Omega-TI Posted August 7, 2019 Share Posted August 7, 2019 After I got my P-Box TIPI, I removed my HDX and the secondary RS-232 card because the TIPI does everything the HDX card and UDS-10 did with the exception of printing. But this begs the question, what to use the RS-232 for? Are there any ideas or useful gadgets we could build or use to hook up the RS-232 to give our legacy computer some extra capabilities? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tuf Posted August 7, 2019 Share Posted August 7, 2019 Something like this? https://www.commodoreserver.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+9640News Posted August 7, 2019 Share Posted August 7, 2019 I will use the RS232 card in another Geneve computer, as I do not have a second TIPI-PEBox card............... Still waiting for them to be offered again. Beery Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolhess Posted August 7, 2019 Share Posted August 7, 2019 I continue to use the printer port of my RS232 card. Sometimes I still use an RS232 interface for connecting to an old laptop. Wolfgang 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixelpedant Posted August 8, 2019 Share Posted August 8, 2019 (edited) Well, though I've not switched to a TIPI yet, seven different signal routing/processing devices in my setup are controlled via RS-232, so I'm never not going to be messing around with RS-232, myself. Audio/Video signals aside, I've got more RS-232 connections than I do anything else. Even USB or PS/2. So that'll never go away, in whatever combination of functional and frivolous uses. Since RS-232 is what gives my TI99 the ability to dictate how it is displayed/routed. Edited August 8, 2019 by pixelpedant 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted August 8, 2019 Author Share Posted August 8, 2019 How can you remember what is what? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixelpedant Posted August 8, 2019 Share Posted August 8, 2019 1 minute ago, --- Ω --- said: How can you remember what is what? A lot of very careful labelling of front panels. But the Extron devices can in three important cases store presets in internal memory. So once configured, selecting a configuration (my TI99 being preset 1) is just a matter of sending "1." via RS-232, in the case of the 8x8 matrix switch which is the main concern, for example. Or, somewhat more complicatedly, sending "2127H1019/0470:0504;" to the VSC-500 to adjust the picture to my favoured TI99-suitable dimensions. I feel very strongly that my TI99 should be able to adjust its own CRT output picture aspect ratio 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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