5 Nov
2015
5 Nov
'15
8:51 p.m.
Can somone recommend a good USB-to-parallel port solution that will easily
work with Linux?
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David Griffith
dave at 661.org
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5 Nov
5 Nov
9:08 p.m.
On Friday (11/06/2015 at 01:51AM +0000), dave at 661.org wrote:
Can somone recommend a good USB-to-parallel port solution that will easily
work with Linux?
FT245??
https://www.sparkfun.com/products/7841
Will look like a tty device to Linux(/dev/ttyUSBn) but baud rate, other
settings are ignored and whatever you write to that port comes out the
FT245 bit parallel and whatever you strobe into FT245 bit parallel comes
out the tty driver on the top side.
I have used these as a high speed channel to vintage machines such as
Heath H89 and then we ran a disk emulation protocol on top of that.
Chris
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Chris Elmquist
6 Nov
6 Nov
1:35 a.m.
@Chris
For printing use, I've purchased & used several of the ultra-cheap USB to
Parallel cable devices, readily available on eBay for about $2.00-$3.00
each.
Plugs & play, no troubles at all on recent Linux (Xubuntu) and Windows.
Is that helpful?
On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 8:08 PM, Chris Elmquist <chrise at pobox.com> wrote:
On Friday (11/06/2015 at 01:51AM +0000), dave at
661.org wrote:
Can somone recommend a good USB-to-parallel port solution that will
easily
work with Linux?
FT245??
https://www.sparkfun.com/products/7841
Will look like a tty device to Linux(/dev/ttyUSBn) but baud rate, other
settings are ignored and whatever you write to that port comes out the
FT245 bit parallel and whatever you strobe into FT245 bit parallel comes
out the tty driver on the top side.
I have used these as a high speed channel to vintage machines such as
Heath H89 and then we ran a disk emulation protocol on top of that.
Chris
--
Chris Elmquist
2:35 a.m.
On Fri, 6 Nov 2015, drlegendre . wrote:
On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 8:08 PM, Chris Elmquist
<chrise at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Friday (11/06/2015 at 01:51AM +0000), dave at 661.org wrote:
>>
>> Can somone recommend a good USB-to-parallel port solution that will
> easily
>> work with Linux?
>
> FT245??
>
> https://www.sparkfun.com/products/7841
>
> Will look like a tty device to Linux(/dev/ttyUSBn) but baud rate, other
> settings are ignored and whatever you write to that port comes out the
> FT245 bit parallel and whatever you strobe into FT245 bit parallel comes
> out the tty driver on the top side.
>
> I have used these as a high speed channel to vintage machines such as
> Heath H89 and then we ran a disk emulation protocol on top of that.
@Chris
For printing use, I've purchased & used several of the ultra-cheap USB to
Parallel cable devices, readily available on eBay for about $2.00-$3.00
each.
Plugs & play, no troubles at all on recent Linux (Xubuntu) and Windows.
Is that helpful?
I intend to use it to drive the Spare Time Gizmos "Panda PDP-10 Display".
--
David Griffith
dave at 661.org
A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
4:05 a.m.
New subject: Omen site and FTP server
On 11/6/2015 12:34 AM, Ali wrote:
It looks like the OMEN.COM site is up (although as a
for sale sign by
Chuck's widow) and the FTP server is up and running. However, anonymous
access seems to be denied. Is this just a problem on my end or can anyone
mirror it?
-Ali
Looks like someone is on, maybe 6 people with open but not connected
sessions, or perhaps
friends of his downloading stuff. I got timeouts when I posted after
the note on this list on both
the FTP and the web site, so it seems like someone must have put it
back up.
This is a Filezilla session log.
Response: 220---------- Welcome to Pure-FTPd [privsep] [TLS] ----------
Response: 220-You are user number 7 of 500 allowed.
Response: 220-Local time is now 02:02. Server port: 21.
Response: 220-This is a private system - No anonymous login
Response: 220 You will be disconnected after 15 minutes of inactivity.
Command: USER anonymous
Response: 331 User anonymous OK. Password required
Command: PASS **************
Response: 530 Login authentication failed
Thanks
jim
4:09 a.m.
