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In article <18...@cc.usu.edu>, GE...@cc.usu.edu (Gehri Grimaud) writes:
> Back in about '82 I worked for the Micro Lab here at USU.  We used Heathkit
> H19 terminals on all of our home-built CP/M machines.  One of the guys in the 
> lab got fed up with the limited character graphics capabilities of the H19.
> So we decided to do a little hacking on the character generator ROM.

Gehri!! You forgot about the detached keyboard attachment! Here's what you
do:
    - Order a pizza
    - Remove the screws that hold the H19s keyboard to the keyboard shelf
    - Get a *really* long ribbon cable
    - Cut pieces from the pizza box to cover the hole in the terminal
      behind the keyboard and to wrap around the keyboard as a box. The
      box can be held in place by the screws that you took out earlier.
      Note that a bit of duct tape is necessary to hold the top together.

Now you have a fancy detached keyboard for you H19 *plus* a handy storage
shelf when you're not using it. If you do the pizza box bit right, you even
have a nice reminder to order pizza when you start hacking.

And then there are the rumors about the guys that hooked up a VT52 in
parallel and got about 500 Kbaud thruput (it uses a microcoded engine
that prefers to receive characters from the uart rather than draw the
screen).

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