[GreenKeys] USB-teletype (current loop) Adapters available

[epvgk at limpoc.com]

On Sun, May 08, 2016 at 05:12:53PM -0400, Studio8H wrote:
> Eureka! I now have a happily humming WU 2-B, sounding like new, thanks to Eric???s USB Board!
> 
> Since I am mostly Mac, I am running the board using Cool-Term, an ASCII Terminal Emulator, on my MacBook, and cutting and pasting AP News into it. Flawless text copy.

hooray! Good to hear it. 

> 
> I spent several frustrating hours working on a PC with Heavy Metal, which I would love to get up and running. HM connects top the port, and sends the short string of RYs on the serial setup page easily. But when t???s asked to do anything longer, HM returns ???ERROR: Cannot write to port, port disabled." 

That's a bit odd. I have never tried running heavymetal in Windows, only in linux, but
that didn't happen with it in linux. I wonder if windows has some buffer size setting you
need to tweak in the Device Manager?  (the usb-tty adapter board deliberately does only
minimal buffering because when you want it to stop printing you want it to stop fast,
not wait several minutes for it to dump the rest of the buffer. :) 


> I am using the new INF file, and the two new files heavymetal.pl and CommPort.pm which Eric recently provided to N4TTY. I am using a Win7 machine.

I don't think that was me?  but maybe we're talking about different things. 

> 
> Many thanks to Eric for making the jump out of the RS-232-C world and providing a wonderful USB adapter. 
> I haven???t been this delighted with my TTY hobby in years and look forward to refining connections, and providing automatic news feeds to my AP Model 15.
> 
> Dan Beach
> KD4WLI