Needed - VT terminal

From: John Lawson <jpl15_at_panix.com>
Date: Fri Sep 12 12:27:00 2003

  I use VanDyke's CRT, on a n IBM Thinkpad laptop, as a console for my
11/44.

 I have a few VT220s and a re-badged Televideo VT100 lookalike, but when
I'm just mucking about as a 'single user', then I generally connect the PC
to the PDP via a funky adapter cable I cobbled together one dark and
stormy night.

  BTW: I use pins 2,3 and 7, and map them to the appropriate 9-pin pins on
the laptop side, whose exact pin numbers escape at the moment, but it's
too easy to find them out.

  Until you get a replacement 'tube', perhaps a nice terminal emulator on
your PC or Mac might get you going. There was a long thread recently on
Emulators for this purpose - a lot of us here use and like 'CRT', but
there are other products. FWIW, I have *never* had anything other than
horrible experiences with 'Hyperterm' that comes bundled in all Windows,
but YMMV.


 Cheers

John
Received on Fri Sep 12 2003 - 12:27:00 BST