM PS/2 machines circa 1990. IIRC, it installed easily w/o needing special drivers. 
For the most part it worked as advertised. We didn't really need Regis graphics so we never tested that out. It's problem was that it was really slow on PCs, much slower than a real VT240 terminal. We were trying to use Dec's "all in one" office automation to do word processing and spreadsheets. It's slowness caused us to abandon it and just use word perfect and lotus 123 instead. FYI, There are reflection manuals on the wayback machine for reference. 


Wayne


> On Jun 18, 2021, at 12:51 PM, Douglas Taylor via cctech <cctech at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> 
> Right, according to the few notes I've seen on the packages currently for sale on ebay.
> 
> I hesitate to buy because I picked up a similar piece of software, Smarterm 240, which seemed to do the desired emulation.  It was old software for DOS, but I have an old DOS machine I use for PUTR I thought I could install it on and be up and running.  It didn't turn out that way because Smarterm wanted a particular video card and driver (which I didn't have, of course).  I didn't find that out until I got the package open and tried installing it.
> 
> I don't know if the Reflection software has any restrictions like that.  The versions I see for sale are for Win3.1 and such, not exactly the heyday of plug and play.  I was hoping to get some guidance from someone who has used the Reflection software on what the actual hardware/software requirements are.
> 
> On a side note, emulating a Tektronix 4010 is apparently free and high quality (see github).  It is the DEC graphics terminals that no one has produced an open source emulation software for, so that's why I am asking this question.
> Doug
> 
>> On 6/18/2021 1:16 PM, Bill Degnan wrote:
>> Reflection 4 should do that, right?
>> Bill
>> 
>> On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 1:15 PM Douglas Taylor via cctech <cctech at classiccmp.org <mailto:cctech at classiccmp.org>> wrote:
>> 
>>    Does anyone have experience with the Reflection software that will
>>    emulate a DEC VT340 color graphics terminal?
>