[Info-vax] Vax Station 4000 VLC

[Dave Froble]

On 12/25/2018 5:12 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <pvtokq$393$1 at dont-email.me>, Dave Froble
> <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
>
>> Nor is a GUI user interface necessary to have VMS on your desktop.  Use
>> a terminal emulator, or, would you ask for new VT terminals?
>
> I have yet to find an emulator which gets everything right.  Then there
> is the problem of having a proper keyboard.  But VSI have said that they
> will support the on-chip graphics, which is more than enough to run CDE
> or whatever.
>

Got to ask, what emulators have you been exposed to?  The one I use 
gives me whatever I need.  The only issue I've noticed is the function 
key that toggles between overstrike and insert, and ^A does seem to get 
around this.

As for a keyboard, I've got a couple of the keyboards that came with the 
VT500 terminals, and I wish I'd acquired a bunch more when the terminals 
were being replaced.  Also on this subject, do you know of any 
availability of "proper" keyboards?  And isn't this a separate subject?

Note that VSI have not mentioned supplying a "proper keyboard".  So, 
where are you going to get such, regardless of what's sitting on your desk?

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