>>>>> "Kirk" == Kirk Reiser <kirk at braille.uwo.ca> writes:
Hi Kirk
Kirk> Hi Roman: I think we need a tad more clarification. When you
Kirk> say it doesn't support handshaking, do you mean hardware or
Kirk> xon/xoff? Another question is do you have a modem at 0x3E8 by
Kirk> chance?
No, I don't have modem there, I tried to connect Apollo only (test 1)
and both Apollo and braille terminal - Alva (test 2) which is usual
setup.
This information about handshaking may be misleading because I received
it from my colleague who purchased Apollo whom I asked for advice in the
first place and he was able to tell me more.
Kirk> The Apolo2 at the best of times does a piss poor job of
Kirk> handshaking. I don't know why they designed it the way they
Kirk> did but there is no excuse in my mind for totally violating
Kirk> the rs-232C standard. I had a hell of a time getting it to
Kirk> work consistantly in the first place.
Ah, I see. It's always hard to make buggy hardware work. More praise on
you for trying to do so! :-)
Kirk> The time outs are basically the synth not raising the CTS line
Kirk> appropriately. Let me know also what version of the ROM you
Kirk> have maybe we can adjust the time out values to get to work
Kirk> correctly.
And how can I do it - is there a command which could make Apollo to say
or to return the ROM version?
Roman
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