[HECnet] Vt100 tester

----- Original Message ----- | From: "John Wilson" <wilson at dbit.com> | To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE | Sent: Monday, 4 March, 2013 2:44:04 PM | Subject: Re: [HECnet] Vt100 tester | | From: "Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman-" <system at TMESIS.COM> | | >Which tests??? | | The worst one was with the letters going down both margins (part of | set #1). | | >Are Eli Heffron still in biz? | | www.eli.com. I assume it's just "& son" now (Neal Heffron I think? | he was cool). Their *awesome* dusty old shop is long gone (I was | kicked | out of there once in 6th or 7th grade) so I think it's | mail-order-only, | but they have plenty of stuff and their prices are reasonable. | VT520s | for less than my VT100 was!!! Hey, looks like I can get a real DEC terminal for a reasonable price! | | >I've not tried these test on a plain ol' VT100. The oldest kit I've | >used | >was a VT220 and it passes all tests as expected. | | I'm sure the same is true for the author. Who'd think DEC would mess | up | their own compatibility? Plus the tests made no allowance for not | having | the AVO, which the 101 and plenty of 100s didn't. | | Anyway this is going to be OCD heaven -- more pointless details to | obsess | over! And I appreciate the warning to be on the lookout if I ever | lose my | mind and want to add VT220 emulation. I totally would have assumed | it was | just a matter of adding new stuff, not changing the old stuff. | | John Wilson | D Bit | -- Cory Smelosky http://gewt.net Personal stuff http://gimme-sympathy.org Experiments http://dev.gimme-sympathy.org Home experiments