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From: marty1@houem.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Terminal emulators for Model III
Message-ID: <779@houem.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 14-Jan-87 12:21:27 EST
Article-I.D.: houem.779
Posted: Wed Jan 14 12:21:27 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 15-Jan-87 22:01:49 EST
References: <8217@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> <2156@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> <359@umnd-cs-gw.umnd-cs.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel
Lines: 36
Keywords: ORCH90, COMPUSERVE, MODEL I/III Disk Compatibility
Summary: discussion response: part question, part request, part offer

In article <359@umnd-cs-gw.umnd-cs.UUCP>, news@umnd-cs.UUCP (news), a.k.a.
rhealey@umn-d-ub.UUCP (Rob Healey), writes:
>    ..... Let's see if we can get some
>    action in this group, it's way too quiet. How 'bout some, legitimate,
>    sources being posted? I have a model 3 terminal program that works
>    with vi and unix, even news. Would anybody be interested in it? Well,
>    enough of me for today,

Should sources be posted to this newsgroup, or is there another place
to put machine-readable (rather than people-readable) messages?

Anyway, three TRS-80's owned by a non-profit organization are sitting
in my basement: (1) a Model III with 48K, limping disks, and RS232,
(2) a Model III with 48K, no disks, and RS232, and (3) a Model 4 with
64K, no disks, no RS232.  I also have a program that makes the 80x24
screen in the 4 accessible to a Model III disk OS, but it doesn't work
reliably with the cassette OS in ROM, and I can't fix it because I
don't have the source.  So I can't use the VT132 terminal emulator,
even if I knew how to move the RS232 hardware from the III to the 4.

The III's run a terminal emulator based on one copyrighted by Ron Bemis
(somewhere in Oregon).  I added the ability to send DEL and BREAK and a
cursor-addressing capability.  I also changed the disk file transfer
capabilities to cassette capabilities (because I didn't get the disks
until later, and haven't had time to put the disk capability back).  I
use it for UNIX(tm) systems and for TSO (yechhh!).  It works with vi
and curses on all the UNIX machines I use, but it can't emulate any
well known terminal because of its 64x16 screen, so I had to write
termcap and terminfo entries for it.

Do I have anything anybody else wants?  Does anybody else have anything
I can use?

M. B. Brilliant					Marty
AT&T-BL HO 3D-520	(201)-949-1858
Holmdel, NJ 07733	ihnp4!houem!marty1