[Coco] RS-232 Pak problems

[Christopher R. Hawks]

On Sat, 3 Feb 2018 20:31:28 -0600
Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:

> > On Feb 3, 2018, at 7:20 PM, Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > I am trying to fire up my RS-232 Pak for the first time in ages.
> 
> Do I need to do some wiring to force the RS-232 pak to think there is
> a connection? i have:
> 
> RS232 PAK DB25 -> DB9 ——— TX/RX/GND DB9
> 
> Do I need to do something to force the RS232 Pak to see incoming data
> if I am not providing anything but TX, RX and GND?
> 

Allen:

    Like we always tell the newbies. Explain EXACTLY what you are
doing. You told how your CoCo is set up and about the cable. Is it
plugged in to something? What? My RS-232 pak doesn't have any lights...

    Also, I think I remember seeing on the list that the RS-232 pak does
not pass characters in to the receive registers without one of the
status lines being asserted (don't remember which).


Christopher R. Hawks
HAWKSoft
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