Date   : Sun, 04 Jan 2015 11:05:29 -0000
From   : jumbos.bazzar@... (Mark Haysman)
Subject: USB to serial adapters and the BBC Micro

You could write a ROM that would do the switching commands after the OS has
powered up? Is there a Model B version of the Terminal program in the Master
OS? Doesn?t this do the same thing if initialised before BASIC?

If you have a DataCentre, it can be configured to boot a program on powerup,
that could then control the USB slave port of the DC and communicate directly
with the PC, as it uses the FTDI USB Drivers PC side.

Mark.

From: nicola giacobbe 
Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2015 10:43 AM
To: Pete Turnbull ; bbc-micro@... 
Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] USB to serial adapters and the BBC Micro

I am sorry if this question comes out a little OT but I couldn't think of
a better place to pose it.
Is there some way to automatically have the beeb using the serial port as
console at power-up?
I would like to control the beeb from remote but someone must send the switching
FX commands, I have reached the point where thinking of designing a keyboard
simulator or to control the machine via 1MHz bus seem a rational choice...



> Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2015 00:16:38 +0000
> From: pete@...
> To: bbc-micro@...
> Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] USB to serial adapters and the BBC Micro
> 
> On 03/01/2015 23:48, Wookie wrote:
> > Has anyone used a FTDI USB to RS-232 serial adapter between a pc and a
> > Beeb ?
> >
> > Do they work ? and can you configure them for a slowish baud such as
> > 2400 or 4800 ? all I can see is 115Kbps.
> 
> The Beeb is one of the world's least fussy machines when it comes to 
> RS232-style connectivity, and the FTDI range are amongst the most 
> respected USB-to-serial range - few others handle all the handshake 
> lines correctly - so it should be a no-brainer. I've not needed to use 
> one from laptop to Beeb, but I do use them on other machines at many 
> different speeds; normally 9600 or 1200, but they should do all the 
> standard speeds from 75 up, except probably not 110. I assume you're 
> thinking of a COM232-PLUS module or one like it.
> 
> -- 
> Pete
> 
> Pete Turnbull
> 
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