GKS startup on VT340 terminals?

From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis_at_mcmanis.com>
Date: Sun Apr 8 13:27:32 2001

At 10:05 AM 4/8/01 -0600, emmanuel wrote:
>What are you doing with GKS !?!?!

Drawing. ;-)

One of the things I really wanted to do was to get to a point where I could
draw things on my VT340. Now that I've got several I felt for the next VCF
I would put together (for sale) a complete MicroVAX setup (either II or
III) with a VT340 that was set up to run Graphics applications on the VT340
console. VAX BASIC has support for talking to GKS and you can't do space
invaders but you can do interesting things. In particular you can plot data
that is coming in from some other source (like one of those free DATAQ
serial data acquistion dongles). As I have more then enough parts to put
together a MicroVAX II in a BA123 with 8 serial ports it seems like it
could be a system that was both interesting to use and understand, and had
some demonstrable benefit to the spousal unit. (besides a fine coffee table
with air recirculating capabilities)

--Chuck
Received on Sun Apr 08 2001 - 13:27:32 BST