[GreenKeys] USB-teletype adapters

[epvgk at limpoc.com]

On Mon, Jun 06, 2016 at 02:07:43AM -0400, COURYHOUSE at aol.com wrote:
> Thanks Eric!  just as  fast as we ask  you make  it happen!  KUDOS!
>  
> now if  only people can sms messages     to  the tty......

That's pretty easy if you have a computer running heavymetal at least. 

>  
> Ed# _www.smecc.org_ (http://www.smecc.org)   
> 
> 
> 
> 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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