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- From: moon!cyberden!phbill@well.sf.ca.us
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
- Subject: Re: I GOT A DUMB TERMINAL!!!!
- Message-ID: <ouw3PB7w165w@cyberden.uucp>
- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 92 13:16:47 PDT
- References: <1992Aug24.104044.24527@merk.com>
- Organization: Indescribable Creations
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- winston@merk.com (Winston Smith) writes:
-
- >
- > About the discussion of how to turn a dataterminal such as a VT101 into
- > a "slaved" monitor screen that displays your ATARI 6502 8-BIT's output....
- >
- > I am not sure I follow this exactly. I take an RS-232 line from my 8-bit
- > and run it to the bi-directional communications port on the VT101 or similar
- > dataterminal... but my modem is usually attached to my RS-232 line. How
- > would I now talk to my modem? Do I attach the modem to the dataterminal's
-
- Well.. the way I've done it is hook up the 8-bit via SIO to my SX212 (it
- has both an SIO port and an RS232 port.) From there, I connect the VT101
- MONSTER to the RS232 port. If you could disconnect some pins here and
- there (to keep echoing from happening), you could xfer data between an
- RS232'd system and an Atari 8-bit with only one modem (but it HAS to be
- the SX212, unfortunately.. It has only 1200 baud... UNfortunately...)
-
- it was fun screwing with the working VT-101 that I got set up, but it
- takes up SOO much room, and even tho it's convinient to have the 8-bit
- running something other than a terminal while I'm online, it gets
- confusing.
-
- I'm glad I didn't spend any money ;)
-
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- August 25, 1992
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