[gentoo-user] Very "old fashioned" question

[gentoo-user] Very "old fashioned" question

[meino.cramer]

Hi,

currently I am playing around with the simulation of on old PDP-10
(DEC).

It is real fun to see and feel, how this dinosaurs of high power 
computing (the CPU of the PDP10, the KL10 processor has eaten
1.26 kW!!!!)

The installation of the old tapes to finally get a fully functional
TOPS-20 OS requires to enter such mysterious key compbinations like
CTRL-/ (which at least on a german keyboard produces something totally
different.

Or in other words: 
The installation of the system is blocked by not haveing the correct
keycodes.

My questionis are: 
Are these old fashioned keycodes are part of a certain terminal emulation,
so that I only have to change $TERM, or are they something to hack into 
.Xmodmap?

Does anyone has a list with the mapping of these ancient keycode to
any numerical value?

Thank you very much ! Long lives the radio tube and CPUs of dicrete
transistors!!! :)

Have a nice XMas and a happy new Year 2011!
Best regards,
mcc

[gentoo-user] Re: Very "old fashioned" question

[James]

 <meino.cramer <at> gmx.de> writes:


> currently I am playing around with the simulation of on old PDP-10
> (DEC).

Lots of info here:

http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/pdp10emu.html


Merry Christmas .....


James

Re: [gentoo-user] Very "old fashioned" question

[Meik Frischke]

On Wednesday 22 December 2010 19:44:53, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> currently I am playing around with the simulation of on old PDP-10
> (DEC).
> 
> It is real fun to see and feel, how this dinosaurs of high power 
> computing (the CPU of the PDP10, the KL10 processor has eaten
> 1.26 kW!!!!)
> 
> The installation of the old tapes to finally get a fully functional
> TOPS-20 OS requires to enter such mysterious key compbinations like
> CTRL-/ (which at least on a german keyboard produces something totally
> different.
> 
> Or in other words: 
> The installation of the system is blocked by not haveing the correct
> keycodes.
> 
> My questionis are: 
> Are these old fashioned keycodes are part of a certain terminal emulation,
> so that I only have to change $TERM, or are they something to hack into 
> .Xmodmap?
> 
> Does anyone has a list with the mapping of these ancient keycode to
> any numerical value?
> 
> Thank you very much ! Long lives the radio tube and CPUs of dicrete
> transistors!!! :)
> 
> Have a nice XMas and a happy new Year 2011!
> Best regards,
> mcc
> 

Hi !
AFAIR you are looking for DECxterm :

ftp://ftp.avanthar.com/vms/vt100.sh
http://decuslib.com/decus/freewarev70/decxterm/

just "./DECxterm.sh -e telnet $HOST $PORT"

Happy holidays and a Happy New Year!