The Linux version of PuTTY works nicely with serial ports. On Apr 27, 2017 17:31, "Paul Bucalo" <pm...@aol.com> wrote:
> Thanks, Jonathon. I'm good on diagrams--I still have the original manual, > plus what I have scrounged through Club 100 and after-market books. At > least I know 'your' diagram really works. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jonathan Yuen <jonathan.y...@slu.se> > To: Model 100 Discussion <m100@lists.bitchin100.com> > Sent: Thu, Apr 27, 2017 2:23 pm > Subject: Re: [M100] Questions regarding Full Null Modem Cables, specif > Serial to USB > > Hello again, > > I found some notes and I hope it is the one I used: > > DB9 DB25 > Rx 2 Tx 2 > Tx 3 Rx 3 > Dtr 4 Dsr 6 > Gnd 5 Gnd 7 > Dsr 6 Dtr 20 > Rts 7 Cts 5 > Cts 8 Rts 4 > 1 8 I think I wrote DCD for this pin but I'm pretty sloppy writing..... > > Jonathan > > jonathan.y...@mykopat.slu.se > ________________________________________ > Från: M100 [m100-boun...@lists.bitchin100.com] för Paul Bucalo [ > pm...@aol.com] > Skickat: den 27 april 2017 19:48 > Till: m100@lists.bitchin100.com > Ämne: Re: [M100] Questions regarding Full Null Modem Cables, specif Serial > to USB > > I just did a search on eBay for a Belkin F3x171-10. Only listing that came > up was selling for $50. Yeah, not going to happen. I'll look around to see > if anyone sells the cable for a reasonable price, but chances are high I'll > end up making up a DB25-to-DB9 cable set. I sure wish I hadn't thrown out > the one I made years ago, back when I was actively working with my M100. > Live and (probably never) learn. > > I'll give HTERM a try. I had forgotten about utf-8 coding. Thanks for the > reminder. > > Thanks, John. > > -----Original Message----- > From: John R. Hogerhuis <jho...@pobox.com> > To: Model 100 Discussion <m100@lists.bitchin100.com> > Sent: Thu, Apr 27, 2017 1:23 pm > Subject: Re: [M100] Questions regarding Full Null Modem Cables, specif > Serial to USB > > > > On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 10:10 AM, Paul Bucalo <pm...@aol.com<mailto:pmbuc@ > aol.com <pm...@aol.com?>>> wrote: > I was hoping for a rationale based on experience, i.e., USB works well or > not at all. Doesn't really matter much. Most likely I will make up a new > cable using DB25-to-DB9. > > > My favorite cable is the full-null belkin serial laplink cable, if you can > find one. Never had a problem with any of them, ever. f3x171-10, but they > are hard to find these days though they were very cheap for a while. To use > with Model T, you need to have a db-25 gender changer. > > But generally, you need a full-null cable. I wouldn't go with 3 wire > cables since you may want to experiment with hardware flow control (HTERM, > my bare bones / dumb terminal to Linux) given that you hook to Linux which > overruns the Model T 64-byte serial buffer when using software flow control. > > Also Linux utilities throw in UTF-8 and lots of formatting codes. HTERM > maps to/from utf-8 and strips ANSI color escapes, stuff like that. > > One thing to be aware of is some cables bump into the Model100 case and > keep it from mating properly. You may have to shave some off the housing to > make it fit, or ideally find one that fits into the space available, after > adding the thin-hood gender changer. > > USB on the PC side is fine. I recommend only devices with FTDI chipsets, > however (not Prolific). The FTDI drivers generally allow more > configurability which ends up being necessary with TS-DOS (TS-DOS loves to > time-out... remember USB serial devices have a tendency to delay/collect > bytes to "efficiently" send a larger packet). > > -- John. >
