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Tektronix 4010 Emulator
This is a Tektronix 4010 terminal emulator for the Raspberry Pi.
It attempts to emulate the storage tube display of the 4010, including the bright drawing spot. At the moment, it only supports persistent drawing, but there are plans to emulate the 4014 with its ability for fading objects.
It is currently in alpha-test and updated daily.
It can be used to log into a historical Unix system such as 2.11 BSD on the PiDP11.
First, you need to login remotely into your system, for example using
rsh -l user_name system
where "user_name" is the name of the user on the historical Unix system, and "system" is the name of the system, for example
rsh -l rene pdp11
Only if this works properly, you can use the tek4010 emulator. Call it as follows:
tek4010 /usr/bin/rsh -l user_name system
In principle, other commands such as telnet instead of rsh could also be used, but have not yet been tested.
The following keys are not transmitted to the Unix system, but are executed locally in the terminal emulator:
home clear persistent screen
page up clear persistent screen
page down clear persistent screen
These keys emulate the "page" key of the Tektronix 4010