HECTOR (Home Equipment for ConTrol and ORganization) is the ancestor of Zdanetix. It was developed during the first years of the 21st century and has been in operation for over 10 years. Parts of it are still active now, until completion of the development and the porting of Zdanetix to the Raspberry Pi.

It is composed of :

• a hardware part : a rack containing several I/O boards, each handling specific types of inputs and outputs, and a "computer board" featuring a Motorola (Freescale) 68HC11 microcontroller
   
• a software part : this was running as a console application on a laptop under Windows 95. It exchanged data with the 68HC11 microcontroller via a serial asynchronous line at 1200 baud, using a simple character oriented line protocol. It was a stand-alone application with no connection to the Internet.
  Zdanetix took this part over, running on a recent PC under Windows 7, with the missing serial port emulated by a USB to serial adapter.

Demo screen shots. Downloads: Demo program.

If what you need for a user interface is a plain old character cell terminal, for a small application without bells, whistles and mouse, like a test or diagnostic utility, then MINIFORM may be for you. This is a simple forms driver which interprets screen layout descriptions written in a simple language that has a directive for each elementary action to be performed... (more)
This is the console I/O - screen formatter used by HECTOR.
Demo screen shots. Downloads : Demo program, sources.