In my college days we had a Harris S200/7 driving this terminal. We used
Fortran and the supplied Plot10 library.
I'm fresh out of both of these now so will have to settle for something
else driving this critter.
I had a stray though about driving this terminal with a Tandy Model 100...
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George L. Rachor Jr. george_at_rachors.com
Hillsboro, Oregon
http://rachors.com
United States of America Amateur Radio : KD7DCX
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Tony Duell wrote:
> >
> > I don't know of any machine that will drive them other Tektronix
> > machines. However there is a Tektronix 4041 for sale on E-bay right
>
> On the hardware side, these Tektronix vector terminals are standard RS232
> devices, and will link to just about anything. On the software side, they
> respond t oa well-documented command set (I must have the info somewhere
> if you can't find it on the web).
>
> I've seen them used with PDP11s and VAXen. I am not sure if they were
> driven by a standard library of routines to do things like draw lines, or
> whether special software was written for every application which
> generated the appropriate characters to send to the terminal.
>
> I'd be suprised if they weren't used with other minis as well...
>
> -tony
>
>
Received on Tue Jul 10 2001 - 16:55:01 BST