20 May
2011
20 May
'11
1:11 p.m.
The port wiring is not less of a standard than the
200LX, but I recall
there's a bug in the serial port hardware on the 95LX that prevents a
lot of software from working with it properly. (I was bummed at the
time that Telix wouldn't run on it.) It has been awhile, so I may be
misremembering this.
I miust admit that I've never tried to use the HP95LX serial port other
tahn from the built-in software. The termainal emualtor does all I really
need (dumb terminal, raw upload/capture, kermit). It does other things
too that I don't neeed :-)
I wonder if the problem is partly due to the missing handshake lines.
Perhaps all handshake inputs are assmed to be inactive, which might upset
some prgrams.
-tony