> I've been thinking about bluetooth and the M100. It seems to me that > the best "achitecture" for mobile net enabled apps would be as > follows- > > 1)  M100 with an RS-232 bluetooth dongle (hardware flow control!), and > REX of course. > 2)  a smartphone, with WiFi support > 3)  optional - a NADSbox with an RS-232 bluetooth dongle > 4)  a better terminal program for M100, as an option ROM, including XMODEM > > It is easy to instruct bluetooth to connect to either NADSbox or > smartphone.. This can be scripted basically.  We know that TPDD > protocol runs well on bluetooth now.  Also, a version of Desklink > could be made for Blackberry. > > Then, all we are doing is writing apps for Blackberry, to adapt text > email, bulletin board, downloads etc. > > I think this would do it all, and avoid any further custom hardware. > The Blackberry and NADSbox can sit out of sight, and all you'd need is > an RS-232 Bluetooth dongle on the M100. >

On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Stephen Adolph <twospruces@...> wrote: > Furthermore, it seems that since TPDD protocol will work well over > wide area, and is by nature unable to overflow the RX buffers on the > M100, then it could be further expanded like was done by TS (the > desklink extensions), to support > > * terminal sessions > * file downloads within terminal > > And, since we are likely to use terminal to run web apps, then we have > a generalized solution for bi-directional data transfer with the M100. > > > So, I guess my proposal is to further expand TPDD protocol to handle > other forms of data transfer, so it is the underlying transport > protocol for data to and from the wide-area network gateway. >

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Stephen Adolph <twospruces@...> wrote: > This problem of not buffering incoming serial data properly at full > speed is a problem indeed.  Working with things that don't obey > software flow control is a pain! > > Perhaps we need to develop a new terminal ROM or something.

> On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 7:05 PM, Stephen Adolph <twospruces@...> wrote: >> This problem of not buffering incoming serial data properly at full >> speed is a problem indeed.  Working with things that don't obey >> software flow control is a pain! >> >> Perhaps we need to develop a new terminal ROM or something. > > > Well I did create HTERM for just this purpose... it implements > hardware flow control. It even discards annoying ANSI color escape > codes and allows you to disable scrolling to speed things up when that > is useful. > > A full OptROM may or may not be necessary. HTERM is pretty small. > > It does need a reliable file transfer implementation... xmodem would > be good, or some integration with TS-DOS. Also it could use a capture > mechanism. > > Another possible solution is to squeeze HTERM into the main ROM, > possible replacing TELCOM. > > -- John. >

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 7:36 PM, Stephen Adolph <twospruces@...> wrote: > I'm annoyed at the moment because the good old M100 cannot keep up > with a burst of 19.2 kbaud characters.  The bluetooth device has a > control interface that can give a report of text detailing all the > settings.   This data streams to the M100 at 19.2 and is more than 100 > bytes.  At some point, the buffers overflow on the M100 and you lose > data on the screen, making it unreadable. > > I suppose hardware flow control would fix that. > > Where do you store HTERM?  I will check your personal folder. >

> On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 7:36 PM, Stephen Adolph <twospruces@...> wrote: >> I'm annoyed at the moment because the good old M100 cannot keep up >> with a burst of 19.2 kbaud characters.  The bluetooth device has a >> control interface that can give a report of text detailing all the >> settings.   This data streams to the M100 at 19.2 and is more than 100 >> bytes.  At some point, the buffers overflow on the M100 and you lose >> data on the screen, making it unreadable. >> >> I suppose hardware flow control would fix that. >> >> Where do you store HTERM?  I will check your personal folder. >> > > http://bitchin100.com/files/m10x/HTERM.CO > http://bitchin100.com/files/m10x/HTERM.lst > > -- John. >

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 8:00 PM, Stephen Adolph <twospruces@...> wrote: > Found it!  old emails. > I could not get it to work though. Notwithstanding 38400 vs 19200.  It > just beeps and exits. > ..Steve >