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- From: ostroff@oswego.Oswego.edu (Boyd Ostroff)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple,comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Terminal Emulator for Apple //e
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.212736.20856@oswego.Oswego.EDU>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 21:27:36 GMT
- Sender: news@oswego.Oswego.EDU (Network News)
- Reply-To: ostroff@oswego.Oswego.edu (Boyd Ostroff)
- Organization: Instructional Computing Center, SUNY at Oswego, Oswego, NY
- Lines: 32
- Originator: ostroff@cloy.oswego.edu
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- We have an 128K Apple //e (and also a 256K memory card if that matters)
- with duo-disk and monochome monitor. Since it is not seeing any productive
- use I was hoping to use it as a terminal emulator.
-
- Now I don't use Apple II's anymore, but I used to, and even bought one of
- the very first. Anyway, I have an old emulator called "Pro Term" and
- when I tried using it with the //e at 9600 baud it was pretty worthless.
- The first line or two of output was fine, then as it continued down the
- screen more and more characters were missing until it degenerated into
- complete gibberish. Evidently the //e and Super Serial Card just can't
- handle 9600 baud.
-
- Next I tried it at 2400 baud. The results here were a little better, but
- there were still characters dropped. Also, the emulator does not support
- vt100 and the vt52 emulation didn't work quite right with my unix termcap.
-
- So is there any hope for using the //e as a vt100 (or anything in /etc/termcap)
- at 9600 baud? Is this just asking too much from the good ol' 6502? I
- have an old (DOS 3.3 ?) version of Apple II Kermit, but I couldn't get
- it to work at all.
-
- I really hate seeing this machine gathering dust and we could use another
- terminal, but it has to be 9600 baud capable to hook directly into the
- campus data system. I'd appreciate e-mail from anyone with experience in
- this area. If there are newer versions of Kermit for ftp, please explain
- how to convert them to Apple II format once I download them, since I'm
- not familiar with getting Apple II binaries off the net. Thanks!
-
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