TI Minicomputer?

From: James B. DiGriz <jbdigriz_at_dragonsweb.org>
Date: Thu Apr 12 15:01:10 2001

On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Mark Gregory wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "McFadden, Mike" <mmcfadden_at_cmh.edu>
> To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
> Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 11:35 AM
> Subject: Re: TI Minicomputer?
>
>
> > I seem to remember
> > that there was a terminal emulation application for the TI-99/4's.
>
> The most common cartridge (oops, sorry, "Solid State Software") based one
> was called Terminal Emulator II. For people with the PEB and disk drive,
> there were much better disk based emulators available.
>
> Cheers,
> Mark.
>

Yes. There were Fast-Term, Mass Transfer, Telco, Term80, Kermit, and also
a P-code terminal emulator (TEP), to name most of the major ones.

The neat thing about TEII protocol was the sound, graphics, file
transfer, and even speech protocols built into it, not that most people
used it much after modems got faster than 300 baud. Aside from Texnet on
the Source, and Ralph Fowler's TIBBS software, few host platforms
supported it for a long time, if ever.

Good old Source. They actually gave you a Primos command line and
compilers and *encouraged* you to use them. They actually paid you if
people ran your code or accessed your databases. Nowadays, you're lucky
to find an ISP that'll let you come anywhere near a shell.

jbdigriz
Received on Thu Apr 12 2001 - 15:01:10 BST