Paper Tape Emulator

[Vintage Computer Festival]

On Mon, 2 May 2005, woodelf wrote:

> I just read recently that the windows drivers DON'T handle handshaking
> correctly. Here is a link on some old PDF's about paper tape readers/punch
> interfacing. Anybody want to grab them for future reference.
> http://www.fastec.com/technotes/

As a general rule I don't do anything requiring serial access to older
computers on Windows 9x unless it's a native Windows32 application.
Otherwise, the serial port emulation really sucks and you invariably have
problems.  I either work under real DOS, or I use a native app (like a
version of Procomm for Win32).

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Sellam Ismail                                        Vintage Computer Festival
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