[Coco] Rs232 Pack

[phil pt]

Please take a look at the Rs232 pack manual
http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/coco/Documents/Manuals/Hardware/Deluxe%20RS-232%20Operation%20Manual%20(Tandy).pdf
Ribbs and several other coco programs used to in dialup and communications.



On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 10:55 PM Gene Heskett <gheskett at shentel.net> wrote:

> On Monday 17 December 2018 21:18:42 phil pt wrote:
>
> > I do not think that is going to work. I think the Rs232 pack support
> > will need to be added. The T2 Drivers is the software which use the
> > Rs232 Pack to communicate.
>
> /t2 s not the driver Phil, its the descriptor, and it has pointed at at
> least 2 different drivers over the history of os9/nitros9  On a coco2, I
> used aciapak.dr, which worked fine at 2400 baud but I have also used the
> sacia.dr, which also worked fine, but in the leadup to the full nitros9,
> apparently a very handy patch, I believe by Rick Adams who wrote RiBBS
> has been discarded from the nitros9 sources, perhaps whoever was
> reviewing and "optimizing the code" took it out because they wre never
> aware of it, and hardware flow control hasn't worked at my place since.
> It consisted of instructions to swap a couple pins on the 6551, and a
> patch to the driver, I forget which one now, which made 7 wire flow
> control work perfectly. If that patch could be located again, I might be
> co-erced into updating it so it works again. Somewhere in my travails
> with an original B&B XT-RTC, that patch got overwritten & lost forever
> to me.
>
> If that patch could be dug out of someones archive and made available, it
> sure would be nice. If you look at the tech docs for the 6551, you will
> come to the conclusion its a broken chip as shipped, and this patch
> fixes it.
>
> Its possible that the lack of this patch is what you are fighting with. I
> also no longer have a copy of RiBBS, due to the same problem I had from
> the gitgo with the original B&B XT-RTC controller, it had a nasty habit
> of handing os9 a sector of the allocation map that was 256 bytes of
> 0x00's. The net result was that that page of the allocation map was then
> considered empty and allocateable for new file storage overwriting what
> was there. RiBBS was just one loss of many. That was on my original hard
> drive, a 30 meg RLL drive. I spent more time rebuilding the filesystem,
> learning everything there is to know about it, than in actually useing
> it. Almost gave up and went back to a TI-99/4A I still have but its  not
> been powered up in about 30 years now.
>
> > On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 11:49 AM Gene Heskett <gheskett at shentel.net>
> wrote:
> > > On Monday 17 December 2018 07:52:27 phil pt wrote:
> > > > The old Rs232 pack so that the old programs like Ribbs bbs may
> > > > work and without re-writting several hundred lines of codes.
> > > > There is also old programs that support the Rs232 pack.
> > >
> > > Nitros9 supports it at any address you hack it to, just make it what
> > > fits in your hardware by dmodeing the descriptor for /t2. Unless
> > > RiBBS carries its own driver it shouldn't care.
> > >
> > > > On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 7:42 AM rietveld rietveld
> > > > <rietveldh at hotmail.com>
> > > >
> > > > wrote:
> > > > > What support were you hoping to add.   I know DW is now
> > > > > supported by David Ladd
> > > > >
> > > > > Sent from my BlackBerry
> > > > >   Original Message
> > > > > From: phil pt
> > > > > Sent: Monday, December 17, 2018 7:25 AM
> > > > > To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> > > > > Reply To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> > > > > Subject: [Coco] Rs232 Pack
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Hello
> > > > >
> > > > > I know that I bought up this subject before but I think its very
> > > > > important that adding support for the RS232 pack would offer two
> > > > > things to the coco community.
> > > > >
> > > > > 1) Adding Rs232 pack using the same orginal address may allow
> > > > > the old software like Ribbs to work without having to re-write
> > > > > several hundred lines of code.
> > > > >
> > > > > 2) It may encourage more people to write applications for the
> > > > > coco and make it easer.
> > > > >
> > > > > Sorry I do not beleive if we used a smaller computer system back
> > > > > in the 60's to send a man to the mon and 6809 I think was used
> > > > > on the earler space shuttles nothing is impossible.
> > > > >
> > > > > Phil Taylor
> > > > >
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