Looking for “modem lights” program
Guys — I have my 11/23 working with an emulated TU58 connected to a serial port. Does any one know of a port activity indicator program for the Windows system tray? Long ago, you remember, when using a modem there was the little modem icon with red/green LEDs. I’m looking for that to monitor the serial port. I found one shareware program but it only shows the status of the handshaking signals and not RX/TX. Thanks! Rich Get Outlook for iOS<https://aka.ms/o0ukef>
I don’t off hand, but I do know hardware boxes that do this are in the $30 range on eBay. On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 8:39 PM Richard Cini via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Guys —
I have my 11/23 working with an emulated TU58 connected to a serial port. Does any one know of a port activity indicator program for the Windows system tray? Long ago, you remember, when using a modem there was the little modem icon with red/green LEDs. I’m looking for that to monitor the serial port.
I found one shareware program but it only shows the status of the handshaking signals and not RX/TX.
Thanks! Rich
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-- Jason Perkins 313 355 0085 Sent from my iPhone
Thanks. I do have in-line testers but I was looking for a little something for the desktop rather than having to grab the cable and look. The search continues! Get Outlook for iOS<https://aka.ms/o0ukef> ________________________________ From: Jason Perkins <perkins.jason@gmail.com> Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2019 10:25 AM To: vcf-midatlantic Cc: Richard Cini Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Looking for “modem lights” program I don’t off hand, but I do know hardware boxes that do this are in the $30 range on eBay. On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 8:39 PM Richard Cini via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org<mailto:vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org>> wrote: Guys — I have my 11/23 working with an emulated TU58 connected to a serial port. Does any one know of a port activity indicator program for the Windows system tray? Long ago, you remember, when using a modem there was the little modem icon with red/green LEDs. I’m looking for that to monitor the serial port. I found one shareware program but it only shows the status of the handshaking signals and not RX/TX. Thanks! Rich Get Outlook for iOS<https://aka.ms/o0ukef> -- Jason Perkins 313 355 0085 Sent from my iPhone
I was lucky enough to come across an Apple IIe and C64 at the Techno Swap Fest in Maryland today. I was on the fence but the Apple IIe was in very good condition with some additional boards (80 char, memory, CP/M) and the color monitor and duo disk drive with a bunch of accessories and software. The C64 comes with a power supply, joystick, some cables and software. Paid $125 for everything so it seemed fair compared to eBay / CL prices I could find. Also they threw in an ImageWriter II if anyone is interested in it please let me know. I'll bring these both up to the next repair workshop I can attend for some guidance on them. Likely in April. Thanks and looking forward to collaborating with everyone soon.
Whatever you do, don’t use original power supplies with the C64. They decay over time and will fry the mainboard (there’s no overvoltage protection). Get a modern replacement! —Thomas F.
On Feb 23, 2019, at 4:01 PM, CT via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I was lucky enough to come across an Apple IIe and C64 at the Techno Swap Fest in Maryland today. I was on the fence but the Apple IIe was in very good condition with some additional boards (80 char, memory, CP/M) and the color monitor and duo disk drive with a bunch of accessories and software. The C64 comes with a power supply, joystick, some cables and software. Paid $125 for everything so it seemed fair compared to eBay / CL prices I could find.
Also they threw in an ImageWriter II if anyone is interested in it please let me know.
I'll bring these both up to the next repair workshop I can attend for some guidance on them. Likely in April.
Thanks and looking forward to collaborating with everyone soon.
I have two original C64 PSUs; I saw a few people made replacements for the PSU, but at least the open design one is too large to fit inside a c64 psu 'brick' AFAIK. See https://greisisworkbench.blogspot.com/2017/03/hi-here-is-my-design-for-c64-a... for the open design, and https://fr.retrogamesupply.com/blogs/news/update-on-the-c64-power-supply?pag... for the 'closed, commercial' design. The original PSU is a simple linear design plus a 3052P, a resistor, and two capacitors for the 5v section, see the schematic at https://semi-nerdly.ca/2018/06/24/building-my-replacement-commodore-64-power... The issue is commodore usually(?) filled the c64 and c128 'bricks' with epoxy or something similar, and this prevents replacing the capacitors when they inevitably go bad, or when the voltage regulator or diodes die/short and start dumping rectified 9VAC directly into the 5VDC input of the c64. There's no crowbar circuit or fuses on the 5VDC output, and just a 3A fuse on one pin of the 9VAC output. On 2/23/2019 5:51 PM, Thomas Fuchs via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Whatever you do, don’t use original power supplies with the C64. They decay over time and will fry the mainboard (there’s no overvoltage protection). Get a modern replacement!
—Thomas F.
