22 Apr
2012
22 Apr
'12
11:36 a.m.
On Sat, 21 Apr 2012, David Griffith wrote:
When I was an undergraduate, the populer home computer here was the BBC
micro,. and the university had plenty of them on public access. You could
download stuff onto floppies and take them to your own machine.
Only problem was that I didn't have a Beeb. I did find that there was a
date transfer medioum I could read, though. Paper tape. I had a rather
nice puch/reader on my P850, and a serial punch/reader (only 30cps
:-() on my micros. So I'd get my files punched on tape and read them into
my machines.
It rather spoilt the fun when Ibought an M100 and got permission to plug
it into a spare RS232 port on the university PADs.
-tony
I did something similar except I used a Sun IPX.
You mean you hauled your IPX back and forth? Interesting idea... did you
have 2 sets of monitors/keyboards for it, one at work and one at home?