Re: Small favor - anyone in the UK make me a disk?

[Jim <jim@magrathea.plus.com>]

On 2007-09-20, Ewen <spectrumdaddy@nospam.com> wrote:
> Jim <jim@magrathea.plus.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the info, but don't worry about loooking for it - I'm taking
>> William up on his offer to send me an actual SSC. Once that's installed
>> most of my comms issues should be solved.
>
> I sent an email to your address above, and have not had any response
> from you. Is this a valid address, as I have suitable comms software for
> you?

Yes - sorry, I got your mail but didn't have enough time to reply to it this
morning.

> Your CCS7710 card should be fine, but from the photograph you posted, it
> does not look as though the switch block has been set to a suitable baud
> rate. With that setting, the card requires an external clock according
> to the CCS7710 manual.
>
> For 9600 baud, set switches 1-3 OFF, as they are in the photograph, and
> switch 4 ON or down.

Thanks - I actually managed to find a few (rather vague) references to it on
the Web and was able to select 9600 baud, which I used for the bootstrap
process of ADTPro.

> I am still not clear which model of the card you have. If you have the
> 7710A firmware, you have the standard comms card, but if you have less
> common 7710D firmware, it may not behave as expected.

I'm hopefully getting my hands on a real SSC sometime in the future, so with
a bit of luck all this will be academic. Many thanks for your help though,
it's appreciated.

Jim
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