On 3/10/2017 10:31 PM, Chris Elmquist via cctalk wrote:
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
I like using the laptop as a console because I can log my terminal
session while I'm installing software, etc. Kermit on debian linux
comes without any terminal emulation for some reason. One of the things
that I tried was running kermit inside the xterm window, I was able to
connect to the Vax but was unable to test the graphics portion.
I once had an old laptop that I ran DOS on just to run a PROM
programmer. Wish I still had it.
