12 Sep
2007
12 Sep
'07
7:03 p.m.
On Wednesday 12 September 2007 14:31, Ethan Dicks wrote:
On 9/12/07, M H Stein <dm561 at torfree.net>
wrote:
I never heard of that either, until I read it in that post...
From: "Ethan Dicks" <ethan.dicks at
gmail.com>
Until you mentioned it now, I never would have thought of it. Since I couldn't afford an IEEE-488 disk
drive, rather than just move
files back and forth on tape, basing it upon the cable and software
from a contemporary "Byte" magazine, I fabricated my own
nybble-with-handshake cable between the user ports of the PET and the
C-64, and moved stuff from one to the other over that.
You mean you didn't just make a simple cassette "null modem" cable?
I still have the 30 footer that connected my upstairs "play" PET to the
downstairs "work" one. Lots of people (especially schools)
"networked"
them that way in those distant days. Back in the day, I never saw any articles in the
journals about that, and
nobody at any of the user-group meetings ever mentioned it or showed
it off, but thinking about it now... I can see how it could work.
Indeed. There were a LOT of c= folks around these parts back when, a lot of
BBSs run on those machines, and a lot of activity focused there in the user
groups, and I also ended up with a pile of the magazines that had all sorts
of little tips and tricks and never saw it in any of those either.
Just a passive cable? Do you have any special notes,
or was it just
SAVE "FOO", 1 and LOAD "FOO", 1?
I was wondering if you'd want the ",1" in there or not myself.
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