27 Feb
1998
27 Feb
'98
7:13 a.m.
From: "Lawrence Walker" <lwalker(a)mail.interlog.com>
Subject: Re: TRS-80 Questions
On 24 Feb 98 at 21:27, Tony Duell wrote:
Now that seems like it has possibilities . And it takes up so
little room !
It is more than likely a modem or parts to one. On the Commodore 64
the Total Telecommunications Modems are very well known (because they
were VERY cheap and good quality Commodore 1650 clone direct-connect
auto-answer 300 baud modem) I ran my BBS on one for years..
My assumtion is that the Telelearning project (which, from my book,
looks like a Compuserve, Q-Link or similar on-line network geared for
education) failed miserably and all the modem/software packs were sold
at pennies to the dollar.
I thought there were just Total Telecomm modems out there.... I
wonder what other computers that made modems for.
Larry Anderson
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2. Included with a TRS CoCo 1 I picked up last summer
was
an adapter plugged into the cass.port. a label "TotalCommunications"
on one side and "Telelearning" on the other. Into this was plugged
another M/M adapter labelled " RS232 Gender Changer" Was this for
hooking up a fdd and/or modem ?
My guess, and it's only a guess is that this is some kind of kludge to
allow you to CLOAD (and maybe CSAVE) programs to/from an RS232 device. It
may have been part of one of those classroom 'networks' where the teacher
loaded a program onto his machine, all the pupils typed CLOAD, the
teacher typed CSAVE and the program was downloaded onto all the pupils'
machines.