[NTLK] My new serial cable

[Stefan Thorsteinson]

Hi Jeremy,

FWIW: I use NCU on an LG notebook (Intel 2 CPU T5600, 1.83Ghz) running XP
Pro with Slowdown. I'm not sure we are using the same version of slowdown.
Mine is a 2" square window with two sliders-Seed & Reaction. I only use the
speed slider and find that I require about 5 instances of Slowdown at max
reduction in order to get a stable connection. I use the Keyspan USA-19HS
serial adapter. I've found that if there is any misalignment of the planets
or the speed of dust has changed, I may have to run a sixth instance of
slowdown with the slider at 50%. It took some experimenting to come up with
this combination. My test was doing a backup. Most of the time I didn't get
an error until it came to backing up packages. Everything else backed up
fine.

I'm surprised you are getting away with only one instance of Slowdown. Of
course, depending on your processor and  flavor of Slowdown YMMV. Have you
tried any more instances or increasing the percentage of Slowdown to see if
that helps? I can't speak for individual files as I'm usually just backing
up everything. HTH.    

Cheers,
Stefan Thorsteinson

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:newtontalk-bounces at newtontalk.net] On Behalf Of Jeremy O'Brien
Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 12:22 AM
To: newtontalk at newtontalk.net
Subject: Re: [NTLK] My new serial cable

On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 09:36:48AM +0200, Pnemonic wrote:
> Newton doesn't understand USB. It has to convert USB to Serial. And 1GHz+ 
> processors have timing problems.
> 

Alright, so I decided to try and get NCU working again while I wait for
my $4.00 prolific usb->serial converter to arrive. I am running a
slowdown program that allows you to specify a percentage to slow down a
particular program. Using 1-5% allows me to transfer notes just fine,
but I still get a communications error (-1) whenever I try to export
works files. It gets to the point where it asks me what works files to
export, and while I'm choosing, the newton says "waiting for a
response...". I then choose the file I want, hit export, and that's when
the communication error happens. Has anyone seen this before?

Thanks,
Jeremy

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