I think for me what gets confusing is where the various pins are. ?I have to read and
re-resd pinouts to figure out where stuff should be. ?I sometimes have a brain fart and
get it backwards. ?Yesterday part of my problem with my Tektronix box was having the
numbering of pins on the terminal's DB25 backwards. ?Once I had that figured out it
was just a matter of looping certain pins and we were good. ?It just adds an extra layer
of fiddling.
I have a question though.. there have been a few times where I thought the 6800 crashed
but may not have. ?In several cases.. I sent a large loader file across and noticed errors
coming through.. so I'd stop the machine. ?This was after teraterm said it had sent
everything through. ?Is it possible the serial port on my PC is still trying to send out
garbage for a while, messing up my connection to the 6800 until it finishes? ?I kept
moving cards around but eventually it seemed to start working after so many powerups and
time had passed..
Sent from my Samsung device
-------- Original message --------
From: Brent Hilpert <hilpert at cs.ubc.ca>
Date: 2016-08-09 9:49 AM (GMT-08:00)
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at
classiccmp.org>
Subject: Re: SWTPC 6800
On 2016-Aug-09, at 6:47 AM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 6:55 PM, Chuck Guzis <cclist
at sydex.com> wrote:
On 08/05/2016 02:15 PM, Brad H wrote:
I have one more question for you guys -- I have a
few CT-1024
terminals and would really like this system to work with one of
those.? However, all of the CTs are quite delicate and are set I
think for 7, E, 2 @ 110 baud via soldered jumpers.
Well, 110 bps is a bit on the slow side--great for teletypes, not so
much for video terminals.
And I am not aware of any USB serial adapters that do 110 bps.? If
anyone knows of any, post brand and model numbers.
It didn't do 110, but I chanced across one USB/serial adapter that goes down to 75
bps.
which fortuitously was just what I needed at the time for the model 28 teletype (with the
appropriate gears) I was attempting to drive.
The 75 wasn't readily accessible, I had to go to a low level in the unix config code
and try sequential factors in the
configuration for the rate, 75 being another factor of 2 down in the standard rate series
19,200 . . 9600 . . 1200 . . 300 . . 150 . .