Sweet. I dug into the junk pile and found some parts from that era (1978) of a system I made to interface with a old Teletype corp model 15. 8080 and Z-80 processors with a version of PILOT I wrote as the programming language. It was a training device prototype.Yay I got it working
Looks like I'm eating my words, it was a software issue. I just had to write a few instructions to make sure the buffer had room to store the next character. Hopefully I won't have to bother you with any more posts XD
Thank you so much for all of your help and suggestions. I've attached a picture for anyone interested.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nsaspook/sets/72157624642509553/show/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PILOT
It would have been nice to have a fancy LCD display instead of a 50lb monster.
http://www.baudot.net/teletype/M15.htm