How to test a Serial Interface Card?

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How to test a Serial Interface Card?

Is there a diagnostics tool which can test the Serial Interface Card on an Apple IIe (the one between the Comms Card and the SSC)? Or any other way to confirm if the card and the Roms are properly functioning?

Any suggestions would be appreciated Smile

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Re: How to test a Serial Interface Card?

Is there a diagnostics tool which can test the Serial Interface Card on an Apple IIe (the one between the Comms Card and the SSC)? Or any other way to confirm if the card and the Roms are properly functioning?

Any suggestions would be appreciated Smile

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I start with a simply RS-232 LoopBack Plug and a Terminal Program, ( I like ASCII Express ).

Then test with ADTPro, and Transfer a Disk to the Apple...

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Re: How to test a Serial Interface Card?

Yeah, I was hoping I could get away without it. I do have one from an old VT105 repair, somewhere ... Smile

The Serial Interface Card does not work with ADTpro, there is an older version called ADTcc which is supposed to work with the first Apple Comms Card and the AE Serial Interface, but I had no luck with the SIC.

Mark, did you get my PM about the SSC?

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Re: How to test a Serial Interface Card?

Yeah, I was hoping I could get away without it. I do have one from an old VT105 repair, somewhere ... :)

Everyone that does RS-232 should have a tester and a LoopBack Plug...

The Serial Interface Card does not work with ADTpro, there is an older version called ADTcc which is supposed to work with the first Apple Comms Card and the AE Serial Interface, but I had no luck with the SIC.

I wasn't aware of that piece of ADT history.. I have had a Apple SSC since 1987, when I bought one from a friend, brand new.. I still have it too, bundled up with my original Apple Mouse Card, and RAMWORKS III card.

Mark, did you get my PM about the SSC?

Yes, and I need to look into shipping costs to Germany... And Australia and Singapore..

( Also need to locate the stash of my SSC.. I am still moving from one house to another, and Everything is Everywhere... )

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Re: How to test a Serial Interface Card?

[quote=MarkO]

... Everything is Everywhere...

WOW! The implications for the physical universe are staggering! If only David Bohm were still alive!

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Re: How to test a Serial Interface Card?

In "Buckaroo Banzai" it was said... "No matter where you go, there you are."

And the answer to Life's questions comes from "Circle of Iron":

"Because it is the way of THINGS!"

LOL

Steven Smile

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[quote=BillO]

... Everything is Everywhere...

WOW! The implications for the physical universe are staggering! If only David Bohm were still alive!

:-)

That is the Short Version of, "A Place for Everything, and Everything All Over the Place"...

I tried, I mean Really Tried to keep all related things together, but......

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Re: How to test a Serial Interface Card?

In "Buckaroo Banzai" it was said... "No matter where you go, there you are."

And the answer to Life's questions comes from "Circle of Iron":

"Because it is the way of THINGS!"

LOL

Steven :)

Buckaroo Banzi: Across the Eighth Dimension!!!!

I need to see/read "Circle of Iron".. It sounds, Enlightening....

MarkO

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