ordy@cwruecmp.UUCP (Greg Ordy) (02/19/84)
A few weeks ago I asked for information regarding vt100 emulators. This article summerizes the replies. I would like to thank those who took the time to send information. List of terminal claimed to be vt100 emulators. AVT Plus $1295 C.Itoh 101 $1000 C.Itoh 101e $XXXX Cobar $1000 DataMedia Excel 12 $XXXX DataMedia Excel 14 $XXXX DEC vt200 $1200 Direct 831 $XXXX Falco (Fame) 100/132 $XXXX Microterm Ergo 301 $700 Qume qv-103 $1000 Teletype 5420 $900 Wyse 75 $800 Zenith Z-29 $650 ------------- The C.Itoh 101 terminal received MANY outstanding recomendations. ------------- The AVT Plus also appears to offer many extra features, however costs more. ------------- The terminal I originally asked about, the TVI 970 got several bad raps. Apparently early versions of the software had problems. No magic cookies, however. I saw it advertised at $910 from MCD Corp, 313-924-1020. ------------- Based upon the comments, and the fact that we have about one dozen Heathkit/Zenith H-19s, we are going to get the Z-29. The only problem appears to be the nonDEC keypad layout, however that seems like something we can live with. ------------- The 'magic cookie' is a 'feature' where one screen position is required to hold video attributes of the next section of screen space. Another space is required to get back to normal. As a result, any section of 'special' characters MUST be surrounded with these spaces. Things don't look right then, and don't line up as expected. Greg Ordy