Software replacement for an ASR33 and PDP8

Cutecom appears to have support for all the needed options (at least version 0.22 which is what's on this machine done. I prefer minicom myself on a linux box (because it's a terminal application), which also has all the needed settings needed in this case. --Jason On 05/20/2014 05:51 PM, Rob Doyle wrote: > On 5/20/2014 1:25 PM, Marco Rauhut wrote: >> Hello together, >> >> the restoration of my PDP-8 and TU56 going forward. Many PDP 8 machine >> tests are OK. The TU56 come slowly back to life. >> >> My current problem is, that i do not own a ASR33. Or is it no Problem? >> I testet the M8655 with the echo and printer test like in the smal >> computers handbook described. All is working fine. I see readable >> characters in cutecom on my linux desktop. With the cutecom i also send >> the binloader and the testprograms to the PDP8. There i have no >> problems >> too. But... some maindec testsoftware is doing printouts on the >> Teletype >> witch i canot read on cutecom. Exactly the same happens, if i bootstrap >> software witch come on tape with the tapedrive. >> >> Exampe hexdump of the output from software on tape (generated with >> cutecom): >> >> 00000000: 00 ff bf b0 b0 ae b0 b0 20 c0 20 b1 b1 ae b3 b0 >> 00000010: 20 8d 8a aa aa c7 8d 8a 8d 8a 8d 8a 8d 8a c4 c5 >> 00000020: c3 d4 c1 d0 c5 a0 d3 d9 d3 d4 c5 cd a0 c4 d4 a3 >> 00000030: b4 8d 8a 8d 8a c2 c9 ce c1 d2 d9 a0 cd cf ce c9 >> >> Is there an existing software witch can act like a ASR33 for typing and >> printing , or i got to write my own ? >> >> Many thanks to all who help me again and again..... >> >> Marco Rauhut >> >> * Deutsch - erkannt >> * Englisch >> * Deutsch >> >> * Englisch >> * Deutsch >> >> <javascript:void(0);> >> > > The terminal program needs to be configured for 7-bits with MARK parity > and 1 STOP bit to be compatible with a ASR33. > > See URL below for a long discussion: > > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.sys.pdp8/Sj59REEBe2M > > I don't know about cutecom, but Tera Term and putty both support > MARK parity. Some terminal programs don't. > > Rob. > >