Re: Unable to get SIO card working
Hi Morgan,
Sorry, I missed this email post.? Ok, so where are you at now?? If you boil it down, the circuit either fails because of a bad component or bad circuitry.
It's a slow process, but
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joshbensadon
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#168
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Re: Unable to get SIO card working
Hello Josh,
Unfortunately I don't have one of those to test with. I'm mostly limited to just a multimeter at the moment.
Thanks,
Morgan
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Morgan
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#167
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Re: Unable to get SIO card working
Hi Morgan,?
I haven't actually measured the current draw on my boards, but 200mA was a guess at the most it should use.? I think 70mA is good enough.
If you put a scope on the UART output and
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joshbensadon
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Re: Unable to get SIO card working
Hello Richard,
The connectors seem to be fine, I've got continuity from the bottom board to the top and none of them are shorted to each other. Unless there's something I'm missing I'm thinking they
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Morgan
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#165
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Re: Unable to get SIO card working
I have found on my setup that the stacking connectors are particularly sensitive. Sometimes I need to play with the stack to get it working properly.
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Richard Cini
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Re: Unable to get SIO card working
Hello Josh,
I think I connected my multimeter correctly, I put it between the FTDI cable and the terminal on the side, and I ended up measuring ~70mA with the SIO and CPU cards. I tried out the other
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Morgan
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Re: Unable to get SIO card working
Hi Morgan,
Can you measure the current draw?? Should be about 200mA I think?? If it's too high, try removing the UART chip, it may be faulty? Try other chips, remove one at a time.
If you are in
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joshbensadon
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Unable to get SIO card working
Hello everyone, hope you're having a fine day!
I just picked up this kit a few weeks ago and I haven't been able to get the SIO card working. The front panel and CPU card work fine together but if I
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Morgan
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Re: SIO and Hayesmodem
Thanks Josh. Modem works fine with a PC dialing into the BBS so it’s not that. I found another CP/M modem program to try. I also got the 32k RAM today so I might swap that out as well and re-enable
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Richard Cini
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Re: SIO and Hayesmodem
Rich, I guess next step is try the modem on your PC terminal.??
Searchlight BBS? Cool, I used to run a BBS in the late 80's on Searchlight.? Frank LaRosa was the guy that made Searchlight.? Why
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joshbensadon
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#159
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Re: SIO and Hayesmodem
I had time today to try the handshaking loopback on the modem side and there was no change in the outcome. It will connect but do nothing. Hitting a key causes a disconnect.
I rebuilt the BBS server
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Richard Cini
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Re: Z80MC Front panel problem.
Hi Josh,
Thanks for the clarification.
I confirm it works fine.
Best Regards
Paul
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Paul Bigwood
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Re: A modern BBS
Thanks for the info on the 4-Port LAN adapter.? I've sent Terry an email asking about it.
David
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David Jones
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Re: SIO and Hayesmodem
Good point as always. Need to dig out my break-out box for that.
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Richard Cini
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Re: SIO and Hayesmodem
Might want to try looping back the RTS/CTS and the DTR/DSR pairs on the modem.? That might fool it to work with 3-wire RX/TX/Gnd RS-232
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joshbensadon
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Re: SIO and Hayesmodem
Thanks Mark. I never inspected the modems I have, but it’s worth a look based on your experiences.
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Richard Cini
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Re: SIO and Hayesmodem
Rich,
I had a number of Optima 144 modems, and they all had severe PCB damage
from leaked surface mount caps--more damage than I had the patience to
try to fix.
I was able to rescue/preserve a
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Mark Thomas
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Re: SIO and Hayesmodem
Yes. Synchronet 3.17 running on XP, which is Telnet only. It uses “COM-to-telnet” bridge software to support POTS. I had a spare PC handy so I set it up as a quick test to give the Z80MC something
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Richard Cini
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Re: SIO and Hayesmodem
rich: synchronet is running on a PC?
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Subject: Re: [Z80MC] SIO and Hayesmodem
Just a quick update
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bill rowe
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Re: SIO and Hayesmodem
Just a quick update on this. I have a BBS (Synchronet) running enough that I can dial-in from another PC and connect properly. I started with the Hayesmodem 300, which was painful, and then changed to
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Richard Cini
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