On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 10:55, Ricker, William wrote: > 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.
All you really need is something to slow them down (as most of them depend on baud rate at which you could move data to a vt). Some of them rely on other features that, for example, gnome-terminal does not support, but most of them work fine for me. Use the green-on-black pre-setting for best results in gnome-terminal. This tiny bit of Perl will slow them down for you: http://pleac.sourceforge.net/include/perl/ch01/slowcat > > 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.) In fact, it was the VT100 which cemented the standard. Every 2-bit PC card maker wanted to "embrace" the standard with their own proprietary add-ons, but would discover that everyone was buying the other guy's serial cards because they had to work with VT100s and serial printers. This was in the days before time when IBM was still a big name in PCs, before they were again. -- Aaron Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Senior Systems Engineer and Toolsmith "It's the sound of a satellite saying, 'get me down!'" -Shriekback _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
