VT terminal emulator suggestions

Glen Slick glen.slick at gmail.com
Wed Nov 5 17:16:55 CST 2008


On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 2:22 PM,  <mark at wickensonline.co.uk> wrote:
> Collective wisdom,
>
> I need a terminal emulator for the DEC VT series of terminals, from VT200 upwards. This is to connect to an OpenVMS box running All-In-1, so it needs to support double width/height characters and be a fairly good emulation. Most 'vt compatible' terminals appear to not be up to the job.
>
> Does any one have any suggestions please? Even better if it supports soft font downloads so I can use APL aswell.
>

I use Kermit 95 2.1.3 to connect to PDP-11's and Vaxen.  It's not free
($75) but there is a 20-day demo version you can try and see if you
like it.

http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/k95.html
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/k95demo.html

I think I paid $5 for a shrink wrapped copy at Boeing Surplus a while
back.  Too bad I didn't buy all of the dozen or so copies they had at
the time.


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