On March 9, 2017 9:00:43 PM CST, Douglas Taylor via cctalk
<[email protected]> wrote:
>I'm trying to return to the computing days of yesteryear when people
>hooked graphics terminals to VAXes.
>
>I don't have a Tektronix graphics terminal but I do have a MicroVax II
>and a laptop running Debian Linux. Up to now I've been using the
>laptop
>as a console device and connecting to the Vax using minicom. I thought
>
>that the laptop would be a natural as a Tektronix type terminal.
>
>On the MicroVax I have just started with PGPLOT and MIIPS, which are
>scientific plotting packages that run on Vaxes.
>
>I would like to use the laptop to emulate a Tek terminal connected to
>the Vax through a serial port, but there doesn't seem to be anything
>available to do that. Does anyone know of such a thing?
>
>Doug
If you're not wedded to Linux on the laptop, MSDOS Kermit will do pretty good
DEC VT-{many} and TEK4014 emulation and would be "period correct" for use with
your VAX :-)
Chris
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Chris Elmquist
