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From: slsw2@cc.usu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: GIGI????
Message-ID: <1991Mar28.092711.47181@cc.usu.edu>
Date: 28 Mar 91 15:27:11 GMT
References: <5876@tahoe.unr.edu> <1991Mar26.160557.1@vs2.uh.cwru.edu>
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In article <1991Mar26.160557.1@vs2.uh.cwru.edu>, muswick@vs2.uh.cwru.edu writes:
> In article <5876@tahoe.unr.edu>, lsmith@unssun.nevada.edu (The Master) writes:
>> 
>>  I recently purchased a DEC GIGI and Barco monitor, from what I can
>> find out, it has an 8k memory, and will emulate a VT52. Does anybody
>> out there in DEC land know anything about GIGIs? What are they, what
>> were they used for? 
>> 
> 
> Simply a GIGI is very similar to a VT125/VT240 - but the ansi keyboard
> sequences are not the full vt100 setup.

That would be the ANSI *escape* sequences, not the keyboard sequences. The
keyboard is, in fact, a full VT100 keyboard, but the GIGI doesn't recognize
all of the VT100 escape sequences.

The GIGI also has a built-in BASIC interpreter and can therefore be used
as a standalone microcomputer in the manner of the TRS-80 Model I.
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