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From: lord_zar@ucrmath.ucr.edu (wayne wallace)
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Subject: Re: Geos programming
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Date: 11 Apr 90 06:39:20 GMT
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In article <2187@disk.UUCP> specter@disk.UUCP (Byron Max Guernsey) writes:
>How come noone has written a "Geo-Term" ?? Way back when they had the Geos 
>programming contest from berkley softworks I was sure the winning entry would
>be a "Geo-Term" since geos has tons of fonts and exceelent facilities for that.
>I thought myself, if I were to buy Geos Programmer, I would make a geoterm. But
>unfortunately I didn't buy it (IE no geoterm with neat vt100 stuff and graphics
>plotting) Any idea if one does exist?
>
>Byron Guernsey
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There is one that I know of, actually two. On RUN's Power Pak II, a
Geo-Term 128 and 64 is included. However, the bad news:
no 2400 baud support. 300 or 1200 only(I forget if it allowed variations
like 450, 600 etc baud). As far as I know, It doesn't have vt100 
support, which will make it hard for one to modem in from home to
the school's(or company's) computers and logon without a bunch of useless
keys on the keyboard(ie no |,{,},_,^,etc.) If you only logon to local
boards, I guess it'll serve your purpose.....
Anyone out there wanna take the challenge and program the following ? :
a Term program usable under Geos,
300, 1200, and 2400 baud or better support,
(Desterm lets the 128 use up to 9.6k baud modems! Note: earlier 128s can
only handle 4.8k baud.)
LARGE Phonebook, like 40-60 entries,
switchable character set, ie: Commodore or ASCII keyboard at user's will,
anything else designed to please the many C= users :-)

So, Any of you Geos-gurus wanna take up the challenge?
I'm sticking with vt100-128 til then.....

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