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- From: moon!cyberden!phbill@well.sf.ca.us
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
- Subject: I GOT A DUMB TERMINAL!!!!
- Message-ID: <y5wVPB2w165w@cyberden.uucp>
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 18:39:45 PDT
- Organization: Indescribable Creations
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- Hey everyone! My friend's dad owns a company that produces networking
- hardware and had bought a ton of old equipment for $cheap$ from a
- wherehouse and is now dumping it all. So I got to look through the stuff
- and just figured out that one of the things I picked out (look like a
- monitor) is a VT-101 dumb terminal! (I hope I'm right!!) We plugged it
- in and all that was on the screen was a blinking 80 column cursor, but I
- bet if I hook my SX212 up to it via the RS232 I'll be online with the
- thing! (I also need a keyboard, but that's been promised to me as well.)
-
- The thing is (if any of you can help me out on hooking it up.. dont wanna
- blow myself to peices ;) ) a Qume model QVT-101. It has a base with a
- brightness knob on the front, and on the back a power switch, fuse, and
- two 25-pin RS232 ports- one labeled "AUX" and the other "EIA." I suppose
- it would only take a little guessing as to what goes where, but I THINK
- that the "EIA" is for keyboards.
-
- Now for the problem (other than where to PUT it!!?!?!?!). Since it has
- no drives and seems to simply be a monitor that you stick a modem and a
- keyboard into, I'll still need my Atari and good ol' BobTerm to do file
- xfers. I'm wondering if I can have BOTH the RS232 port AND the SIO port
- in at the same time. Would this short any of the 3 components out!?!?
-
- Well, any info. on this here junked (but working) Qume "QVT-101" would be
- MUCH appreciated, esp. info. on hooking it and the SX212 up together.
- (there's no way for BOTH the Qume and the Atari to talk to the modem at
- the SAME time, is there!!?!?!?)
-
- Thanx in advance. Happy happy joy joy! I gotta dumb term!!
-
- ___________________________ ||| __ PhBill @ Cyberden (+1 415 472-5527)
- PhBill: Bill Kendrick / | \ San Rafael, California, U.S.A.
- moon!cyberden!PhBill@well.sf.ca.us (North of San Francisco)
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- August 21, 1992
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