21 Apr
2010
21 Apr
'10
6:08 p.m.
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 12:03 AM, Adam Sampson <ats at offog.org> wrote:
"Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com>
writes:
An add-on extra serial port was one of the 1st peripherals, I believe,
and a simple terminal app was supplied with the system, by the name of
MAIL232.COM (IIRC - I got my PCW as my 21st birthday present, and I'm
now 42, so it was half my life ago...)
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If you have, for example, an Amstrad Joyce,
there's nowhere to send or
receive the data, as there is no (standard) extra port.
I know third-party serial ports, standard disk drives and so on were
widely available later in the PCW's life, but how was development done
when it first came out? Did Amstrad provide developer-friendly PCWs with
extra hardware to make porting existing CP/M applications easier, or did
development houses have to come up with their own approaches?