>On Sunday, February 21st, 2016 at 23:57:22 +1300, Mike Ross wrote:
Well I haven't figured out exactly what the problem was but I'm
embarrassed to report it was indeed serial comms finger trouble. I
could have sworn that VT220 was fine and the cable wired correctly...
but to cover all bases I tried it with a USB serial port on the Mac
that sits in the lab.
It worked.
First time.
CONV011
Bugger me.
http://www.corestore.org/730cons.png
OK next is console tape... I have around 100 TU58 tapes. On close
examination the collection contained ONE console tape... for an 11/750
of course! So I'll be reaching for an emulator. Looking back at a long
thread on vintage-computers last year it appears that tu58em had
timing issues and was unusable on 11/730 but is now patched and
working correctly... watch this space!
Thanks for all the pointers.
Mike
On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 1:09 PM, j...@cimmeri.com <j...@cimmeri.com> wrote:
On 2/20/2016 7:03 PM, Mike Ross wrote:
I might just try all switches *closed* on the basis that maybe it was
wired wrong but... no doesn't make sense; the system would have been
operational when decommissioned; the switch settings as I received it
must be valid...
Make sure the switches are actually working. Often, they're not.
- J.
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