Simple, DEC terminals like to use Xon/Xoff flow control protocal
and will run ok without it if the baud rate is low enough.
You have two choices either hardware flowcontrol, or enable
and use xon/xoff. I'd suggest the latter as it's the common way
for DEC systems.
Allison
-----Original Message-----
From: Zane H. Healy <healyzh_at_aracnet.com>
To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Date: Sunday, September 30, 2001 2:22 PM
Subject: Attaching a VT100 to a PC....
>OK, I managed to dig out a VT100 out of storage. Of course the first
path
>I burrowed all the way back led to a VT103, so I had to dig an even more
>difficult path.
>
>Anyway, I've got it hooked up to the Intel 810e board I'm using for my
>Desktop PDP-10 project. I've got Linux set so I can log in and do
stuff.
>The terminal seems happiest working at 9600. Under TOPS-10 V7.03 I can
do
>a DIR in a small directory and everything is fine, but if I run it in a
big
>directory such as SYS:, then I get slightly garbled data. Same thing if
I
>run a SYSTAT, it's garbled, especially the last part.
>
>I'm not up on Serial stuff and I've seen simular results hooking up one
of
>my VT420's to Sun Sparc. Is the problem my cabling, or what? At the
>moment I'm using what looks to be a LapLink cable (or the equivalent).
For
>the finished project I plan to build a custom cable.
>
> Zane
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Received on Sun Sep 30 2001 - 13:59:50 BST