[GreenKeys] Those black boxes

David Ross ross at hypertools.com
Tue Dec 30 21:25:09 EST 2008


> Jeffrey Angus wrote:
>> I ordered three of them. They arrived today. Oh boy.
>>
>> So, of course, I want to play with it. I ended up building a little 
>> current loop monitor.
>> It took me a while to get the settings right.
>>
>> Set the box for Full Duplex, active. This supplies loop current for 
>> both the selector
>> magnets and the keyboard (wired seperately)
>>
>> Set the loop current to 60 mA (I'm running the Lorenz model 15 clone)
>>
>> Set the box for DCE
>>
>> Now the question I have, is what is a good terminal emulator that 
>> will properly
>> do 50  (or 45.45) baud 5-level Baudot code? So I can talk to the 
>> Lorenz via
>> a PC?

  Jeffrey -

  Try TTYSIM.  It is a simple teletype emulator which I wrote to run 
under MS-DOS on a GRiD PC.  It does OK in a Command Line window under 
XP.  It is tiny, comes with source code.  Get it at:
<http://www.hypertools.com/ttysim.zip>

good luck
Dave Ross    N7EPI




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