Re: [time-nuts] 57600 baud rate with Basic etc

2012-10-11 Thread shalimr9
@febo.com Sent: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 11:09 AM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] 57600 baud rate with Basic etc Hi Again, I'd say it's the lowest common denominator. Synchronous comm using RS-232 levels on a DB-25 came before asynchronous comm. It's long dead. Being first isn't *always* best. Same could be said

Re: [time-nuts] 57600 baud rate with Basic etc

2012-10-10 Thread paul swed
Murray we offered up the same thing for pretty much the same reasons. Good to know I am in fine company. Hmmm Ham + free??? Any link? Regards Paul WB8TSL On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 4:05 AM, Murray Greenman denw...@orcon.net.nzwrote: Corby, Power Basic certainly does the job. However, there's a

Re: [time-nuts] 57600 baud rate with Basic etc

2012-10-10 Thread paul swed
You know there is one other aspect of this question from Corby. How do I say this. Age. If you are using the old basics then things like the latest basic by different names are quite convoluted and distracting. They are designed for mobile phone apps. You know those crazy modern apps that sell. We

Re: [time-nuts] 57600 baud rate with Basic etc

2012-10-10 Thread David
What aspects of USB would HP have used? Just the complexity of a USB OHCI/UHCI would have been economically prohibitive compared to an asynchronous serial UART. An OHCI/UHCI is more like an ethernet controller and those took up the space of entire expansion boards initially. What they did

Re: [time-nuts] 57600 baud rate with Basic etc

2012-10-10 Thread paul swed
David it was humor Regards On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 10:53 AM, David davidwh...@gmail.com wrote: What aspects of USB would HP have used? Just the complexity of a USB OHCI/UHCI would have been economically prohibitive compared to an asynchronous serial UART. An OHCI/UHCI is more like an

Re: [time-nuts] 57600 baud rate with Basic etc

2012-10-10 Thread David
Ah well, I missed it but only because I have seen other people make the same suggestion seriously in the recent past. Where is my box of 2102 DRAMs? I left it around here somewhere. On Wed, 10 Oct 2012 11:15:32 -0400, paul swed paulsw...@gmail.com wrote: David it was humor Regards On Wed, Oct

Re: [time-nuts] 57600 baud rate with Basic???

2012-10-10 Thread Tom Van Baak
Hi Corby, Do consider John's TimeLab program: Windows, free, easy to use, wonderful live plots, phase, frequency, ADEV, etc. You will be amazed. Download from http://www.ke5fx.com/timelab/readme.htm It supports the SR620 directly as well as a number of other popular counters. For unusual

Re: [time-nuts] 57600 baud rate with Basic etc

2012-10-10 Thread Bob Camp
and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] 57600 baud rate with Basic etc What aspects of USB would HP have used? Just the complexity of a USB OHCI/UHCI would have been economically prohibitive compared to an asynchronous serial UART. An OHCI/UHCI is more like an ethernet controller and those

Re: [time-nuts] 57600 baud rate with Basic etc

2012-10-10 Thread Michael Tharp
On 10/10/2012 11:49 AM, Bob Camp wrote: No easy solution. Serial com is still with us because it's a lowest common denominator. I'm sitting here coding it into a new product right now (once the uber super compiler finishes a build). It's supported on just about every chip set in the universe. I

Re: [time-nuts] 57600 baud rate with Basic etc

2012-10-10 Thread Bob Camp
-Original Message- From: time-nuts-boun...@febo.com [mailto:time-nuts-boun...@febo.com] On Behalf Of Michael Tharp Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 11:55 AM To: time-nuts@febo.com Subject: Re: [time-nuts] 57600 baud rate with Basic etc On 10/10/2012 11:49 AM, Bob Camp wrote: No easy

Re: [time-nuts] 57600 baud rate with Basic etc

2012-10-10 Thread Don Latham
Commodore computers in the longago dimdark past serialized the GPIB. They started out with the GPIB as the disk drive and printer interface from the get-go. I used a Commodore as a cheap controller when Hp GPIB controllers cost a small fortune. Don David What aspects of USB would HP have used?

