Thanks gents. Being new to the 102 - USB game, I find that every step of the way needs another adapter gizmo. And the correct male/female connector for the gizmo is often an unexpected "gotcha".
For some reason I'd thought that the serial-usb cable would eliminate the need for the null modem. Live and learn. Tom M. On Fri, Mar 29, 2019 at 3:21 PM Tom Dison <fretina...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yeah, I just did that same thing, and added a cheap Null-Modern adapter > in-line and all was good. I keep an set of male-male and female-female > Null-Modern l adapters, plus a bunch of gender adapters around just in > case. So far I've connected M100, Epson PX-8, Cambridge Z88, Amstrad NC200 > running CP/M and a bunch of DOS palmtops. The USB serial adapter has lights > for RTS, CTS, TxD, RxD etc. I highly recommend that for troubleshooting. My > hardest was a Poqet PC Plus where I had to build a custom cable from an old > Toshiba External floppy. I connect it to a RPI Zero and surf the modern web > with Links2. > > On Fri, Mar 29, 2019, 2:09 PM John R. Hogerhuis <jho...@pobox.com> wrote: > >> Yes you need a cable wired as a null modem or you need a null modem >> adapter on a straight through cable. >> >> -- John >> >
