Setting it up is really easy.

[Chris Doble] has high ambitions: he’s making his own scanning-electron microscope, and as the first step he’s built a high-vacuum system. This required its own controller to manage the various ...

On the one hand, the original Apple II has been copied over and over again since at least the early 80s, so maybe this hack ...

Many thanks for the feedback/input. I tried another actual FTDI USB->serial cable and was successful so it looks like it was my Chinese "ftdi" and USB-> serial components that are causing the issue ...