[COFF] VT100 TX but no RX?
segaloco via COFF
coff at tuhs.org
Tue Mar 17 09:22:46 AEST 2026
Thanks for the help folks, turns out there's some corrosion on the STP (standard terminal port) edge socket inside. The pins are supposed to short across the socket when a card isn't inserted, so corrosion or bent pins can cause trouble elsewhere. After some scraping a loopback test of tying RX to TX finally works, so now I can get back to messing with the signal chain. Loopback actually doesn't work on the other end either so maybe both sides have their own problems...but VT100 is looking a lot better now thanks for the pointers!
- Matt G.
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