Date   : Fri, 25 Dec 1987 01:23:14 GMT
From   : navajo!marria@labrea.stanford.edu (Michael Marria)
Subject: Re: PIPing random files

       Primary questions here are, if you have heard of the Visual
1050 desktop computer, is it (reportedly) KAPRO compatible?
       One is affecting my life through my sister who aquired one,
and thus far I have managed to figure out that it will talk via
telenet as an "ansi" terminal on the UNIX machines.
       Furthermore, I have seen the supplied software includes
a CPM base and Wordstar plus a few other kwown programs. 
       The innards include a 6502 (co)processor(?) some NEC
chips, two single(?) sided 96 TPI drives etc.
       Any help out there?
       I would like to grant my sis the proper termcap, an ansi sys
and amongst other things, an executable for Hack, and direction
towards the preferable OS whether it be xx-DOS or stick with CPM.
       The supplied terminal emulator called tty1050 (which I am
using to compose this) seems to only be capable of ASCII file
transfers via a trap method. Is there anything else available for this
machine?

       Any responses to the effect that this boat anchor could be
replaced with a (pick your favorite clone) should be directed to
/dev/null. Any real help with this problem will be graciously
appreciated.

                                       Thank you,
                                       Michael R.Marria