Need NEC APC manuals

From: Tom Jennings <tomj_at_wps.com>
Date: Fri Feb 25 15:04:48 2005

On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:

> I once used my APC to dump a bunch of source code from some 8" CP/M disks
> over the serial port using PIP. I remember I had to do something special
> to setup the COMM port to do this. I've tried messing with STAT to assign
> the AXO: port (equivalent to PTP: on most CP/M versions) but nothing I do
> works. When I do pip axo:=b:filename.txt it reads the file and then locks
> up. I can't break or anything to interrupt it. Nothing comes over the
> serial port on my PC end and I don't see any lights blinking on my
> breakout box.

Have you tried simply jumpering everything to everything? Meaning,
drive all the inputs (RTS/CTS, CD, DSR, etc as appropriate) from
one side's DTR and see if it goes?
Received on Fri Feb 25 2005 - 15:04:48 GMT