[Simh] HP 3000 Terminals

[Ken Cornetet]

Interestingly, AICS research has abandoned QCTerm.

They have sent me the source code which is Visual Basic, I believe.

They have also sent me an email stating that I can do whatever I want including making it open source.

I know nothing about Visual Basic, or even doing GUI programming. Does anyone want to take over development, or better yet, port to a cross platform GUI framework?

QCTerm really needs to be archived somewhere - the hp1000 simulator is severely hamstrung without it.


-----Original Message-----
From: Simh [mailto:simh-bounces at trailing-edge.com] On Behalf Of J. David Bryan
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2016 10:54 PM
To: SIMH List <simh at trailing-edge.com>
Subject: Re: [Simh] HP 3000 Terminals

On Thursday, March 10, 2016 at 18:26, Michael Kerpan wrote:

> I'd be interested in knowing what kind of options are out there for 
> "real" HP terminal emulation.

I've used the following HP terminal emulators over the years:

 - QCTerm (Windows) by AICS
   http://www.hpmuseum.net/display_item.php?sw=585

 - AdvanceLink 2392 (DOS and Windows) by HP
   http://www.hpmuseum.net/display_item.php?sw=50
   http://www.hpmuseum.net/display_item.php?sw=178

 - Reflection (DOS and Windows) by Walker, Richer, and Quinn
   http://www.hpmuseum.net/display_item.php?sw=308

 - Crosstalk (Windows) by Attachmate

 - Session (Windows) by Tymlabs

All of the emulators, except QCTerm, were commercial products.  Reflection is probably the one that offered the most faithful emulation.  The others were close, but not perfect, reproductions of the hardware behavior.

(I used QCTerm while developing the simulator.)

                                      -- Dave

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