[net.micro.amiga] AmigaTerm and Amiga Serial Port

hull@hao.UUCP (Howard Hull) (12/25/85)

First a couple of minor corrections to the referenced article (mine).
> 	LC1 -iinclude/ AmigaTerm
> note that the source file was named "AmigaTerm", and they don't want the
should have been
note that the source file was named "AmigaTerm.c", and they don't want the
> ".c" extension to appear in the name given in the command line.
and I think
> Link FROM /lib/Lstartup.obj+AmigaTerm.o LIBRARY /lib/lc.lib+/lib/amiga.lib TO Terminal
should have been
Alink FROM lib/Lstartup.obj+AmigaTerm.o LIBRARY lib/lc.lib+lib/amiga.lib TO Terminal

Others have said this before, but be advised that the Amiga serial port has
POWER on pins 14, 21, and 23.  IT WILL FRY YOUR MODEM if you don't first impart
violence on your modem cable by cutting the wires associated with these pins!
For instance, my VADIC 3451P has nothing on pin 14, but has Remote Digital
Loopback (RDL) on pin 21 and Speed Select (SS) on pin 23.  I'll bet the pin 21
+5 signal would send the modem out singing a song our mainframe really never
wanted to hear.

To Commodore Amiga:
   The engineer who let CBM push him/her into releasing this design should be
sentenced to torture by bunga-bunga.  C'mon people, give us a break! Connectors
don't cost that much.  If you want external power, use *that* for your &%$#"!
DB23 and save several somebodys out there about $100,000 total damage to their
collective equipment.
								     Howard Hull
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                   ...Then only the deranged will discuss yet unproven concepts]
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