13 Sep
2019
13 Sep
'19
1:42 p.m.
I could use a hint... I have a USB to current-loop (Volpe) interface board,
and Windows 7 on my laptop does recognize it as COM4 at 110 baud.
So far so good. No problem hooking it up to my ASR-33 Teletype.
Now I'd really like to figure out how to set SIMH to use the 33 as the
console, so the TTY will be attached to the virtual PDP-8.
I do have OS/8 and TSS/8 running on SIMH with the laptop as console. Just
don't know how to make it "talk" to the USB serial port instead.
Anything that starts with "set console..." gives a "no settable
parameters"
error.
Thanks for any hints.
-Charles
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13 Sep
13 Sep
4:23 p.m.
On Friday, September 13, 2019 at 15:42, Charles via cctalk wrote:
I could use a hint... I have a USB to current-loop
(Volpe) interface
board, and Windows 7 on my laptop does recognize it as COM4 at 110
baud. So far so good. No problem hooking it up to my ASR-33 Teletype.
Now I'd really like to figure out how to set SIMH to use the 33 as the
console, so the TTY will be attached to the virtual PDP-8.
Section 3.14, "Console Options" of the "SIMH Users' Guide V4.0"
suggests
that:
set console serial=com4;110-8n2
...should work (though you might need "7e2" or "7o2" instead,
depending on
how your Teletype is set up).
Anything that starts with "set console..."
gives a "no settable
parameters" error.
Does the above also give this error?
-- Dave
4:31 p.m.
I'm using a slightly older SIMH and user's guide (3.8 something). This SIMH
will not allow Set Console Serial, apparently (No settable parameter
I only found the suggestion for Telnet in my user guide, so I did Set
Console Telnet:23. It does accept that.
So now I was just trying to use Tera Term which defaults to port 23... Is it
even possible to run Tera Term in one window and SIMH in another, and have
them connect via Telnet if on the same laptop?
Before I start messing with the actual hardware (USB converter and TTY)?
thanks
Charles
-----Original Message-----
From: J. David Bryan
Sent: Friday, September 13, 2019 6:23 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Cc: Charles
Subject: Re: Connecting SIMH to teletype via USB
On Friday, September 13, 2019 at 15:42, Charles via cctalk wrote:
I could use a hint... I have a USB to current-loop
(Volpe) interface
board, and Windows 7 on my laptop does recognize it as COM4 at 110
baud. So far so good. No problem hooking it up to my ASR-33 Teletype.
Now I'd really like to figure out how to set SIMH to use the 33 as the
console, so the TTY will be attached to the virtual PDP-8.
Section 3.14, "Console Options" of the "SIMH Users' Guide V4.0"
suggests
that:
set console serial=com4;110-8n2
...should work (though you might need "7e2" or "7o2" instead,
depending on
how your Teletype is set up).
Anything that starts with "set console..."
gives a "no settable
parameters" error.
Does the above also give this error?
-- Dave
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9:09 p.m.
On Friday, September 13, 2019 at 18:31, Charles via cctalk wrote:
I'm using a slightly older SIMH and user's
guide (3.8 something). This
SIMH will not allow Set Console Serial, apparently
Serial support is not present in versions prior to 4.0.
On Friday, September 13, 2019 at 20:56, Charles via cctalk wrote:
I just downloaded the latest version 4 from GitHub and
sure enough it
does accept SET CONSOLE SERIAL. Now I just have to figure out the port
name since it doesn't like COM4:
Enter the port name without the colon (i.e., "COM4" and not "COM4:").
You'll need to include the optional port configuration, which defaults to
9600 baud if omitted.
You can verify the valid host port names with a SHOW SERIAL command.
-- Dave
14 Sep
14 Sep
12:22 a.m.
El s?b., 14 sept. 2019 6:09, J. David Bryan via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> escribi?:
On Friday, September 13, 2019 at 18:31, Charles via
cctalk wrote:
I plugged in one DEC VT220 terminal to a version of SIMH 3.x running UNIX
V7 (and CP/M and CTSS but that's another story) about four years ago, by
serial port. I used one utility program (available for free at this time)
to redirect a serial port to tcp/ip. I don't have its name at hand now,
sorry.
Regards,
Sergio
I'm using a slightly older SIMH and
user's guide (3.8 something). This
SIMH will not allow Set Console Serial, apparently
Serial support is not present in versions prior to 4.0.
6:08 a.m.
l?r 2019-09-14 klockan 09:22 +0200 skrev SPC via cctalk:
El s?b., 14 sept. 2019 6:09, J. David Bryan via cctalk
<
cctalk at classiccmp.org> escribi?:
Which is basically what you would find inside a console port server ie
a box with a lot of serial ports connected to console ports on servers.
ssh and telnet to specific ports or if the console server has several
ip addresses assigned ssh to port 22 on an specific IP address.
On Friday, September 13, 2019 at 18:31, Charles
via cctalk wrote:
I plugged in one DEC VT220 terminal to a version of SIMH 3.x running
UNIX
V7 (and CP/M and CTSS but that's another story) about four years ago,
by
serial port. I used one utility program (available for free at this
time)
to redirect a serial port to tcp/ip. I don't have its name at hand
now,
sorry.
Regards,
Sergio I'm using a slightly older SIMH and
user's guide (3.8 something).
This
SIMH will not allow Set Console Serial, apparently
Serial support is not present in versions prior to 4.0.
6:11 a.m.
l?r 2019-09-14 klockan 09:22 +0200 skrev SPC via cctalk:
El s?b., 14 sept. 2019 6:09, J. David Bryan via cctalk
<
cctalk at classiccmp.org> escribi?:
conserver ?
It should be possible to turn it around ie using it for the opposite of
its usual usage
On Friday, September 13, 2019 at 18:31, Charles
via cctalk wrote:
I plugged in one DEC VT220 terminal to a version of SIMH 3.x running
UNIX
V7 (and CP/M and CTSS but that's another story) about four years ago,
by
serial port. I used one utility program (available for free at this
time)
to redirect a serial port to tcp/ip. I don't have its name at hand
now,
sorry.
Regards,
Sergio I'm using a slightly older SIMH and
user's guide (3.8 something).
This
SIMH will not allow Set Console Serial, apparently
Serial support is not present in versions prior to 4.0.
13 Sep
13 Sep
4:46 p.m.
Update: got my SIMH (set console telnet:23) talking to PuTTY in another
window, via Telnet 127.0.0.1:23.
So it is possible ;)
Now it's time to hook up the actual TTY to the USB-current loop card and see
what's what!
-----Original Message-----
From: J. David Bryan
Sent: Friday, September 13, 2019 6:23 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Cc: Charles
Subject: Re: Connecting SIMH to teletype via USB
On Friday, September 13, 2019 at 15:42, Charles via cctalk wrote:
I could use a hint... I have a USB to current-loop
(Volpe) interface
board, and Windows 7 on my laptop does recognize it as COM4 at 110
baud. So far so good. No problem hooking it up to my ASR-33 Teletype.
Now I'd really like to figure out how to set SIMH to use the 33 as the
console, so the TTY will be attached to the virtual PDP-8.
Section 3.14, "Console Options" of the "SIMH Users' Guide V4.0"
suggests
that:
set console serial=com4;110-8n2
...should work (though you might need "7e2" or "7o2" instead,
depending on
how your Teletype is set up).
Anything that starts with "set console..."
gives a "no settable
parameters" error.
Does the above also give this error?
-- Dave
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