On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Peter Coghlan <cct...@beyondthepale.ie> wrote: >> >> The usual answer, from back in the day, was to make sure hardware flow >> control was on and working at higher speeds. If you don't have that, >> you are going to lose > 9600 baud. I spent way too much time pulling >> fat cable to enable this after we'd wired the building with 3-wire >> cable for the VT52's and cute 'headphone' plug-in jacks back in my >> high school days... >> > > Generally, DEC didn't have hardware flow control at that time because it was > not in the standard. I'm pretty sure there was no hardware flow control > available on the VT100. It used XON/XOFF.
I may be misremembering when we did this: with the VT100, VT102 or VT220's. Warner
