[Simh] Simulate Punch Tape Reader/Punch via RS232?

[Vince Mulhollon]

On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 04:15:10PM +0000, Mark Benson wrote:
> Is it possible to feed SimH VAX or PDP sims a punch tape data feed via RS232 or push it out to RS232? I don't have a real reader/punch but I'm curious all the same. I have a madcap plan in my head :)

On windows, no idea.

On linux:

as root (or sudo) stty -a -F /dev/ttyS0 will tell you how the serial
port is configured.  "man stty" will help reconfiguring.  Probably
you won't want 2400 baud and probably the flow control will not be
what you want.

Its possible you're using a USB serial port, which will probably
have a device name something like /dev/ttyUSB0

google for "simh stty" for quite a lot of discussion.

Then its as simple as attaching /dev/ttyS0 to PTR and PTP, just like 
you'd attach a file...

You can also connect line printers to LPT this way.

Best of Luck!