LYMAN@IASSNS.BITNET (01/09/87)
I was recently given an old Apple ][+ which I want to use as an intelligent
terminal (as well as file storage, game player etc.) and I am trying to
optimize the choice of serial bd/modem/software or internal modem/software
subject to the constraints:
1. I would like it to go at least 1200 baud (I already have a Hayes
Micro-modem with software at 300 baud.
2. It should "know about" my Sup 'R' Terminal board.
3. It should emulate a screen-oriented terminal of some sort. VT100
would be lovely, but I am willing to settle for the likes of a
VT-52. Anything as long as it will run a screen editor, and is in
the Berkeley UNIX termcap file.
2400 baud would be ideal, as would the option of cabling it direct at
9600, but I'm willing to forgo that. Also I really need a KERMIT
protocol. (I am trying to load the one that appeared on this list,
but I have a bootstrap problem. The chance of loadsing the files without
errors approximates 0 to the best of the IEEE standards.
I have found a dazzling array of hardware, and a non-dazzling array of
software available commercially, and computer salesmen who think of
computers as one walking spreadsheet, and who think that KERMIT is a muppet.
HELP!
Lyman Hurd
P.S. I have some resources, but I am juggling this, a spouse and 2 kids on
a student budget. In any case, I am going by the theory that I don't want
to exceed the replacement value of the machine.