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 | | From: | Cute Swinger 8\) | | Subject: | Re: Terminal Woes (AlexTel) | | Date: | Tue, 21 Dec 2004 20:24:01 -0500 |
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"Richard S. Shuford" wrote in
message news:rshu_20030624_154545@stratagy.com...
> jakub.dalek(at)utoronto.ca wrote...
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> | I have been having problems setting up, or even acquiring basic
> | information with a terminal, which I want to communicate with Linux.
> | ...
> | I purchased an old terminal from a second hand store a while back,
> | which I used as a telephone. This is a Canadian made AlexTel dumb
> | terminal.
> |
> | From researching the matter I found out the project ALEX was a Canadian
> | project by Bell [Canada], Nortel, and a company from Quebec whose name
> | escapes me. It was meant as a telephone, which is mounted beside the
> | CRT and can input text via a foldable keyboard attached to the bottom
> | of the CRT.
>
> The ALEXtel terminal appears to be one designed for use with Bell Canada's
> "videotex" service, introduced in 1991. It probably understands only the
> graphics-oriented NAPLPS (North American Presentation Level Protocol
> Syntax) protocol, and perhaps only the alphageometrical subset of that.
>
> I suggest that trying to get an ALEXtel unit to communicate usefully with
> Linux is going to be more difficult than you would like. I suggest that
> you look for a different terminal that emulates (or is) a DEC VT100 or a
> successor model. (Other viable types include TVI955, Wyse 50, or ADM-3a.)
>
> Some information on video terminals and connecting terminals to systems
> is here:
>
> http://www.cs.utk.edu/~shuford/terminal_index.html
>
> A collection of ALEXtel terminals has been found useful for artistic
endeavors:
>
>
http://www.sagamie.org/centres_artistes/interaction_qui/forum_info3.html
>
> a discussion of the ALEX service may be found here:
>
> http://www.wlu.ca/~wwwpress/jrls/cjc/BackIssues/16.3/proulx.html
>
> ...RSS
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