On Feb 23, 2019, at 4:01 PM, CT via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I was lucky enough to come across an Apple IIe and C64 at the Techno Swap Fest in Maryland today. I was on the fence but the Apple IIe was in very good condition with some additional boards (80 char, memory, CP/M) and the color monitor and duo disk drive with a bunch of accessories and software. The C64 comes with a power supply, joystick, some cables and software. Paid $125 for everything so it seemed fair compared to eBay / CL prices I could find.
Also they threw in an ImageWriter II if anyone is interested in it please let me know.
I'll bring these both up to the next repair workshop I can attend for some guidance on them. Likely in April.
Thanks and looking forward to collaborating with everyone soon.
-- Jonathan Gevaryahu jgevaryahu@gmail.com jgevaryahu@hotmail.com
Some people found a way to make it fit. https://youtu.be/Fej_3XbufRA This guy also makes the “Nubrick” which Jeff B. and I have. On Feb 23, 2019, at 10:09 PM, Jonathan Gevaryahu via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote: I have two original C64 PSUs; I saw a few people made replacements for the PSU, but at least the open design one is too large to fit inside a c64 psu 'brick' AFAIK. See https://greisisworkbench.blogspot.com/2017/03/hi-here-is-my-design-for-c64-a... for the open design, and https://fr.retrogamesupply.com/blogs/news/update-on-the-c64-power-supply?pag... for the 'closed, commercial' design. The original PSU is a simple linear design plus a 3052P, a resistor, and two capacitors for the 5v section, see the schematic at https://semi-nerdly.ca/2018/06/24/building-my-replacement-commodore-64-power... The issue is commodore usually(?) filled the c64 and c128 'bricks' with epoxy or something similar, and this prevents replacing the capacitors when they inevitably go bad, or when the voltage regulator or diodes die/short and start dumping rectified 9VAC directly into the 5VDC input of the c64. There's no crowbar circuit or fuses on the 5VDC output, and just a 3A fuse on one pin of the 9VAC output.
On 2/23/2019 5:51 PM, Thomas Fuchs via vcf-midatlantic wrote: Whatever you do, don’t use original power supplies with the C64. They decay over time and will fry the mainboard (there’s no overvoltage protection). Get a modern replacement!
—Thomas F.
On Feb 23, 2019, at 4:01 PM, CT via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I was lucky enough to come across an Apple IIe and C64 at the Techno Swap Fest in Maryland today. I was on the fence but the Apple IIe was in very good condition with some additional boards (80 char, memory, CP/M) and the color monitor and duo disk drive with a bunch of accessories and software. The C64 comes with a power supply, joystick, some cables and software. Paid $125 for everything so it seemed fair compared to eBay / CL prices I could find.
Also they threw in an ImageWriter II if anyone is interested in it please let me know.
I'll bring these both up to the next repair workshop I can attend for some guidance on them. Likely in April.
Thanks and looking forward to collaborating with everyone soon.
-- Jonathan Gevaryahu jgevaryahu@gmail.com jgevaryahu@hotmail.com
On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 5:51 PM Thomas Fuchs via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Whatever you do, don’t use original power supplies with the C64. They decay over time and will fry the mainboard (there’s no overvoltage protection). Get a modern replacement!
Yes. Either get a modern replacement or fix the old one. I heard that it is an easy fix. —Thomas F.
On Feb 23, 2019, at 4:01 PM, CT via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I was lucky enough to come across an Apple IIe and C64 at the Techno Swap Fest in Maryland today. I was on the fence but the Apple IIe was in very good condition with some additional boards (80 char, memory, CP/M) and the color monitor and duo disk drive with a bunch of accessories and software. The C64 comes with a power supply, joystick, some cables and software. Paid $125 for everything so it seemed fair compared to eBay / CL prices I could find.
Also they threw in an ImageWriter II if anyone is interested in it please let me know.
I'll bring these both up to the next repair workshop I can attend for some guidance on them. Likely in April.
Thanks and looking forward to collaborating with everyone soon.
-- ========================================= Jeff Brace Vice President Vintage Computer Federation
IIRC the 'realterm' terminal emulator can display many of the serial status lights. I used this with that project with the arduino during repair shop back in 2016. https://sourceforge.net/projects/realterm/ On 2/22/2019 8:39 PM, Richard Cini via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Guys —
I have my 11/23 working with an emulated TU58 connected to a serial port. Does any one know of a port activity indicator program for the Windows system tray? Long ago, you remember, when using a modem there was the little modem icon with red/green LEDs. I’m looking for that to monitor the serial port.
I found one shareware program but it only shows the status of the handshaking signals and not RX/TX.
Thanks! Rich
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-- Jonathan Gevaryahu jgevaryahu@gmail.com jgevaryahu@hotmail.com
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