That cable should work fine for you - all I do is go into BASIC on the M100 and type
new load"com:38n1e" ...then launch minicom on my Linux box and use 'send file' and select the .BA (or whatever) file that I've downloaded. Actually I just realized I've never tried it in reverse but I suppose that would work as well. -Roger On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 7:16 AM, Paul Bucalo <[email protected]> wrote: > Roger, what I want to accomplish at this time is what you are doing. I > download a slew of programs from old archives and I haven't a means of > getting them into my M100 with the hardware I have now. Today I will order > the Belkin cable. At $2 bucks and shipping it's worth having around. > > I appreciate all the comments and suggestions offered up here. > Resurrecting my M100 is totally about spending time in the past. I don't > need this to work for any project or importance. The M100 was my first > working computer. It was the late 80s. I was a Property and Casualty > Insurance Agent in a small agency, looking for an automated means of > contact management. It worked. It worked well. So I look forward to playing > around with the options given. It's not the destination that I look forward > to, but how much I can learn on the way there. Forward to the Past! :) > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Roger Mullins <[email protected]> > To: Model 100 Discussion <[email protected]> > Sent: Fri, Apr 28, 2017 3:11 am > Subject: Re: [M100] Questions regarding Full Null Modem Cables, specif > Serial to USB > > Right, that's what it takes for minicom to work properly. My distro is > actually a hard drive install of Puppy - I have an ancient HP laptop and > Puppy was the only one that could find my particular Broadcom wireless > adapter. > > Anyhow, that cable works great for no more than I do with it, which is > basically transferring downloaded files to my M100. > > > Sent from my T-Mobile 4G LTE Device > > > -------- Original message -------- > From: Daryl Tester <[email protected]> > Date: 04/27/2017 9:06 PM (GMT-05:00) > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [M100] Questions regarding Full Null Modem Cables, specif > Serial to USB > > Roger wrote: > > > I also use Linux, running minicom to communicate with my M100 on > > ttyd0. From the command line: > > > > rm /dev/ttyd0 > > ln -s ttyUSB0 /dev/ttyd0 > > minicom > > On Thu, 27 Apr 2017 20:33:59 -0400, Paul Bucalo wrote: > > > You said you are also using Linux. What flavor of Linux are you > > running that uses ttyd instead of ttyS for serial devices? I only > > know > > of BSD/*nix that uses that device designation. > > I think he's done that for minicom default reasons, not Linux reasons. > You can override it (of course) to point at whatever device you like, > the caveat being that USB serial devices tend to dynamically jump all > over the place (unless there is some udev magic). > > -- > Regards, > Daryl Tester > Handcrafted Computers Pty. Ltd. >
