Re: Zenith terminal & Vax Monitor

Thanks Dave,

The terminal has no "none" setting for parity, but setting it to "add" 
seems to work fine now. :)

On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, Dave McGuire wrote:

> Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 16:44:21 -0500
> From: Dave McGuire <mcguire@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: wysoft@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: port-vax@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Zenith terminal & Vax Monitor
>
> On Dec 19, 2005, at 4:13 PM, wysoft@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > I have a Zenith Z-29 terminal hooked up to a 4000/VLC. No matter which term 
> > type I set the Zenith to, I can't get the monitor to accept most of the 
> > commands I put in. For example, "show dev" or "show ver" would both return 
> > "ILL CMD." To be honest, this is the first time I've used a real serial 
> > terminal. I'm pressing the "line feed" key to enter the command in. 
> > Pressing "return" simply seems to add spaces to the end of the current 
> > line, rather than entering it in the way that I would expect from a PC.
> >
> > The "?" command does show a list of available commands. As stated before, 
> > all of them return "ILL CMD."
>
>  Check the stop bits and/or parity settings...the correct settings should be 
> 8 data bits, no parity, and one stop bit.
>
> > I can hook the Vax up to my PC to get through the monitor, but I'd like to 
> > be able to use this Zenith terminal for the full retro experience.
>
>  Interesting. ;)  You'll find using a terminal to be MUCH more reliable and 
> predictable than using terminal emulation software on another computer, 
> especially a PeeCee.
>
>          -Dave
>
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