New subject: Omen site and FTP server
On 11/6/2015 12:34 AM, Ali wrote:
It looks like the OMEN.COM site is up (although as a
for sale sign by
Chuck's widow) and the FTP server is up and running. However, anonymous
access seems to be denied. Is this just a problem on my end or can anyone
mirror it?
-Ali
Perhaps someone who knew Chuck can contact Betty and explain that the
FTP server has data, particularly in my case the Tektronix software he
had that is on that server, and is not downloadable thru the Apache server.
I will do so in a while if noone who knew him better says something.
In sympathy with her, I have a couple of friends who's husbands passed
that took 6 to 9 months before they could talk w/o a major episode, so
someone with some tact might want to do the contacting. I have a lot of
sympathy in just calling up and saying, "gee I'd like this or that".
That is what it boils down to, but hopefully if she has some comments be
sympathetic.
Thanks for pinging back, Ali.
thanks
Jim
8:52 a.m.
New subject: Omen site and FTP server
Jim;
I'd be happy to host the entire site on the classiccmp, both website and ftp
site - gratis.
I was going to contact them and also discuss sale - depending on price I'd
be willing to pick it up.
In any case, please contact me off-list to arrange a game plan.
J
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From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of jwsmobile
Sent: Friday, November 06, 2015 3:10 AM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Subject: Re: Omen site and FTP server
On 11/6/2015 12:34 AM, Ali wrote:
It looks like the OMEN.COM site is up (although as a
for sale sign by
Chuck's widow) and the FTP server is up and running. However,
anonymous access seems to be denied. Is this just a problem on my end
or can anyone mirror it?
-Ali
Perhaps someone who knew Chuck can contact Betty and explain that the FTP
server has data, particularly in my case the Tektronix software he had that
is on that server, and is not downloadable thru the Apache server.
I will do so in a while if noone who knew him better says something.
In sympathy with her, I have a couple of friends who's husbands passed that
took 6 to 9 months before they could talk w/o a major episode, so someone
with some tact might want to do the contacting. I have a lot of sympathy in
just calling up and saying, "gee I'd like this or that".
That is what it boils down to, but hopefully if she has some comments be
sympathetic.
Thanks for pinging back, Ali.
thanks
Jim
9:04 a.m.
New subject: Omen site and FTP server
Perhaps someone who knew Chuck can contact Betty and
explain that the
FTP server has data, particularly in my case the Tektronix software he
had that is on that server, and is not downloadable thru the Apache
server.
I will do so in a while if noone who knew him better says something.
Jim,
I actually did get in touch with the widow and heard back from her.
Unfortunately, for all intents and purposes the data is gone. While there
may be backups and the possibility of retrieval from the HW she does not
know how. In fact someone else setup the pointer page for her on Go Daddy.
There is a slim chance that the person helping her may be able to do a
recovery but we won't know for about a week or so.
-Ali
9:10 a.m.
New subject: Omen site and FTP server
Because it may be timesensitive, I contacted her and offered to pay for data
recovery of the drive, and other items. Will post whatever I hear.
J
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Ali
Sent: Friday, November 06, 2015 8:04 AM
To: 'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts'
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Subject: RE: Omen site and FTP server
Perhaps someone who knew Chuck can contact Betty and
explain that the
FTP server has data, particularly in my case the Tektronix software he
had that is on that server, and is not downloadable thru the Apache
server.
I will do so in a while if noone who knew him better says something.
Jim,
I actually did get in touch with the widow and heard back from her.
Unfortunately, for all intents and purposes the data is gone. While there
may be backups and the possibility of retrieval from the HW she does not
know how. In fact someone else setup the pointer page for her on Go Daddy.
There is a slim chance that the person helping her may be able to do a
recovery but we won't know for about a week or so.
-Ali
11:13 a.m.
New subject: Omen site and FTP server
On 11/6/2015 6:10 AM, Jay West wrote:
Because it may be timesensitive, I contacted her and
offered to pay for data
recovery of the drive, and other items. Will post whatever I hear.
J
Thanks, Jay.
Really appreciate your help.
