Hello,
once I get the power supply fixed, I will happily return to my Visual
603: when it came out, the DEC equivalent would have been a VT220, and
the emulation is good. I have never seen any problem with compatibility.
White phosphor, Keyboard layout as a LK201. The keyboard has its stands
permanently attached like a LK401, not pluggable like a LK201.
The terminal does Tektronix graphics, and as opposed to a VT240,
provides a good picture (the VT24x only look good in ReGIS mode). A zoom
mode would have been nice, as in a Selanar HiREZ or Tektronix 41xx
terminals.
Though undocumented, the Visual 603 can also handle a TeX previewer that
generates Sixel output for VT24x. Maybe the GIF viewer mentioned earlier
would also work.
The terminal uses a 68000 processor and has three applications in local
ROM: a calendar, an alarm clock, and a calculator. The figures in the
"display" of the calculator can be sent to the host as if you typed
them. Now if the calculator only had a hex mode...! ;-)
Further, there is an optional permanent clock display in the status
line. I used to have little programs on TOPS-10 (MACRO-10), VAX/VMS
(DCL) and RSX-11 (MACRO-11) download the current time into the terminal
upon login.
Drawback: the terminals seemed to be too cheap, i.e. some components
would go bad faster than you expect from real DEC stuff. Of the four
devices I ever touched, three were gone within about two years. Mine was
the only surviver. I didn't turn it off in the evening, that's the only
difference in handling that I know of. One of the others let out the
magic smoke with a clearly audible sound that I would estimate to
several kV. Luckily, this was within the warranty period.
My device died silently, and currently behaves as if the power plug had
been pulled. Unfortunately, I have no experience with switch-mode power
supplies. Apparently, no blown fuses. Startup resistor, perhaps?
Regards,
Andreas
emanuel stiebler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> what is THE favorite terminal you folks here use ?
>
> Now I have all this nice VTxxx I ever wanted, but they always
> miss the graphics capabilities, I had on my terminals in the office.
> (not talking about GUIs, just few nice lines on the screen)
>
> So, is there something like emulating VTxxx (52,100,200,320,340) and
> tektronix ? (probably even 38400 baud ?
>
> I really like to talk about terminals, not software for PC's
> emulating those ...
>
> cheers & thanks
--
Andreas Freiherr
Vishay Semiconductor GmbH, Heilbronn, Germany
http://www.vishay.com
Received on Mon Oct 14 2002 - 14:03:13 BST