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From: prindle@nadc
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Subject: re: vt100 terminal emulator
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Date: Tue, 19-Nov-85 09:41:08 EST
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From: prindle@NADC

A company called Viewdata supposedly sells a vt100 emulator for the C64.  The
price is right ($2.50)(!).  This includes an hour of time online for the
Viewtron on-line service.  I should be getting mine in a week or so (4 wks
delivery) and will let this list know if it is for real and how faithful to
vt100 protocol it is (for $2.50, I'm not expecting much, but then again,
Viewdata is taking a loss on the software just to get more users on line, so
it could be very good.  The phone number to order the "starter kit" is
1-800-543-1300, Dept 9182 (it's an ordering service, not Viewdata).  Viewdata's
customer service number, for more details I suppose, is 1-800-VIEWTRON.
Actually, a VT100 emulator is not much of a step up from a VT52 emulator, since
neither terminal supports insert line, delete line, delete character, or
character insert; these are the features which substantially improve a terminal
emulation, and would be found in a VT132, etc. type emulator.