On Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 10:34 PM B 9 <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 21, 2022 at 5:10 PM John R. Hogerhuis <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Given that it wasn't actually using flow control I see no reason to make
>> a simple 3 wire cable fail. It's punishingly opinionated. Sort of like
>> Frank Lloyd Wright building interior walls at an angle because he didn't
>> like people hanging pictures in the houses he made for them.
>>
>
> Heh! I heard they hung pictures anyway. And, of course, I agree that
> TELCOM shouldn't have cared about DSR unless it had a mighty good reason.
>
> Let's see if I got this right,
>
>    Model 100: Ignores DSR
>    Tandy 200: Becomes punishingly opinionated about DSR
>    Tandy 102: Goes back to ignoring DSR
>
> Maybe someone at Microsoft was attempting to add flow control to the Tandy
> 200 ROM and got it partially done before they had to ship.
>
> Does anyone know how to check the DSR register on the UART from BASIC? I
> see something about I/O ports in the service manual
> <https://archive.org/details/Model_200_Portable_Computer_Service_Manual_19xx_Tandy/page/n22/mode/1up?view=theater>,
> but I'm not clear what port I should be reading or how.
>

https://bitchin100.com/wiki/index.php?title=Model_100_Serial_Interface

There's a I/O map at the end of the page. Did you mean Model 100/T102 or
Tandy 200? There is an article on the wiki but I think it was copied from
the Model 100 one as a starting point. Probably needs work.

 -- John.

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