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From: ciaraldi@cs.rochester.edu (Mike Ciaraldi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Modem communications on an 800
Message-ID: <6548@sol.ARPA>
Date: 5 Feb 88 03:01:18 GMT
Reply-To: ciaraldi@cs.rochester.edu (Mike Ciaraldi)
Organization: U of Rochester, CS Dept, Rochester, NY
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Keywords: 800 VT100


I'm trying to help someone out, so bear with me if I
mess up on some details.  I've only talked to him on the phone,
I haven't even seen his system.

This guy has an Atari 800 with a hard disk (don't know the brand).
He wants to use it to talk via modem to a VAX and emulate
a VT100 terminal.  So, he has the following questions:

1)  How do you connect a modem to an 800?  Isn't there a
    built-in serial port of some kind?  Can you use this for a
    modem, or is it needed for disk or printer communication?
    If not, can you add a serial port easily?  We would need
    at least 1200 baud.

2)  Can you get an 80-column by 24-line display on 800?
    Do you need an add-on board?  Where do you get one?
    (no Atari dealers in town anymore, I think).

3)  Assuming you can do the above stuff, is there software to emulate
    a VT-100 terminal?  It would be nice if it could also
    dump the screen to disk and/or printer on operator request.
    If not Vt-100, how about some other terminal (other than
    a "glass TTY" with no cursor control at all!).

I hope someone can tell me if any of what we want to do is possible.
Or not, if that is true.

Thanks,

Mike Ciaraldi
University of Rochester Computer Science

Internet:  ciaraldi@cs.rochester.edu
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