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From: japullin@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Pullin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: NEC 8501 as terminal
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Date: 14 Jan 90 16:17:09 GMT
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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