[GreenKeys] Carriage return delays

John Nagle nagle at animats.com
Thu Oct 15 15:20:51 EDT 2009


> From: B Degnan <billdeg at degnanco.com>
> Subject: [GreenKeys] ASR33 Fell over- ouch!
> To: greenkeys at mailman.qth.net
> 
   The 33 does send and
> receive commands to my SWTPC 6800 computer, but when the carriage 
> returns it's slow to get into the start position, and does not complete 
> the trip until after the first character is printed.  Because the 
> carriage is still sliding back to the left, the 2nd character is printed 
> where the 1st should be, and the 3rd is typed over the 1st as the 
> carriage moves right horizontally typing the line on the page.

    That's normal.  You have to send extra CR or NUL characters to
allow for carriage return time.  There's support for that in most
older software.

    If the carriage is really slow, you may have to clean and
oil the machine.

					John Nagle


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