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- Path: sparky!uunet!psgrain!qiclab!leonard
- From: leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson)
- Subject: Re: WANTED: Your old 16550 UART
- Message-ID: <1992Dec25.121237.18150@qiclab.scn.rain.com>
- Keywords: WANTED: Your old 16550 UART
- Reply-To: Leonard.Erickson@f51.n105.z1.fidonet.org
- Organization: SCN Research/Qic Laboratories of Tigard, Oregon.
- References: <1992Dec21.183041.26202@networx.com>
- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 12:12:37 GMT
- Lines: 30
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- mikel@networx.com (Mike Lempriere) writes:
-
- >I'm building a TDD (Telecommunications Device for the Deaf) modem for
- >my IBM PC. I can't use the normal COM ports because TDD runs at 45.5
- >baud, so I have to do it myself.
-
- >From reading the PC newsgroups, a lot of people seem to be pulling out
- >their old 16550 UART chips to put in the buffered 16550F version.
-
- You want an 8250 or a 16450. The 16550 was a production glitch that the
- manufacturer did their level best to recall! That's why everybody
- *really* wants 16550A chips (follow the A with various alphabet soup
- to taste. :-)
-
- BTW, if this is a *real* IBM PC, there are instructions available
- for using the *cassette* port to drive an (included) circuit to do
- TDD.
-
- And you can run the standard COM ports at 45.5 quite easily. You just
- have to load a "custom" value into the rate divisor register of the
- UART. A quick calculation shows that a value of 2532 will get 45.497...
-
- And you are going to *have* to program right down to the hardware
- anyway. The BIOS calls aren't going to help a lot.
-
- --
- Leonard Erickson leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com
- CIS: [70465,203] 70465.203@compuserve.com
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