Locator Devices

[j4james]

I saw on the home page README that you might be trying to get hold of a locator device to test with, but in case you can't find one, you might be interested in a project I came across on Hackaday that shows how to build an adapter for connecting a PS/2 mouse to the VT340.

https://hackaday.io/project/19576-dec-mouse-adapter

I know absolutely nothing about hardware hacking, so I don't know how easy that would be to build, but I figured it might be something you would understand.

Also, I noticed that the links in the Locator Devices section aren't rendering correctly on GitHub. I think the way it's supposed to work if you're using the footnote link format is you'll use a reference in the text like this:

the common protocol they spoke in the [VCB02 manual], particularly the appendices...

And then define the link for that reference in a footnote like this:

[VCB02 manual]: docs/kindred/EK-104AA-TM-001_VCB02_Video_Subsystem_Feb87.pdf

If you want to test stuff like this before checking it in, what I do is paste my markdown into a comment or issue on GitHub (obviously without submitting it) and just see what it looks like in the preview.

[j4james]

And while we're on the subject of locator protocols, there was something else I wanted to discuss with you. I've seen a couple of places where you've mentioned the capabilities of DECterm and the VWS VT200 emulator, and I was curious whether you actually have access to a system with either of those terminals?

The reason I ask is because both of them are supposed to support the DEC Text Locator extension, which is something I wanted to implement in Windows Terminal. The documentation can be a bit ambiguous (as is often the case), so I was hoping to find a reasonable reference implementation I could test against. And if the VT340 doesn't have that extension, then a terminal emulator written by DEC would be the next best thing.