symphony for dot matrix printers

From: Paul Williams <celigne_at_tinyworld.co.uk>
Date: Sun Sep 2 11:52:44 2001

John Allain wrote:
>
> > Get yourself a *real* VT100. Type ESC [ 137 q and start
> > pressing keys. You've got yourself a musical keyboard.
>
> This is fantastic, never heard of it. It's not in the vt100 pocket
> guide for example. Are you sure it wasn't for a custom version?

I'm sure; it's a VT100 bug. You need a standard VT100 with keyclick
turned on. I've only just acquired a VT100 myself and I was playing with
this yesterday. There aren't that many notes available, but I've not yet
determined how many there are.

This trick came from Sloppy's page of VT100 Oddities at
<URL:http://www.rt66.com/sloppy/computers/vt100.html>
Received on Sun Sep 02 2001 - 11:52:44 BST

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