VT340 Emulation

On 6/26/21 9:31 AM, Tapley, Mark B. via cctalk wrote: I've used -- what I'll generically call -- FTDI devices one or more times a year for the last decade or more. Admittedly I'm not asking much of it; 115200, 8, n, 1, or 9600, 8, n, 1, to connect to serial console ports on network equipment. Aside: I believe that Cisco started including such FTDI devices in some of their equipment and only exposing the USB cable / port. So all you need is a passive USB cable -- easy enough to obtain -- and a new enough OS that it includes drivers for FTDI ports -- also easy enough to obtain. I do recall having problems with /some/ devices that fall into the FTDI device category. I don't know that they were FTDI /brand/ per se. I don't know if those problems were driver and / or hardware related. But I do know that the ones that had FTDI in their driver / device name (as reported by Windows' Device Manager) tended to be more reliable and work longer. As in didn't die 6 months later. I have one USB-to-Serial that I picked up out of a junk pile that has 16 (?) DE-9 male ports on it and one USB-B port on it. It presents itself to the computer as 16 discrete serial ports on one USB device. It was definitely worth the price of digging through the bone pile in 95 degree heat. -- Grant. . . . unix || die