[Coco] Testing CoCo3 serial port.

[afra at aurigae.demon.co.uk]

Quoting Mark McDougall <msmcdoug at iinet.net.au>:

> Phill Harvey-Smith wrote:
>
>> Hi is there any way that I can verify that the serial port on my  
>> CoCo3 is working correctly, I have it wired up to my PC via a 3  
>> wire cable and am having problems getting it to work in drivewire  
>> (though DW works fine on my CoCo2 with the same cable).
>
> The simplest way I can think of would be to physically loop-back the  
> TX & RX pins on the connector at the coco end and run a serial  
> terminal program on the coco. You should see any typed characters  
> 'echoed' back.

Could someone sugest a suitable program and where I might get it ?
Can the bit-banger be accessed from basic that way I could run a  
terminal program on the pc and send/read characters to it.

Cheers.

Phill.


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