[GreenKeys] New To Me 33 ASR

[Justin Scott]

Don,
Thanks for the info.  I will look into it a bit later, as I'm about to leave the house for work.

Indeed, it is my Altair 680 that I'm referring to - it can use a Baudot TTY as its terminal, as well as ASCII.  While I can also use my SWTPC 6800
with the 33, I have additional hardware for it that makes this unnecessary (i.e. the AC-30 cassette interface and the diskette subsystem as well).
However, I have no storage peripherals for the 680, so that is what I will use my 33 with, so I can use the punch/reader as storage media.  At least,
that's the plan.  

I have other machines I can use the 33 with as well, but in the short term the plan is to use it with the 680.  I think it would be neat to configure
the Baudot area of its IO section someday and run it with a teletype that fits the bill.

Will watch your videos and read the information a little later, thanks again!

cheers,
j

Don Sentz via GreenKeys(greenkeys) wrote:
> Hi Justin,
> 
> Great job on the ASR33!
> 
> In your first post, you said;
> I finally have things to connect it to (primary hobby is retrocomputing).....I'm interested in other machines as well.  I have one retro machine that will speak Baudot, and it would be interesting to have something that will work with it. 
> 
> I am sure you know well that the ASR33 can be the console terminal for a home microcomputer such as SWTPC 6800 or Altair or a host of others. 
> 
> You could have your ASR33 and your Baudot machine interfaced via the microcomputer. I have done essentially this recently, although I was using my Mac512K, and later my Windows 7 laptop, as the MIKBUG console for my homebrew MC6800 based microcomputer. See demo videos at 
> 
> If you have a 6800/MIKBUG based computer  with a user parallel port via the MC6820 PIA chip, you could use my hardware interface design and software driver to effect this interconnection.
> 
> See the following reports;
> Utility Manager
> https://www.scribd.com/doc/270452010/Utility-Manager-v4
> TTY Interface
> https://www.scribd.com/doc/270451901/Teletypewriter-Interface-for-Microcomputer
> 
> Demo Videos
> Episode 4  http://www.zippcast.com/video/31acf5aa666f99256a9
> Demo of Reading TTY Paper Tape into Win7 PC http://www.zippcast.com/video/8a0f40e3806bff93b64
> 
> 73
> Don
> 
> 
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