Foo factor - The desirability of FTDI v. Prolific is polluted by the sad fact that FTDI has done a better job of suppressing their counterfeiters;
this as of a few years ago, IMHO, YMMV... I've got Prolific devices which work, & some that don't. Rather than fight it, I stick to FTDI. I've had good luck with Adafruit FTDI-based devices; OTOH it's been awhile since I bought one... Good luck. ... On 1/12/18, Peter Vollan <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, darn it, I thought I had succeeded, again. I got a M ->F null > modem cable, and hooked it between the usb to serial cable and the db9 > to db25 cable. TS DOS on my model 100 will show the directory on the > host. Then when you try to download something, it says; no disk in > drive. Then it turns out the the file is in the m100's directory, but > either it is empty or it is fill of pages of "^@" with the wrong file > at the end. I can upload most of the time, though. So close, and yet > so far. I understand that I should not have to make my own adaptor, > but if I do, then I will know that it is right, and the problem is > something else. BTW I am back to using the "prolific" serial to usb > cable, the consensus seems to be that that part does not matter. > > > On 11 January 2018 at 07:45, Kurt McCullum <[email protected]> wrote: >> There is a pinout in the mComm manual in the members file area of >> Club100.org. It is under my name. Brian has tested a number of off the >> shelf >> cables and found several that work. But if you want the pinout, check the >> manual I put together. >> >> Kurt McCullum >> >> >> On Wednesday, January 10, 2018 3:48 PM, Peter Vollan >> <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> >> Where can I find a diagram of the correct null modem connection for >> the Model 100? I may make one myself to be sure to get it right. >> >> >
