Hello, Thank you to everyone who responded!
It turns out the package containing my serial cable arrived today! It is a straight female to female DB9 to DB9, as mentioned in most of the replies. I plugged it up and it "just worked". Previously I was using a similar cable which had only three conductors + ground, obviously not a full serial cable. I suspected that to be the problem, and was just heading off any other potential obstructions while waiting for my cable to arrive. :-) I did not even realize there were jumpers inside the NADSBox, but since I wanted to retain compatibility with my (already working) M-100, I never touched those. Thank you also for the reminder about terminal mode; it's true that it makes it very easy to CD into the directory I want. So to reiterate: A straight DB9 to DB9 female serial cable worked perfectly. It literally plugs up and works. If you get one, make sure you get low-profile shrouds so they don't interfere with the WP2 or the NADSbox. I got digikey part #367-1145-ND, Manufacturer (Cinch) part #30-9506-77. Thanks again, and much appreciated. What a wonderful community! Cheers, Bert On 12/22/20 10:44 AM, Jim Anderson wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> >> Now I'm trying to get the NADSBox to work with the WP2 without success > > Does it entirely fail to work, ie. If you go into the WP-2's TELCOM with > F2-9, can you hit Enter and get the NADSBox command-line prompt? If you get > nothing at all, see below... > >> so far. For the moment I'm stuck because my serial cable is not a full >> null cable, so I've got a replacement on its way (snail mail is very > > So, unless you've changed the jumpers inside your NADSBox, you actually need > a straight cable - its serial port is wired DCE and doesn't require a null > cable to connect to a Model T or a WP-2 (which are both wired DTE, in spite > of what the connector gender differences imply). The adapter that comes with > the NADSBox is just 25M straight to 9F, and for use with the WP-2 you just > want 9F straight to 9F. At first I used a 9F to 9F cable, then I bought one > of those low-profile 9F-9F gender changers so the NADSBox could hang right > off the back of the WP-2. (Downside is that it fits quite loosely compared > with the adapter Ken provided for use with the Model Ts, and also those > compact adapters flip upside-down so you can only see the reflection of the > NADSBox LED in the table surface.) > >> My question is: Does there need to be any kind of file similar to >> DOS100.CO on the SD card for the NADSBox to work with the WP2? Or will >> it "just work"? > > No need for any special files - the WP-2 has everything it needs to speak to > a TPDD in ROM. > >> Can I also assume that I can just continue to use my existing SD Card >> with the M-100 6.2 filenames on it? Presumably it will just "find" the >> files in the root directory when I do a file listing? > > Yes, because the WP-2 was only designed to talk to a real TPDD it isn't aware > of the TS-DOS directory extensions we all know and love, so you will only see > whatever is in the TPDD emulator's current directory. One of the great > things about using the WP-2 with a NADSBox is that you can go into TELCOM and > use the cd command to move around your SD card to the directory you want. > When you go back to FILES and look at the disk contents, that's the directory > the WP-2 will see. > > You can read and write 6.2 and 8.2 files from the WP-2. There's a caution in > the NADSBox manual (bottom of page 20) about setting 'config wp2=on' from its > command line first because there are some circumstances under which the WP-2 > can crash because it doesn't handle 6.2 filenames elegantly (I'm not going to > paste the whole paragraph here). :) > > > > > > > > jim >