Thanks
JIm
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Ali
Sent: Friday, November 06, 2015 8:04 AM
To: 'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts'
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Subject: RE: Omen site and FTP server
Perhaps someone who knew Chuck can contact Betty
and explain that the
FTP server has data, particularly in my case the Tektronix software he
had that is on that server, and is not downloadable thru the Apache
server.
I will do so in a while if noone who knew him better says something.
Jim,
I actually did get in touch with the widow and heard back from her.
Unfortunately, for all intents and purposes the data is gone. While there
may be backups and the possibility of retrieval from the HW she does not
know how. In fact someone else setup the pointer page for her on Go Daddy.
There is a slim chance that the person helping her may be able to do a
recovery but we won't know for about a week or so.
-Ali
11:39 a.m.
New subject: Omen site and FTP server
Jim wrote (re: Omen)
------
Thanks, Jay.
Really appreciate your help.
Thanks
Jim
-----
I don't want to publicly post too much that was in private email, but will
try to provide some general info and there's not much more I can say:
There are both (mostly) hardware and (some) password issues as to recovery
of the public-facing data. It does not look promising but time will tell.
The crux of the matter seems to be that information which should not be made
public is intermingled on the same system, so they are proceeding carefully
and with trusted parties which is very understandable.
J
7 Nov
7 Nov
10:24 a.m.
New subject: Omen site and FTP server
The crux of the matter seems to be that information
which should not be
made public is intermingled on the same system, so they are proceeding
carefully and with trusted parties which is very understandable.
Jay,
Thanks for stepping up and helping with this. When I saw the widow was
selling the domain name I was hopeful that she would be tech savvy and had
been involved in the business but apparently she is not. Hopefully, we will
able to retrieve the data from the HW.
-Ali
6 Nov
6 Nov
11:10 a.m.
On 11/5/2015 9:08 PM, Chris Elmquist wrote:
On Friday (11/06/2015 at 01:51AM +0000), dave at
661.org wrote:
I'm interested in this, but on the parallel side is it 5V logic? How do
you connect to the pads? Does USB provide all the necessary power?
Doug
Can somone recommend a good USB-to-parallel port
solution that will easily
work with Linux?
FT245??
https://www.sparkfun.com/products/7841
Will look like a tty device to Linux(/dev/ttyUSBn) but baud rate, other
settings are ignored and whatever you write to that port comes out the
FT245 bit parallel and whatever you strobe into FT245 bit parallel comes
out the tty driver on the top side.
I have used these as a high speed channel to vintage machines such as
Heath H89 and then we ran a disk emulation protocol on top of that.
Chris
6:11 p.m.
On Friday (11/06/2015 at 11:10AM -0500), Douglas Taylor wrote:
On 11/5/2015 9:08 PM, Chris Elmquist wrote:
On my original prototype, I soldered .1" headers into the pads or holes
of the Sparkfun board and then then those go through the holes in .1"
"Vector Board". I'm pretty much old school with prototyping-- point
to point wiring, soldering each connection-- so there is no wire-wrap
or PCB involved.
Refer to the schematic also there on the Sparkfun page but you can choose
whether the FT245 is powered from the USB side or from the "other" side.
If powered from the other side, then you can decide whether the I/O is
5V or 3.3V. Actually, you can also decide this even if powered from
the USB side as the device has an internal 3.3V regulator so will supply
3.3V from the 5V USB power.
Chris
--
Chris Elmquist
On Friday (11/06/2015 at 01:51AM +0000), dave at
661.org wrote:
I'm interested in this, but on the parallel side is it 5V logic? How do you
connect to the pads? Does USB provide all the necessary power? Can somone recommend a good USB-to-parallel port
solution that will easily
work with Linux?
FT245??
https://www.sparkfun.com/products/7841
Will look like a tty device to Linux(/dev/ttyUSBn) but baud rate, other
settings are ignored and whatever you write to that port comes out the
FT245 bit parallel and whatever you strobe into FT245 bit parallel comes
out the tty driver on the top side.
I have used these as a high speed channel to vintage machines such as
Heath H89 and then we ran a disk emulation protocol on top of that.
Chris
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