11 Mar
2007
11 Mar
'07
2:29 p.m.
On Sun, 11 Mar 2007, Tony Duell wrote:
Does it support hardware flow control on the console port? If not, then
you're going to have a problem if the machine is seding characters at,
say, 1200 (about 120 cps) baud and your tty is only taking them at 110
baud (about 10 cps, since 110 baud often implies 2 stop bits). You've
got to have a way to tell the faster side to stop sending for a bit.
I'm not sure. I just want to drop 300 down to 110.
Are there many computers (apart from the BBC Micro!)
that can do 9600
baud but not 110 baud? I ask merely for information.
The Spare Time Gizmos SBC6120 (single board pdp8e clone) allows 38,400,
9600, 1200, and 300. There's a permanent mod that adds 110, but I'm put
off by the permanent part. You also lose the 38,400 setting. What does the mod consist of? I can't believe
it's really permanent
(although it might well involve soldering to undo it). Losing 38400 buad
is surely not a problem, since few, if any, classic terminals ran at that
speed, and you don't _need_ that sort of data rate for a tectual terminal
anyway.
The mod is discussed in this post:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sparetimegizmos/message/580
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