[TUHS] I swear! I rtfm'ed

[Clem Cole]

On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 5:30 PM, Jacob Ritorto <jacob.ritorto at gmail.com>
wrote:

> CIT-101 from c.itoh

​I remember those, but I do not have a manual for it.
I reasonable guess is they tried to clone the VT-100 which means its ANSI
sequences but not full ANSI and lots of strangeness - Thank you to my old
friend Tom Kent who had a lot to do with the original FW and the keyboard.
In his defense, the ANSI sequences were not yet a standard when then
started that project.   So they took what they knew was going to be there,
add a ton of DEC specific stuff and the result is history.

BTW: If you even wanted to know why the original Masscomp keyboard worked
as it did, was because Tom had the "second systems effect" when he did the
MC-500  and I always tease him about it all the time - although unlike the
MC-500 you could not use the VT-100 as a weapon ;-)​

Anyway - I just looked in the original VT-100 programmer guide again and
could not find the sequence "\033c" defined in it.  So I'm >>guessing<< Tom
and team did not implement it, and thus c.itoh did not either when they
cloned it.
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