Denial

Don't delete me this is the most Vic-licious place on Earth!

To bad the fix ended up in massaging for a solution, that doesn't help at all.

It helped me, are you stuck with a non-functioning VIC?

I must admit that I am pretty new to the Vic-20 crowd. As a kid, around 1982ish it was one of the computers I often would dream of having. We had a TI 994a in our house and although I had a lot of fun with it. It was a pretty expensive machine to expand upon, the BASIC programming was not the same (...

I AM THE VIC-20 MASSEUSE!

Ok maybe now

Ok I am at the point now where I have 300 bps serial data coming out of the vic and delivering it to my PC at 9600 bps, via an Arduino. I need to route in my garage for some parts to get a SpeakJet circuit together to slip in place of the PC.

I am not actually sure what I did. Really I just opened it up, replaced a burned out fuse, and removed the heat sink on the the rectifier and smeared more heat grease on it. I then hit is all with compressed air and took a clorox wipe and wiped it all down. I suppose something could have been loose ...

Well my initial thought to this was to use an Arduino as a baud rate upconverter to a speakjet.

So you could have the VIC sending commands to the Speakjet via 300bps and the arduino would upconvert that to the default 9600 bps of the speakjet.

I am still pretty new to the VIC programming part. Does anyone know the maximum baud rate that the user port can delivery using BASIC?

I have a SpeakJet laying around and it has a default Baud Rate of 9600 but can be set as low as 2400.

Any thoughts?

I did read Ray's page and it did help a lot in the initial process and seeing how the Vic is put together.

Thanks again

Well I poked and prodded a bit and I manged to get it to boot up, so life is good!

Thanks All for the help.[/img]

Hello All, In case you cannot tell from the subject, I am a n00b when it comes to Vic-20s. I will admit, since the early 80's as a kid I have dreamed of having one (not sure why since I had a TI994a), but here I am in my early 40's and I snagged a broken one off of eBay with the intent on resurrecti...