[vcf-midatlantic] Looking for a TI Silent 707 1200baud for the VCF Museum

[David Williams]

Just tried dumping a text file to my 703 at 1200 baud and you're right, 
after about 500 characters or so, it can't keep up with the input. Is 
there any way to put a delay after characters / line on Simh? I tested 
again by dumping the same text file via TeraTerm using a 15ms delay per 
character and 350ms per line and it seemed to work fine.

Tricky bit might be the ROM as it's an 512x8 PROM (82S147) I've managed 
to image it though if anybody wants a copy.

Cheers,
Dave


On 14/10/2016 00:23, Corey Cohen wrote:
> Correction.  We need a 703, my bad the 707 has a built in modem.  The 
> 703 is the RS232 version.  The 1200 baud version has a dual print head 
> so it can keep up with the speed vs the 300 baud version with a single 
> print head.
>
> We may use one of our dec writers, but it's rather large so we would 
> have to find a space vs the TI Silent which is small.
>
> Thanks,
> Cheers,
> Corey
>
> *corey cohen*
>
> *uǝɥoɔ ʎǝɹoɔ*
>
>
> On Oct 12, 2016, at 3:33 PM, David Williams via vcf-midatlantic 
> <vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org 
> <mailto:vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org>> wrote:
>
>> On 11/10/2016 23:12, Corey Cohen wrote:
>>> I'm donating a spare PiDP-8 to the museum which has a serial 
>>> interface that can't go below 1200baud.    If we can find one of the 
>>>  smaller TI Silent terminals that goes that fast, we can hook it up 
>>> to the PiDP so that we can have it run hands on demos and visitors 
>>> can take the result with them.  It would be really cool for people 
>>> to have a takeaway from the museum when they visit.
>>>
>>> So if anyone has one of these TI Silent units they can donate to VCF 
>>> Museum let me know.
>>>
>> Corey,
>>
>> I'm in the UK so probably not worth shipping an actual unit but I do 
>> have a couple of 703's that can switch between 300 & 1200 baud. I 
>> believe the only differrence  to a standard 300 baud unit is a ROM 
>> upgrade. I can see if I can dump the ROM if that is any help to you?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Dave