[GreenKeys] USB-teletype adapters

[Duncan Brown]

Thanks to Eric and everyone who offered terminal programs!

Presently, I'm using old W7 laptops with serial ports at home and at the 
AWA Museum, so I don't really need the USB interface (yet).  My main 
interest with these boards was the on-board "automessage/autoprint" 
feature which should work well for demos at the Museum.

I finally decided to go with ExtraPuTTY (the original PuTTY would 
probably be OK, too) as a terminal program due to its text editing 
ability. I  found that with the TeraTerm and Terminal.exe programs, if 
you make a mistake while entering text or a command, you can correct the 
text on the screen, but the correction is not transmitted. (It is like 
there are separate screen & transmit buffers, and you can only correct 
the screen buffer.) When you are entering short commands, this is not a 
big problem. But (unless you are a perfect typist) entering hundreds of 
characters can be very frustrating.  ExtraPuTTY handles corrections to 
the display properly, so text entry is much easier.

ExtraPuTTY also saves your configuration, so that you don't have to set 
it up each time you open the program. (If the other programs offered 
this, I couldn't find it.)

Have fun,

Duncan
K2OEQ



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