[GTALUG] Actual ttyS0 MIA

Stewart C. Russell scruss at gmail.com
Sun May 10 10:11:40 EDT 2020


On 2020-05-09 11:24 p.m., Alvin Starr via talk wrote:
> 
> That sucks that the pin layout no longer supports headers and ribbon 
> cables.

Oh, they do. Just you have to know what format your motherboard uses. 
This page is a decent guide to the difference:
https://www.frontx.com/pro/cpx102_2.html

My CP/M box is happily talking away to my Asus right now.

> I know people still using UUCP.

I still use SLIP and tcpser sometimes. I don't enjoy it, and once I have 
a known-working system I will preserve it because so much can go wrong.

cheers,
  Stewart


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