Re: Apple //e as serial terminal

[kragen@dnaco.net (Kragen Sitaker)]

In article <37e9294f.5990877@news>, Jeff Blakeney <CUTblakeney@home.com> wrote:
>On Tue, 21 Sep 1999 17:55:58 GMT, kragen@dnaco.net (Kragen Sitaker)
>wrote:
>>Louis Cornelio has kindly offered to sell me a Super Serial Card; I
>>suspect that should be quite sufficient.  (I am given to understand
>>that the //e occasionally drops characters even at 19200 bps, due to
>>missed interrupts; if this is true, faster wires won't buy me
>>anything.)
>
>If the IIe is unenhanced then you will most likely drop characters at
>19,200 bps, especially if the data is scrolling the text display.
>However, if the IIe is enhanced, the chances of dropped characters are
>much less.

I have questions about this, but I think I should read the
comp.sys.apple2 FAQ thoroughly before asking them in the newsgroup.
Thank you very much for the info!

By the way, has anyone taken over the maintenance of the csa2 FAQ?

>Also, the Super Serial Card has a problem with hardware handshaking
>where it will cut off a character partway through transmitting it if
>the handshaking line tells it to stop sending.  This can be fixed but
>I don't remember the details.

Thanks for the info!
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