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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