I said the modem is the telnet client. Telnet is a tcp/ip protocol and there is no such thing as tcp/ip on a 100. No networking hardware and not enough cpu or ram to do anything useful if there were such a thing as a network card.
The modem has it's own cpu and ram and tcp/ip stack software, and the computer just talks plain serial tty to it, just like ordinary phone modems. If you mean is there a better terminal emulator, there might be. For starters at least there is a whole directory devoted to telcom apps in the M100SIG archive, including some apps that seem to be vt52 and vt100 emulators, and some archived discussion threads about them. I haven't gone through it all to see what's what. https://archive.org/details/M100SIG There seems to be at least one vt100 emulator app on club100 http://club100.org/library/libtel.html A terminal or terminal emulator is a separate thing from a telnet or ssh client. They are often bundled together in typical windows or mac apps, but really the telnet part is a separate job from the terminal emulator part. So in this case, the modem does the physical network connection (the wifi) and the tcp/ip and telnet protocol, and provides a plain tty interface on a serial port. And the computer only needs a terminal app to read text from the serial port and display on the screen, and read text from the keyboard and send to the serial port. There is no ethernet or tcp/ip or telnet knowledge or code in the computer, that's all in the modem. The computer only needs a serial comm program just like with any other modem. The built-in telcom app is very basic and does not emulate ansi or vt100, so you could do with a better terminal app if there is one. Especially if there is one that can work with the Disk/Video Interface to use a full 80x25 screen. But the built-in telcom app does the basic job. -- bkw On Sun, Feb 21, 2021, 4:03 PM Jeff Gonzales <gonzobra...@gmail.com> wrote: > So would you still use the built-in terminal or is there an actual telnet > client available for the m100 now? > > On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 1:58 PM Brian K. White <b.kenyo...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> On 2/20/21 5:22 PM, Jeff Gonzales wrote: >> > How do you connect to remote BBS' with this? I have only done it with >> > telnet on a computer. How do AT commands work on wifi? Does the >> > device have a SIM card and, of so, are the remote BBS' still using >> > modems?? >> >> The remote side is a telnet server running bbs software. You can telnet >> to it using any telnet client. >> >> On the client side, the device connects to wifi, not the cell network, >> so no sim card. >> >> And the device is essentially a telnet client, meaning the device does >> the tcp/ip and the telnet protocol with the telnet server, just like how >> a regular modem does all the v.42bis handshaking and error correction >> and compression with the other modem. >> >> You control the device with AT commands, both to get connected to wifi >> and to "dial" some telnet server. >> >> How exactly the AT commands work is what the manual is for. You just use >> them the same as with any other modem. There's commands to list all wifi >> networks in the area, supply a password to join a network, set static IP >> settings or dhcp, even to control the led. The ATDT command accepts an >> ip or hostname and tcp port number like "hostname:port" instead of a >> phone number. >> https://www.cbmstuff.com/downloads/wimodem/wimodem232_manual.pdf >> >> Every modem ever made had it's own special AT commands for various >> functions. This is no different. >> >> -- >> bkw >> >>
