A real working VT-100, that's a blast from the past. I hope it's actually a VT-102, that's the sweet spot iirc. I assume you've already found http://vt100.net/ . With a real VT-100, you can watch all the old Christmas Card animations [ http://artscene.textfiles.com/vt100/ ] -- I've seen Perl scripts that help some of these work again, but not all of 'em do.
Coincidentally I went through this Serial Console issue just this weekend ... I needed (or thought I needed?) a serial console to boot an old (and I mean old, 1996) DEC AlphaServer 400 4/233 [http://h18002.www1.hp.com/info/GEA042/GEA042PF.PDF] with a Linux install CD [www.debian.org]. An NCR 3125 (i386 pen table, http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1230402) makes a very bad VT100 emulator, but it's better than nothing. > If you're going to do anything with serial ports, get thee a laplink > cable and a 25 pin gender changer - ie a male-to-male or > female-to-female adapter. Both should be available from any good > computer dealer. Yes, LapLink cables (or similar brands of PC-PC non-networking e.g. WinConnect) are great specs for null-modem cables suitably gendered for PCs. They even usually have the 25-9 pin adapter built in as a triplehead cable or some such. However, you can also stack a nullmodem adapter, some gender-benders, and a 25-9 adapter on a ribbon cable. http://www.pcsforeveryone.com/itemdesc2.cfm?type=p&itmID=178915&ItmSubCa tID=91 > That said, I'm not sure if the vt100 uses normal 25 or 9 pin serial > ports, it's that old. It *is* that old. The VT100 used DB25 with proper DTE gender according to the original standard. (Modems are DCEs, computers and terminals are DTEs, by definition.) You can buy a ready-made 25-9 null-modem cable at better computer stores everywhere. E.g., http://www.pcsforeveryone.com/itemdesc2.cfm?type=p&itmID=178916&ItmSubCa tID=91 But the LapLink style is a better value, since it has more flexibility. -- Bill aka n1vux and [EMAIL PROTECTED] NOT speaking for the firm. _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
