7 Sep
2001
7 Sep
'01
7:26 p.m.
I used one of these networks in 1982/83 with, just as you
said, a single master and 16 slave machines. It was built around a
Model III with 48k and dual disk drives as the master while the other
machines were all 16k cassette-based. We mainly used it just to load
programs from disk to the cassette-based machines. I don't recall
having a printer connected to it or using the master machine for
saving stuff from the slave machines. It worked pretty well though.
Anyone know just what additional stuff was needed to do it?
From what I've been told, the system was designed
by Tony Pepin. This is
kind of neat for me since at one time I owned (and may
still, I'm not sure
*grin*) a Model I that had his name, address and phone # engraved on the
case. (I also owned a Model I that at one time was the personal machine
of the editor of 80 US Micro - that was pretty cool too. *laughs*)
g.