Wow.
Thanks for an excellent trip down memory lane. One oddity, I think I was
dialing into TYMNET as when I would call in it would say.
PLEASE TYPE YOUR TERMINAL IDENTIFIER
You would type "A" for ASCII. This would print very slowly, character by
character at about 110 baud. I think it was for either ASCII or EBCDIC.
Then you would get
PLEASE LOG IN
And I'd type something.
Then it would say:
P400 is online
Please sign on.
At which point you would type ID and your source username and password.
Great for playing Star Trek if I recall. The version I remember would
actually have the Klingon attack you even while you were typing, IE it
was not a turn by turn game. Fun....
CZ
On 4/10/2022 7:31 PM, Cameron Kaiser via cctalk wrote:
301 24 CONNECTED
DIALCOM NETWORK SYSTEM 10
Please do scan these! It is hard as hell getting info on The Source
and also on Dialcom!
Yes, I definitely plan to transcribe them. There is potentially some
copyrighted material here but I think I can just excerpt that and still include
all the rest of the login process, etc.
Still, would be nice to get the terminal itself working and see what's in the
ASR's bubble memory, assuming that's still operational, so any ideas people
have would be appreciated.
I've now transcribed the teletype transcripts and included some scans from the
manual, including a nice picture from InfoWorld in 1984 of the Prime hardware.
https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2022/04/tonight-were-gonna-log-on-like-its-1979.html
