In article <Pine.LNX.3.95.980305030941.24164B-
100000_at_behemoth.host4u.net>, Doug Yowza <yowza_at_yowza.com> writes
>On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Russ Blakeman wrote:
>It was a welcome challenge trying to get the Sanyo to do things the other
>PC's could do. And it was pretty hackable. I remember porting KERMIT to
>work with the non-standard serial ports (8251?) after Sanyo sent me the
>source of their BIOS.... OK, I also remember running away from the Sanyo
>as fast as I could once the cheap clones from Taiwan got off the boat.
I once had a commission from a QC (=Queen's Counsel) to try to work out
why the nice daisy-wheel printer he had bought was messing up the
printout from Wordstar running on his Sanyo.
After much messing around with cables, printer settings and everything
else, we found that the Sanyo BIOS had a 60s or so timeout on the serial
transmit, and when it timed out it would just drop the character and
return, which is a little bit embarrassing when you're printing out
high-powered legal documents.
The first fix was to disable the 16k buffer in the printer so that it
couldn't sit there for minutes at a time draining the buffer down to the
point at which it turned DTR back on, but a friend at Sanyo patched the
BIOS to make the timeout much longer. After that everyone was happy,
except perhaps whoever was being sued by the QC to pay my bill.
--
Lawrence Wilkinson ljw_at_formula1.demon.co.uk
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Received on Thu Mar 05 1998 - 06:15:08 GMT