What are you using as a TU?

I was toying with the idea a few years ago of building a minimal RTTY interface 
for my T102 with a couple tone decoder ICs, but I ended up working on MFORTH 
instead.

On May 6, 2026 7:22:24 AM UTC, Peter Noeth <[email protected]> wrote:
>B9,
>
>  I was working on a RTTY decoder, and I was using the BASIC program "
>RTTY.BA (https://ftp.whtech.com/club100/tel/rtty.ba)" and "RTTY.DO (
>https://ftp.whtech.com/club100/tel/rtty.do)" as a guide. This program will
>receive a serial data string on the RS232 port from the "Terminal Unit"
>(which converts two alternating audio tones to digital "1" and "0" levels.
>It can also send data to the "Terminal Unit" to change the digital "1" and
>"0" levels to the same two audio tones.
>
>  I wanted to make a program only for receive. I was using the "RTTY"
>program to understand how the PIO timer, which is used for the UART baud
>clock, was set to make the UART work at the odd speeds that were used "in
>the old days" by the BAUDOT encoded teletypes.
>
>John,
>
>  The "Inside the Model 100" book by Carl Oppedahl does not list FF8Dh. The
>last address noted is FF8B which is noted as "address of baud rate".
>
>  I have seen the notation in the "Covington ROM Map", and I believe this
>is where Ken got the same notation in his ROM listing (in his personal
>library on the Club100 page).  But it doesn't seem that Robert Covington
>ever wrote a book on the Model 100. For such a detailed ROM listing, I
>would have expected that he would have. He must have been involved in
>accessories for the Model 100 in some capacity.
>
>Regards,
>PeterN

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