Bryan Pope wrote: That is true, but even the server is down at present. I'm trying to get into the box to start it back up again. The domain is owned by someone else, so I can't control that. In truth, though, Life happened. Jeff owns the domain, and he's been moving, so I'm sure the notice to his email went unread. -- Jim Brain, Brain Innovations brain at jbrain.com Dabbling in WWW, Embedded Systems, Old CBM computers, and Good Times! Home: http://www.jbrain.com

I seriously considered buying the Turbo232, and realistically if you count my time, it would have been cheaper. However, I wanted to build my own (my VIC-20 was expanded with home-built stuff), and also figured I'd be up and running faster. The UDS-10 looks like an interesting device to add in. I don't like my current setup as I have to boot up my Pentium 4, which I basically never use. I want to see about getting TCPSER running on a Unix box that's always up, as that would be a much better solution for me. I've been thinking of picking up the Retro Replay cartridge with the Ethernet adapter. I'd love to be able to use that with Contiki, but I don't think I can justify the expense right now. BTW, I first accessed the Internet at 2400 baud, so that's not a huge problem for me :^) Zane -- | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator | | healyzh at aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast | | MONK::HEALYZH (DECnet) | Classic Computer Collector | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | | PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. | | http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |

It does, if you use the "brain" cable mods (take null modem cable and cut off DSR pin to 64). tcpser and tcpser4j flip DTR to effect DCD on the receiving end, but null modem cables normally hook DSR and DCD together. Cutting the pin lets DSR float high (which is fine) and DCD then tracks the connection state. For a user port system, the cut is not needed, as user port code typically ignores DSR, but the 6551 carts absolutely will not work if DSR is tied low. My first telecommunications was over rural lines using a brand new CBM 1600 non-dialing direct connect modem. 300 bps was not possible, so I conversed with friends at 150 bps. Later, I upgraded to a 1650 clone call the MasterModem that got me on at 300 bps. After lightning took the modem out, I got the ill-conceived 1660 300 bps modem, and when lightning took it (good riddance) I got a Zoom 2400 that I used at 2400 with Novaterm. Given the readership, I'll note I took the system to college, where I used it for term papers and general work until 1992, including doing my Physics online homework on the University of Illinois PLATO system from my dorm room using some PLATO emulator for the 64. It sure beat fighting for a plasma PLATO workstations at the locations on campus. Getting my first taste of UNIX via the 64 and Novaterm at 2400 bps was fun too. I think all the student accounts were on a Sequent 68K CPU based box, as I recall, but I could be terribly wrong. In any event, I still use tricks I learned them (screen, anyone) to this day. jim -- Jim Brain, Brain Innovations brain at jbrain.com Dabbling in WWW, Embedded Systems, Old CBM computers, and Good Times! Home: http://www.jbrain.com

At 10:23 AM -0500 9/20/06, Jim Brain wrote: It's just the MAX233 design on that site with a reset button added, so I rather doubt it rates a schematic of its own :^) I also built the 7404 interface also shown on the site, to refresh my skills before building this one, but I think that my C64 is a bit to far Cool! I've been wanting to try it since I heard about it. It is a SDLT II Tape case (no real difference to a TK50 or DLT case), the tapes hold 600GB per tape. We have the empty boxes coming out our ears at work, though most do get reused, and they seem to work really well as a small project box. Simply used "zip-strip" cable ties to fasten the circuit board to the case with 4 holes in the bottom of the box. While I don't like how the User Port connector hangs out, I'm rather pleased with the rest of the construction. Zane -- | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator | | healyzh at aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast | | MONK::HEALYZH (DECnet) | Classic Computer Collector | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | | PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. | | http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |

On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Chuck Guzis wrote: The USER port on the C64 (which Zane's MAX232 hookup is using) is only really useful up to about 2400bps in this application. (The RS232 timing is done via NMI (since of course there's no UART), so the kernel gets kinda flattened by this. There are third party softwares which allow up to 9600bps, but it's apparently unsupported by most people and kinda hinky). JP

I've so far run at 1200 baud, I think it's good for somewhere between 2400 and 9600 baud, from what I've read, but am not sure. I gather some tricks are needed to get much faster than 2400 out of a C64 User port. Others here would know a lot more than me about this. Zane -- | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator | | healyzh at aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast | | MONK::HEALYZH (DECnet) | Classic Computer Collector | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | | PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. | | http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |

Cameron Kaiser wrote: You can get 9600 in 64 mode if you tweak the user port interface to feed the incoming bit stream into the CIA shift register. The mod is called the Daniel Dallmann mod (after the creator) or UP232 (after the novaterm terminology), and ez232 contains jumpers to reconfigure for normal or UP232 mode Jim -- Jim Brain, Brain Innovations brain at jbrain.com Dabbling in WWW, Embedded Systems, Old CBM computers, and Good Times! Home: http://www.jbrain.com

Rumor has it that Zane H. Healy may have mentioned these words: I've had way too little sleep and way too deviant a mind (read: in the gutter) to be saying stuff like that around me... ;-) [[snip]] ^^^ I have one of those - *great* camera until it gets the GBLOD, or "Green Blinking Led Of Death" like mine did 2 weeks ago. It happens really suddenly - works one week, doesn't the next. Ungh. :-( If it wasn't for a last-minute 1200mile roundtrip for business last week and a death in the family this week (800 mile roundtrip) -- not to mention possible unemployment soon... I'd have shipped it back to Nikon this week. Maybe if I have room I'll take it with me & do it anyway.... At least Nikon will fix 'em for free. There's a big story on www.dpreview.com Laterz, "Merch" -- Roger "Merch" Merchberger | "Profile, don't speculate." SysAdmin, Iceberg Computers | Daniel J. Bernstein zmerch at 30below.com |

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I stocked up on M2, M2.5, M3 and M4 nuts and bolts (of various lengths). That covers must homebrewing applications. If you prefer the UNC threads, they'll do too :-). I wouldn't even think of ordering less than 100 of each part, for the common stuff (like M3 nuts), I tend to buy 1000. I am perhaps lucky in that I have a reasonable mechanical workshop too. If I need a special spacer, I make it from brass rod. A lathe makes it easy to get it to the right length, to drill and tap the centre hole, etc. I know this is not an option for everyone, though. The worse one is the HPIB (IEEE488) connector. The jackposts for that are M3.5 thread. And nobody in the UK would sell me a couple. The end result was that I bought a set of M3.5 taps and made them from stainless steel rod. Oh, probaby a 'feature' of the LCD monitors in the internet cafe, then. On those it looked to have about the same aspect ratio as an audio compact cassette case. That's one advantage of a technical camera. If you get the flim plane, the plane of the less (yes, that's an approximation for a real lens) and the plane of the subject all passing through one point [1] you get sharp focus throughout the image plane. I am not going to attempt to spell the name of the guy who named this principle, though. [1] That point may be at infinity, that is the 3 planes can be parallel, which is the case for most 'normal' cameras. Oh my carmeras are such antiques that they don't even know what a floppy is :-). Odd. That's why I bought an MPP Monorail... -tony