[ale] Text Terminals (VT525 or similar)?

JK jknapka at kneuro.net
Fri Jun 15 02:18:56 EDT 2007


Michael B. Trausch wrote:

> On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 14:52 -0600, JK wrote:
> 
> 
>>I have what I believe to be a VT100 in my garage (it's under
>>a bunch of boxes at the moment), which worked (as in, I could
>>log into a Linux box using it) the last time I plugged it in,
>>and which I'm willing to part with for the price of shipping.
>>Not color, though.  If you're interested, I'll dig it out
>>and see if it still works. 
> 
> 
> 
> Does it have the capability to render color as scales of green, beige,
> or white (whatever the primary display color is)?  If so that could
> still be useful.

Don't remember. It's literally been years since I've had it out of
the box.

>  Does anyone know if those support underline and other
> modes off of the top of their heads?  I know that most terminal
> emulators that claim VT100 emulation support these things, but I am not
> sure if that is an "aftermarket" extension or not.

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