Date   : Wed, 30 May 2007 10:22:35 +0100
From   : dominic@... (Dominic Beesley)
Subject: PC/Beeb serial cable woe

I too get 19200 baud reliably (using Tequilla comm) using the cable I 
describe below

All other cables the flow control simply didn't work - hence the reduced
speeds

Dom
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Hunt" <dm.hunt@...>
To: <bbc-micro@...>
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 1:30 AM
Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] PC/Beeb serial cable woe


>> Hi Kris,
>>
>> I too struggled with this problem and spent ages getting one
>> to work nicely. Various people seem to have had flame wars
>> over how this "should"
>> be done in the past - as usual the problem seems to lie in
>> the fact that PCs don't always work as they "should"!
>>
>> So when I did I wrote up my experiences see:
>> http://www.brahms.demon.co.uk/software
>>
>> It is the last article at the bottom of the page "Connecting
>> a BBC to a Linux PC" - Although it discusses Linux the cable
>> works ok with a PC running Windows too
>>
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Dom
>>
>
> My cable is the same as Dom's, I used 4 individually screened core cable 
> and
> I get a reliable 19,200 baud over 5m. It works on all my PCs including a
> 1989 vintage 386, I just set the port for CTS/RTS hardware flow control.
>
> Cheers
>
> Dave ;)
>
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