[rescue] Anyone build this kit?

[Andy Wallis]

> I built up my Tindie kit, it works fine stand-alone, haven't had a chance
> to
> cobble together a serial cable and give it a try.
>
> I'm curious about your 'bad data' issue, can you expand on that?
>
> I'd be interested in a bit more details about PCBs you ordered. It looks
> like
> a great project, any idea of cost of the parts (too lazy to head to
> mouser/digi-key and look)? What is needed to program the PIC processor -
> I'm
> not familiar with them.
>> 0: https://www.tindie.com/products/petrohi/geoffs-vt100-terminal-kit/
>> 1: https://hackaday.io/project/173216-ascii-video-terminal

The bad data I've been getting is from a Soekris 4801 serial console. I've
been using that as my test machine since I can just quickly unplug the
power supply for a reset. The 4801s have a nice output of string of
letters and numbers followed by the POST banner.

I ran some DuPont cables between the TTL plug and a variety of DE9
components. I've tried some as plain TTL passthrough and ones with a RS232
converter.

If you set the serial kit to RS232, nothing will come up. If I set the
option for TTL, you'll get different character glyphs based on if the
character set is set to UTF-8, ISO-8851, or IBM-437 encodings. It's
possible that I have a bad solder somewhere, but everything else comes up
fine.

-Andy Wallis