BASIC Terminal Programs for TRS-80?
Nicholas Clark
I,IV,or 100) to act as a serial terminal? Thanks!
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Nicholas Clark <sko...@home.com> wrote in message
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> Are there any BASIC programs out there that can allow a TRS-80 (model
> I,IV,or 100) to act as a serial terminal? Thanks!
>
I'm not sure, but what about kermit?
Bruce Tomlin
> Are there any BASIC programs out there that can allow a TRS-80 (model
> I,IV,or 100) to act as a serial terminal? Thanks!
If you don't mind 300 baud, maybe. The III and IV may have had
interrupt-buffered serial drivers, but BASIC is so slow on those machines
that you will lose characters constantly. Look for a program called
STERM, I used that a lot back in the day. (And if the I/III/IV doesn't
have a disk drive, just forget about the idea completely.)
The 100 has a built-in terminal program. You still don't want to send a
sustained 9600 baud to it.
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Stan Barr
>Are there any BASIC programs out there that can allow a TRS-80 (model
>I,IV,or 100) to act as a serial terminal? Thanks!
>-Nick
>Fear is the path to the spoon side of the spork.
If you run LDOS, I seem to remember it comes with a term prog - wasn't it
called LCOMM or something?
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Nicholas Clark
terminal program, or how to access it? telecom is a modem terminal program,
but what I need is to go over the RS-232. Can you help me with that?
>===== Original Message From bruce+...@NOSPAMfanboy.net (Bruce Tomlin)
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>In article <39751C0E...@home.com>, Nicholas Clark <sko...@home.com>
wrote:
>
>> Are there any BASIC programs out there that can allow a TRS-80 (model
>> I,IV,or 100) to act as a serial terminal? Thanks!
>
>If you don't mind 300 baud, maybe. The III and IV may have had
>interrupt-buffered serial drivers, but BASIC is so slow on those machines
>that you will lose characters constantly. Look for a program called
>STERM, I used that a lot back in the day. (And if the I/III/IV doesn't
>have a disk drive, just forget about the idea completely.)
>
>The 100 has a built-in terminal program. You still don't want to send a
>sustained 9600 baud to it.
>
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Skipp
I don't know about basic, but there's a program called modem80 that runs
real well on a disk system. There are some cassette based terminal
programs that came under labels like vidtex and that sort of junk.
cheers
sk...@pilot.ucdavis.edu
: Nicholas Clark <sko...@home.com> wrote:
: Are there any BASIC programs out there that can allow a TRS-80 (model
: I,IV,or 100) to act as a serial terminal? Thanks!
: --
bma...@iglou.com
>Hi, this is Nick. Would you happen to have any info on use of the
>serial terminal program, or how to access it? telecom is a modem
>terminal program, but what I need is to go over the RS-232. Can you
>help me with that?
or RS-232. To choose one or the other, press F3 and type the following:
M8N1E to use the modem, 8 bits, no parity, 1 stop bit, enable software flow
control (hardware flow control is not available).
To use the RS232 port, replace the letter M with a number:
3=300 bps
4=600
5=1200
6=2400
7=4800
8=9600
9=19200
(Telcom may drop characters when scrolling at speeds 1200 or higher).
For more information see http://www.the-dock.com/club100.html
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Nicholas Clark <sko...@MailAndNews.com> wrote:
> Hi, this is Nick. Would you happen to have any info on use of the
> serial terminal program, or how to access it? telecom is a modem
> terminal program, but what I need is to go over the RS-232.
Telecom can use the serial port.
> Can you help me with that?
The first letter of the STAT command is:
M internal modem (300 bd)
1 75 bd
2 150 bd
3 300 bd
4 600 bd
5 1200 bd
6 2400 bd
7 4800 bd
8 9600 bd
9 19200 bd
Just enter STAT 38N1E to enable the serial port to 300 baud, 8-bit, No
parity, 1 stopbit, hardware handshake Enabled...
Get it ?
If not, I'll send you the model 100 quick reference guide.
> >> Are there any BASIC programs out there that can allow a TRS-80
> >>(model I,IV,or 100) to act as a serial terminal? Thanks!
Why use BASIC ? Both the model 100 as the model 4 (TRSDOS/LS-DOS 6.x) are
equipped with machine-language terminal programs. You can add a filter to the
serial port driver on the model 4. Or you can use other terminal programs,
you can find them for the model 4 on WWW.TRS-80.COM or
www.the-dock.com/club100.html for the model 100.
You could, sure, but it probably wouldn't cope with anything faster than 300
bd.
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