On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 2:16 PM, Tapley, Mark via cctalk <[email protected]> wrote: > I have more desire to own systems to play on than I have space or > time.
True for most of us, I suspect. > Addressing the former, I have to say my favorite VT-100-alike is a > Rainbow. One box (plus monitor plus the dreaded LK-201), three functions in > the collection: VT-100 emulation (not perfect but not bad), CPM-80/86 (is > that one or two functions?), MS-DOS 3.11b. I have only recently learned of the built-in VT100 emulation. I'm curious how it's "not perfect". > Having a Rainbow has pretty much forestalled any desire to get a > “real” VT-100 for me. I've had real VT-100s (VT-101s, VT102s...) for quite some time, but because of partial compatibility with other systems (RX50s along with memory map differences) I was never big on running a Rainbow. These days, though, I'm interested in them as CP/M boxes more than running DOS, just because it's trivial to set up a white box to run DOS but there aren't that many kinds of CP/M machines after the S-100 era. So a single box that is itself a decent VT-100 and runs CP/M is suddenly worth some desk space. And because it's my focus, the first thing I want to run on any CP/M box is going to be text adventures (Infocom and Scott Adams for certain). -ethan P.S. - and the same line of reasoning has the VT-180 on my radar but I've never seen one go by close enough or cheap enough to jump on.
