On 6/26/21 7:11 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
On 6/26/21 3:42 PM, Jules Richardson via cctalk wrote:
The panels at the tops of the racks all seem to say Adage. Perhaps the
blinkenlights panel is theirs, too?
The entire system is an Adage Graphics Terminal
There are some docs now up
On 6/26/21 3:42 PM, Jules Richardson via cctalk wrote:
>
> The panels at the tops of the racks all seem to say Adage. Perhaps the
> blinkenlights panel is theirs, too?
>
>
>
The entire system is an Adage Graphics Terminal
There are some docs now up under http://bitsavers.org/pdf/adage/agt
On Fri, 25 Jun 2021, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
> > Well you can find mother boards with real COM port, but they are rare.
>
> One place you can find them easily is on industrial computers. My
> firewall machine is one, because I wanted it to be fanless. It has the
> usual pile of USB
On 6/24/21 12:37 PM, Mike Begley via cctalk wrote:
Other recognizable hardware are a couple of ASR33 teletypes (one of
which was rebadged as Adage), and some tape drives, the manufacture I
don't recognize. Everything else, I pretty much can't make out what any
of it is, but perhaps someone
Unfortunately, with newer M1 macs and BigSur you are limited to FTDI USB serial
dongles since there’s no new prolific driver AFAIK. At least the FTDI driver
is included out of the box.
I’ve had really good luck when I’ve needed slow/odd speeds with the Comtrol RPS
series of Ethernet connected
Thank you for the links Glen. I'll add them to my reading like.
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die
On 2021-Jun-26, at 10:15 AM, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
>> On Jun 26, 2021, at 11:31 AM, Tapley, Mark B. via cctalk
>> wrote:
>>
>> At one point FTDI had a reasonably good reputation, and I own one of those
>> devices based on that reputation. I have used it with no obvious problems
>>
On 6/26/21 3:16 AM, Adrian Graham via cctalk wrote:
My orginal email was pretty much it unfortunately, since it was borne
out of a thread on Stag PPZ EPROM programmers.
ACK
I saw the EPROM programmer tweet. I didn't pay much attention to it,
not my bag, and thus didn't see the reply about
On 6/26/21 6:43 AM, Peter Corlett via cctalk wrote:
A bit of both. The USB communications device class (CDC) is designed
for modems, and it can be hit-and-miss trying to speak to something
else.
Are you commenting about USB-to-Serial (a.k.a. FTDI) devices or USB
devices in general?
I
On 6/26/21 9:31 AM, Tapley, Mark B. via cctalk wrote:
Are there any particular pitfalls I should watch out for with the
FTDI device, when/if I can get back to working with it?
I've used -- what I'll generically call -- FTDI devices one or more
times a year for the last decade or more.
> On Jun 26, 2021, at 11:31 AM, Tapley, Mark B. via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> At one point FTDI had a reasonably good reputation, and I own one of those
> devices based on that reputation. I have used it with no obvious problems
> connecting a TRS Color Computer 3 to an iMac G3 for a
On Jun 26, 2021, at 7:43 AM, Peter Corlett via cctalk
mailto:cctalk@classiccmp.org>> wrote:
...
A bit of both. The USB communications device class (CDC) is designed for
modems, and it can be hit-and-miss trying to speak to something else. Of
course, that doesn't prevent one from ignoring that
On Fri, Jun 25, 2021 at 04:53:08PM -0600, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
> On 6/25/21 2:48 AM, Peter Corlett via cctalk wrote:
[...]
>> The other is in the software layer: the standards are a mess and the
>> full gamut of serial protocols are not available and/or not implemented
>> properly.
> I
On Sat, 26 Jun 2021 at 00:31, Grant Taylor via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Would you mind sharing link(s) to said conversation? It sounds like one
> I'd like to learn from / maybe be part of.
Would appear to be:
https://twitter.com/BinaryDinosaurs/status/1407993695006232579
Twitter has a search
> On 25 Jun 2021, at 23:31, Grant Taylor via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> On 6/25/21 2:07 AM, Adrian Graham via cctalk wrote:
>> Hello folks,
>
> Hi,
>
>> A random conversation on twitter yesterday lead me to discovering an old
>> 1980s LAN technology called INFAPLUG.
>
> Would you mind sharing
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