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Conference hydra::amiga_v1

Title:	AMIGA NOTES
Notice:	Join us in the NEW conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2
Moderator:	HYDRA::MOORE

Created:	Sat Apr 26 1986
Last Modified:	Wed Feb 05 1992
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	5378
Total number of notes:	38326

4584.0. "Amiga as a remote VT220" by FILTON::FENTON_R (Stop Kidding Yourself) Mon Mar 11 1991 11:54

    I've just got authority to use a terminal for working at home, and I
    want to use the Amiga rather than have another screen cluttering up the
    hovel. I have a VT220 emulator (Smokey I think), and a modem - do I
    just connect up a standard RS232 cable from the Amiga's serial port to
    the modem, open the VT220 window, and off I go? Or is it more
    complicated than that?
    
    All help much appreciated.
    
    -Roger

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
4584.1	Sound good to me!	GOBAMA::WILSONTL	Lead Trumpet (Read that...LEED!)	`Mon Mar 11 1991 12:05`	4
	That's about all you need. That is the way I supported a customer for about a year. Tony
4584.2		BARD::mcafee	Steve McAfee	`Mon Mar 11 1991 12:45`	8
	If you have an A1000, you should make up the cable using instructions posted in this conference. The A1000 supplied +5v on one of the pins so a common ibm pc serial cable will damage the modem and/or amiga. The Amiga 500, 2000, and 3000 all work with a standard serial cable though. -steve
4584.3	modem cable	FILTON::FENTON_R	Stop Kidding Yourself	`Mon Mar 11 1991 13:20`	4
	It's an A500 - I'll use an ordinary cable. Thanks for the help. -Roger
4584.4	A word of caution with ribbon cables	CLO::COBURN	Growing older, but not up...	`Mon Mar 11 1991 20:45`	9
	Just one word of caution - Pins 9 and 10 on the serial port supply +12 and -12 volts so a ribbon cable should remove them - They may damage your modem. None of the standard modem cables (7 or 9 wire) carry pins 9 and 10 however, so you should be OK with a nonribbon cable. John
4584.5	Enlightenment!	FILTON::FENTON_R	Stop Kidding Yourself	`Fri Mar 22 1991 12:49`	13
	Hhmmm. Well no, it isn`t that simple. You have to have a startup-sequence which does all the right things, then a correctly-configured VT200.init file. Once you`ve got THEM all running in sequence etc., THEN it`s quite simple. In fact it`s positively brilliant - better than the real thing, with all its little pull-down windows and so on. The proof of the pudding is that I`m actually typing this lot in on the good old Amiga, miles from anywhere. If anyone as new to all this as me needs any help, you never know, I just might be able to. -Rog