Roger, what I want to accomplish at this time is what you are doing. I download
a slew of programs from old archives and I haven't a means of getting them into
my M100 with the hardware I have now. Today I will order the Belkin cable. At
$2 bucks and shipping it's worth having around.
I appreciate all the comments and suggestions offered up here. Resurrecting my
M100 is totally about spending time in the past. I don't need this to work for
any project or importance. The M100 was my first working computer. It was the
late 80s. I was a Property and Casualty Insurance Agent in a small agency,
looking for an automated means of contact management. It worked. It worked
well. So I look forward to playing around with the options given. It's not the
destination that I look forward to, but how much I can learn on the way there.
Forward to the Past! :)
-----Original Message-----
From: Roger Mullins <km4...@gmail.com>
To: Model 100 Discussion <m100@lists.bitchin100.com>
Sent: Fri, Apr 28, 2017 3:11 am
Subject: Re: [M100] Questions regarding Full Null Modem Cables, specif Serial
to USB
Right, that's what it takes for minicom to work properly. My distro is actually
a hard drive install of Puppy - I have an ancient HP laptop and Puppy was the
only one that could find my particular Broadcom wireless adapter.
Anyhow, that cable works great for no more than I do with it, which is
basically transferring downloaded files to my M100.
Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device
-------- Original message --------
From: Daryl Tester <dt-m...@handcraftedcomputers.com.au>
Date: 04/27/2017 9:06 PM (GMT-05:00)
To: m100@lists.bitchin100.com
Subject: Re: [M100] Questions regarding Full Null Modem Cables, specif Serial
to USB
Roger wrote:
> I also use Linux, running minicom to communicate with my M100 on
> ttyd0. From the command line:
>
> rm /dev/ttyd0
> ln -s ttyUSB0 /dev/ttyd0
> minicom
On Thu, 27 Apr 2017 20:33:59 -0400, Paul Bucalo wrote:
> You said you are also using Linux. What flavor of Linux are you
> running that uses ttyd instead of ttyS for serial devices? I only
> know
> of BSD/*nix that uses that device designation.
I think he's done that for minicom default reasons, not Linux reasons.
You can override it (of course) to point at whatever device you like,
the caveat being that USB serial devices tend to dynamically jump all
over the place (unless there is some udev magic).
--
Regards,
Daryl Tester
Handcrafted Computers Pty. Ltd.
