Re: Got myself a Tiger Learning Computer today

[Eric Rucker <bhtooefr@gmail.com>]

On Sep 3, 12:32 pm, schmidtd <schmi...@my-deja.com> wrote:
> On Sep 3, 11:47 am, Eric Rucker <bhtoo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Sep 2, 9:56 pm, schmidtd <schmi...@my-deja.com> wrote:
>
> > > I'm not convinced the serial port is viable on my machine.  I get the
> > > normal status out of the status register when nothing's attached, but
> > > when I hook up the other side via a null modem, the status doesn't
> > > change (at all) the way other SSC machines do.  So, lots of tweaks to
> > > the configuration registers later, I still don't have anything coming
> > > out the wire.
>
> > Could it possibly be TTL levels, rather than RS-232 levels?
>
> On a Commodore 64, sure - but this machine was made in 1996.  The
> advertisements suggested that there was an upcoming communications
> package that would connect to the 'net, which would (at the time) have
> required a typical external modem at the other end of the serial port.

Unless the external modem was going to be a proprietary model?