Re: [time-nuts] 57600 baud rate with Basic etc

2012-10-10 Thread David
To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] 57600 baud rate with Basic etc What aspects of USB would HP have used? Just the complexity of a USB OHCI/UHCI would have been economically prohibitive compared to an asynchronous serial UART. An OHCI/UHCI is more like

Re: [time-nuts] 57600 baud rate with Basic???

2012-10-09 Thread paul swed
Great question I think the newer basics have no problem with that rate and also many more com ports. I seem to recall liberty basic free and for $59 you get a distro license or more lines of code or something. The basics out their seem pretty capable these days. You still have Windows VB also.

Re: [time-nuts] 57600 baud rate with Basic???

2012-10-09 Thread Alan Melia
Hi Corby I havent checked Liberty Basic but I believe it does support 57.6kBd.. I have definitely used this speed on PowerBasic for Windows which is a latter day upgrade of Borland stable, I believe, but very is very different to GWBasic or QBasic (which is also limited to 9600Bd) and is much

Re: [time-nuts] 57600 baud rate with Basic???

2012-10-09 Thread Don Latham
Have a look at Robot Basic http://www.robotbasic.org/ he price is right, it's easy to use, and transportable. Don cdel...@juno.com Hi, I'm currently using a GWBasic program at 9600 Baud to get 1 second T.I. data (12 digits) from an SR620 counter, display the reading , put the reading into a

Re: [time-nuts] 57600 baud rate with Basic???

2012-10-09 Thread shalimr9
I am pretty sure good old Visual Basic Pro version 6.0 (and newer) supports to 115kb. GW Basic officially makes you a dinosaur... Didier KO4BB Sent from my Droid Razr 4G LTE wireless tracker. -Original Message- From: cdel...@juno.com To: time-nuts@febo.com Sent: Tue, 09 Oct 2012

Re: [time-nuts] 57600 baud rate with Basic???

2012-10-09 Thread Chris Albertson
I don't know abut Windows but onother OSes I can pipe the serial port trough some other program, even one as simple as cat and then you BASIC program can read the data from cat's output and not have to even know about serial ports. I'm pretty sure this works in Wndows. BASIC will think it is

Re: [time-nuts] 57600 baud rate with Basic???

2012-10-09 Thread Alan Melia
measurement time-nuts@febo.com Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2012 7:55 PM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] 57600 baud rate with Basic??? I am pretty sure good old Visual Basic Pro version 6.0 (and newer) supports to 115kb. GW Basic officially makes you a ... Didier KO4BB Sent from my Droid Razr 4G LTE

Re: [time-nuts] 57600 baud rate with Basic???

2012-10-09 Thread paul swed
: shali...@gmail.com To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement time-nuts@febo.com Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2012 7:55 PM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] 57600 baud rate with Basic??? I am pretty sure good old Visual Basic Pro version 6.0 (and newer) supports to 115kb. GW Basic

Re: [time-nuts] 57600 baud rate with Basic???

2012-10-09 Thread Bob Camp
4:10 PM To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement Subject: Re: [time-nuts] 57600 baud rate with Basic??? Looked at powerbasic and yes it supports the higher rates. Various pricing models up to $200 and $50 for a paperback manual. It looks pretty interesting. But at least liberty

Re: [time-nuts] 57600 baud rate with Basic???

2012-10-09 Thread Randy D. Hunt
On 10/9/2012 11:55 AM, shali...@gmail.com wrote: I am pretty sure good old Visual Basic Pro version 6.0 (and newer) supports to 115kb. GW Basic officially makes you a dinosaur... Didier KO4BB Sent from my Droid Razr 4G LTE wireless tracker. -Original Message- From:

Re: [time-nuts] 57600 baud rate with Basic???

2012-10-09 Thread Thomas S. Knutsen
- Original Message - From: shali...@gmail.com To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement time-nuts@febo.com Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2012 7:55 PM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] 57600 baud rate with Basic??? I am pretty sure good old Visual Basic Pro version 6.0 (and newer

Re: [time-nuts] 57600 baud rate with Basic???

2012-10-09 Thread Ed, k1ggi
Hi Corby, Before you go to all the trouble of venturing into unfamiliar waters, code a few inps and outs to poke a 2 into the uart divisor latch and give it a try. I just tried poking 3 to pull in some 38.4k NMEA strings and its fine. Using v3.22 and W7/32. Ed -Original Message- From: