[GreenKeys] USB-teletype adapters at SMECC! Notes... Ideas and help needed

[epvgk at limpoc.com]

On Fri, May 06, 2016 at 03:31:15AM -0400, COURYHOUSE at aol.com wrote:
> CONGRATS ERIC  I LOVE THIS!  (Board is small!  I  kept loosing it on the  
> desk!)
> 
> OK yes the  PUTTY looks pretty  good  but   before I saw  your message 
>  
> Thanks  to Dave also for the Kermit  suggestion.
> 
> I was  loading the  hyperterm off  win xp  sitting next to  this  win 7 
> system.
> this  little  board is   neat.. I have  it  talking!  Now I just  need a 
> neat  60 mil   
> loop power supply and  a box  to seal the  
> supply  and  this  board in so it can not be  diddled   with.

I use putty, but all those choices seem fine. 

I'm kinda hoping someone will have a go at setting up HeavyMetal, you can do so much
more with it than with just a terminal program, and these boards work perfectly with
it.  (put them in "notranslate" mode for best compatibility) 

Maybe I should send one to Javier, too. 

> Does anyone have a ready to roll isolated compact  60  supply  they can 
> part with>


I bought a 120VDC power supply module on ebay for around $50 and added a big fat
2k resistor. It's not actually that compact but it puts out enough current to run
the M19 tape punch as well as the loop.  Though just looking now the prices seem
to have shot up to $140ish for what looks like the same module... weird. 


>  I do not know how to enter   things to 
> make  bell sounds  from this  ASCII keyboard un,less the  
> ctl  G  translates to the baudot bell... Eric?  help?  advice?

Yes indeed, ctrl-G translates to FIGS-S by default. If you have bell on some other
character you can change the map, but I've never seen it as anything other than figs-S.


> <<<ENHANCEMENT IDEA>>> Might be  neat to  have a SHOWMSG  to   print the 
> msg in memory

Yeah, that is pretty easy.  I'll add it to the next version. 

> <<<ENHANCEMENT IDEA>>>  a  way to  enter  message  from a prepared  file 
> that  was it   could be 
> edited and formatted ahead of  time ( and spell  checked   which I always 
> need.  

I just type it up in a file and then use cut-n-paste to enter it into automsg. 


> Ok  it  would be  good to have an autostart   fro these UPI printers I 
> wonder how many line feeds
> I would have to execute before it came up to speed  to  print?  

Autostart on my 28 only takes one or two character times to come up to speed. 
This gives me the idea of having a way to send the character sequence to power down
machines that have that function... my 28 has a motor relay triggered by figs-null-h
or something like that, I could probably have it send that to the tty on receipt of
some unusual ascii character from the usb side. 

eric