japullin@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Pullin) (01/15/90)
A mail order company is offering the NEC 8401 at $179. A supertwist version (NEC 8501) goes for $ 199. These are Z80 based CP/M machines with no disk drive so they don't seem very useful as computers, but however they come with a built in modem and a telecommunications program, so I thought they could be a good buy to use as a mainframe terminal, and the price is very attractive. Has anyone out there some experience with these machines used as terminals? I am especially interested in knowing if the built in telcom program can have the keyboard configured as to emulate, say a VT100 terminal. Thanks in advance, Jorge Pullin pullin@suhep.phy.syr.edu
silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert) (01/15/90)
In article <1744@rodan.acs.syr.edu> pullin@suhep.phy.syr.edu (Pullin) writes: >A mail order company is offering the NEC 8401 at $179. A supertwist version >(NEC 8501) goes for $ 199. These are Z80 based CP/M machines with no disk drive >so they don't seem very useful as computers, but however they come with a >built in modem and a telecommunications program, so I thought they could be >a good buy to use as a mainframe terminal, and the price is very attractive. > >Has anyone out there some experience with these machines used as terminals? >I am especially interested in knowing if the built in telcom program can >have the keyboard configured as to emulate, say a VT100 terminal. If I am not mistaken, this is very similar to the Radio Shack model 100. If so, they work fine as a terminal, but not as a VT100, since the screen is smaller. The m100 has 8 lines of 40 characters. I often use mine as a terminal when I travel, but not for programs that expect a full-sized screen. If you get one, I can send you the termcap entry. -- Bill Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division. Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Dartmouth, NS, Canada B2Y 4A2 UUCP: ...!{uunet,watmath}!dalcs!biomel!bill Internet: bill%biomel@cs.dal.CA BITNET: bill%biomel%dalcs@dalac