[GreenKeys] USB-teletype adapters

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Thanks Eric!  just as  fast as we ask  you make  it happen!  KUDOS!
 
now if  only people can sms messages     to  the tty......
 
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In a message dated 6/5/2016 8:59:26 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
epvgk at limpoc.com writes:

Yeah,  the autoprint thing was a bit of a last minute addition. It will  
accept
backspaces for correction but that's about it. I had imagined people  would 
just
type and edit text in Notepad or something and then cut-n-paste  it via a 
terminal
program. 

Since it sounds like a lot of people  would like a more feature-filled 
autoprint
solution, I've been thinking  about a way to do it. Using a Raspberry Pi or 
other
small single board  computer, a couple of switches, and one of these 
interface
boards might be  the way to go. You could put text on an SD card and have 
it print
to the  loop when a button is pushed. More buttons, more choice of texts to 
 print.
Raspberry Pi Zero is <$20 and more than sufficient for the task.  I'll look 
into 
a basic setup that could be installed to accomplish that.  


eric

On Sun, Jun 05, 2016 at 09:22:51PM -0400, Duncan Brown  wrote:
> Thanks to Eric and everyone who offered terminal  programs!
> 
> Presently, I'm using old W7 laptops with serial  ports at home and at the 
AWA
> Museum, so I don't really need the USB  interface (yet).  My main interest
> with these boards was the  on-board "automessage/autoprint" feature which
> should work well for  demos at the Museum.
> 
> I finally decided to go with ExtraPuTTY  (the original PuTTY would 
probably
> be OK, too) as a terminal program  due to its text editing ability. I  
found
> that with the TeraTerm  and Terminal.exe programs, if you make a mistake
> while entering text  or a command, you can correct the text on the screen,
> but the  correction is not transmitted. (It is like there are separate 
screen
>  & transmit buffers, and you can only correct the screen buffer.) When  
you
> are entering short commands, this is not a big problem. But  (unless you 
are
> a perfect typist) entering hundreds of characters can  be very 
frustrating.
> ExtraPuTTY handles corrections to the display  properly, so text entry is
> much easier.
> 
> ExtraPuTTY  also saves your configuration, so that you don't have to set 
it
> up  each time you open the program. (If the other programs offered this, I
>  couldn't find it.)
> 
> Have fun,
> 
> Duncan
>  K2OEQ
> 
> 
> 
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