Only never in Canada - dumb terminals

Bill Gunshannon bill.gunshannon at hotmail.com
Sat Mar 23 11:15:05 CDT 2019


On 3/23/19 12:07 PM, Mike Stein via cctalk wrote:
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>> On 3/23/2019 2:41 AM, Henk Gooijen wrote:
>>> Would this be useful?
>>>
>>> http://geoffg.net/terminal.html
>>>
>>> Henk, PA8PDP
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>> It would be if it had RS232 rather than TTL? outputs.
>> To source all that stuff with the high price of USA to Canada shipping
>> it would be about $150? Canadian as a guess.
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> I'm just about to build one of those; looks like the cost will be more like C$40.00 including 9 extra PCBs.
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> As to RS-232, it can provide TTL or 0-3.3V 'pseudo-RS-232' which usually works in my experience, but if you need 'true' RS-232 there are tiny TTL<>RS-232 adapters on eBay for < $2.00
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> I believe Rich Cini built one; maybe he can add something

Where does one get the board?  Are you planning to offer any
of your extras for sale?  I could definitely use one or two
of them.

bill



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