Connecting SIMH to teletype via USB

[J. David Bryan]

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