Tatung Computer Forum

John, Great to hear you have resurrected another Einstein. I use a BBC->SCART cable with my Einstein and it works fine, so I think the pinout should be compatible. Having said that I have it plugged into an OSSC to generate an HDMI signal for my monitor. According to this page http://www ...

So it turns out that neither TTY or UKM7EIN2 use any form of flow control, which explains why characters get dropped when the screen scrolls if they are connected at anything above 300 baud. (TTY does have an XON/XOFF option, but that only seems to be used when you exit a session to go back to the ...

I'm tickled that this is still the most recently active thread having posted my question 8 months ago*, but I do have a follow up question ... Is anyone maintaining a reliable serial connection on their Einstein at anything above 300 baud? I am trying UKM7EIN2.COM (a version of MODEM7) and TTY.COM ...

I'm not sure when I developed a masochistic need to "keep things authentic" and avoid sensible solutions like goteks, but now with a homebrew serial cable and EinTrans happily running under Wine in Windows 98 mode I am able to create some disks for my Albie. I have a random smattering of operating ...

Thanks Lardo. The external GoTek is a very cool setup - and I could probably get all the bits for less than the price of a couple of CF2 blank disks. One thing did pique my perverse interest in using mouldy old disks to store all my valuable data - I have a lovely set of Cumana twin DSDD 5.25" disk ...

I thought I should say hello after lurking for a while. I bought a twin drive TC-01 (is that a TC-02?) while visiting family in the UK last year. It had the usual "blank display, no alpha-lock" symptoms, so having waited for it to be shipped back home to New Zealand with some other goodies, it has ...