MTerm II (Zebra 1986 cartridge)

MTERM is a terminal program for the TS 2050 modem. It auto-dials stored telephone numbers, captures incoming text in a buffer that can be viewed, printed or transmitted, and sends stored strings from ten MacroKeys. The related product post lists a 14-number auto-dial directory, a 27K send and receive buffer and 10 MacroKeys. Status messages report “Ring-In”, “Connect”, “Connection lost” and “No answer or busy”.

This is the cartridge version. Its sign-on reads “MTERM – Smart Terminal program / Version 1.00 (c) Copyright 1983 / by Micro-Systems Software Inc. / Licensed to Westridge Comm. Inc.” The same program on cassette is MTerm II (#53108), whose sign-on names Zebra Systems as licensee instead. See also MTERM Smart II Buffer Utility (#72785).

Program Analysis

Structure

The download is an 8K DCK image: one ROM chunk in the dock bank at 32768–40959. Its machine code matches the 7,721-byte code block of the cassette version, apart from the licence line.

Menus

• Main menu: A auto-dials a number, B, I and P set the border, ink and paper colours, C edits the phone numbers, D opens the buffer menu, S the system setup menu, E exits to BASIC, and ENTER goes to terminal mode.
• Buffer menu: toggle, erase, view or transmit the capture buffer, and toggle conversion.
• System setup: duplex, LF and CR suppression, MacroKeys, translation tables, video width, word length, parity and stop bits; the settings can be saved to and loaded from tape.
• Help menu (in terminal mode): clear the screen, print the screen, return to the main menu, or send one of the MacroKeys 0–9.