that is the entire byte, it looks the same on the LA and it decodes it as value 200
(and yea, if I want to shoot the scope for a article I have to wait till night and shut off most of the lights, for example)
anyway I think we have shown this isnt really an arduino thing, and I have started a line of inquiry on the apple II group, maybe its doing something funny thats being nulled out when plugged into a full rs232 port vs just having RX and TX