Dave,

No offence but... ATP port?  Last time I checked we are in the 21st century.  :-)

Flow control?  Hardware handshaking? On the MT-85 of course.

-Craig




--- On Sun, 7/12/09, Dave Vogt <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> From: Dave Vogt <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Magtek and Lantronix with HP3000
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Sunday, July 12, 2009, 8:38 PM
> Sometimes, I just get stuck. 
> The boss gives me big things to take care of, 
> and I love it.
> 
> I love Beechglen, and everybody on this site, but boy, this
> problem has me not 
> sleeping at night, and the office hates it when I don't get
> any sleep.  I 
> whimper at my computer terminal, and then get on line and
> ignore my HP3000 
> baby.
> 
> I know somebody out here is going to help me on this one.
> 
> Maybe somebody at Beachglen is going to call me up on the
> phone in the 
> morning and go "dave, here are the settings you big
> dummy".  
> 
> I love those guys!!!
> 
> Anyways, here goes...
> 
> We use ATM's that are hooked into our network that we use
> to pay our 
> customers with (not important, but just so you know what is
> going on here).
> 
> We use Magtek MT-80 and MT-95's to encode the cards. 
> These are RS-232 
> devices.  I use Lantronix UDs-10 and the new UDS-1100
> serial over IP 
> devices.  VERY COOL THINGS!!!
> 
> Doug (at Beachglen) and I figured out how to make a console
> work with these 
> neat little divices.
> 
> My first major attack at this job is to alway make sure I
> can get a connection 
> to the HP3000 system on a ATP port.  4800 baud, no
> parity, 7 bits, 1 dada 
> dada. and I get it over the Lantronix perfect.  I get
> a nice clean connection.  
> BTW, I have the Magtek MT-80's and MT-95's  working
> fine.
> 
> My vendor (Tranzact) out of Florida talked me into using
> the less expensive 
> encoders, the MT-85 which I did not blink a eye too. 
> These are cute little 
> things.  I said, NO PROBLEMBO!!!
> 
> Well, PROBLEMBO, big time!!!!!
> 
> I have a perfect connection through reflections on the ATP
> port, but this darn 
> thing or the HP3000 are like a bad marriage.  They
> just refuse to talk to one 
> another.  
> 
> I hook the encoder to the back to the PC on the serial port
> and I can read my 
> credit card.  But darn it, the marrage between the
> HP3000 and this machine 
> and the Lantronix, WOW...I need a preist.
> 
> I'm going to try to get Lantronix and Magtek on the phone
> together in the 
> morning, but if anybody out there has any idea's, give me a
> whistle.
> 
> The set up is, MT-85 to Lantronx, to network, to Lantronx,
> to HP3000.  I have 
> MT-80 and MT-95 set up the same way and they all work.
> 
> First correct response gets a beer from Milwaukee,
> Wisconsin!!!!!
> 
> Dave Vogt
> Miller Compressing Company
> Manager, Info Services
> 414-290-6527
> (I would put my cell phone here, but some crazy nut will be
> calling me all day)
> :)
> 
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