On Jun 14, 2015, at 2:00 PM, Ethan Dicks <ethan.di...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I wouldn't assume anything with serial ports, especially vintage ones. > Look into getting a "traffic light" that displays state on LEDs Back in college in the HP lab we had these really nice RS232 breakout boxes with jumper pins and LEDs that were in a sort of pink case. While I used them all the time I can no longer remember who made them or find anything close. > Also, some hardware needs hardware flow control present and working. > Newer stuff is fast enough that mostly, people just do 3-wire serial > (RxD, TxD, and GND), but stuff from the 1970s is expecting CTS and RTS > and all that to do the proper things. The manual says that it uses DTR for flow control and doesn’t mention DSR, so I suspect it’s a one-way thing like the HP terminals and only tells the other end to stop and will send whenever it wants without checking if it’s ok. -- Follow me on twitter: @FozzTexx Check out my blog: http://insentricity.com
