I now have SCELBI TTY cards in stock and will ship one to you for $30, shipping included. If you are interested send an email to: mike@willegal.net. Be aware that at this point they are not tested, so until I get one tested, I don’t guarantee that they will work without modification.

Regarding TTY card testing, I have been delayed because I didn’t have a current loop interface to test it against. Well that has been rectified, as I have the Apple II Serial Card that I mentioned in another post working (at least in RS232 mode). In order to get that card working in a way that would work for interfacing to the SCELBI TTY card, I had to reconstruct and burn a P9 PROM that matched the first version PROM. Wendell Sander was nice enough to send me a PROM that was a copy of his serial card P9 PROM. However, his P9 PROM was overwritten in a couple of spots with a all ones pattern. I took his PROM and compared the parts that were intact with the listing at the back of the manual and determined that I could resurrect his PROM by filling in the missing code with the code from the listing in the manual. After messing up my first attempt, I burned what I thought was a good P9 PROM. I put it in the Serial card and tested in RS232 mode against a Super Serial card in another Apple II. That simple test was successful and I now have a working Apple II Serial card without the undesirable flow control behaviors of the second version PROM.

I should be able to use this card in current loop mode for testing the SCELBI TTY card. In fact, I have visions of putting it in an APPPLE IIe (for the needed 72 column support) and emulating TTY operation as closely as I can with the Apple II. I should be able to emulate not only print and typing functions, but emulate paper tape as well. Potentially, I could even add a real paper tape reader and possibly punch by constucting an interface on a SUPERPROTO board.

As far as my prototype TTY card itself, it is mostly built up, just missing a couple of resistors which should arrive today or tomorrow. Once it’s together and tested I’ll put up a Bill of Materials, some simple build instructions and photos.