Downloadable Disk Images - Programs on the Communications disk
This disk contains three programs that enabled my System 80 to communicate with the outside world. Essentially they turned the computer into a "Smart Terminal", for linking to Bulletin Board Systems (BBS's) and mainframe computers. This was well before the Internet as we know it of course. Logging into a BBS (usually with a 300 baud modem, where the letters scrolled across the screen at about the speed of a fast typist) was the closest thing you got to being "on-line".
(Note: ensure an available COM port is enabled in the emulator settings if using these program with the TRS32)
| Name (and filename) | Description | What to type at the dos prompt |
| OnmiTerm
v 1.6 (omni/cmd) Auxiliary files include... ominxfer/cmd, omnixfer/cim binhex/cmd, hexbin/cmd, errbin/cmd, binerr/cmd |
My favourite communication program. This also
included utility files to encode binary files to ascii and
vice versa for sending across 7-bit transmission protocols.
Other utility files managed checksums for error checking. By David J Lindbergh, (1983) Note: Manual describes version 1.53 release 11 |
omni/cmd Once loaded, press the @ key twice for a menu |
| Dynaterm 3.1
(mph/cmd)
Auxiliary files include... dynaterm/add dynaterm/av2 and I think also... ssvdobjs/dat usvdobjs/dat |
By A.S. Vincent (date unknown) | mph/cmd |
| Telcom II (telcom/cmd) | By Bryan Mumford (1982) | telcom/cmd |
