7 Jun
2007
7 Jun
'07
12:37 p.m.
On Thu, 7 Jun 2007, Curt @ Atari Museum wrote:
A cool
peripherals was the card interface for a PC, it was an ISA board to an
external expansion box with a card reader/writer on it and it made
moving data to/from a PC as easy as USB thumbdrives are today.
There were also [somewhat bulky] snap-on expansion blocks for serial and
for parallel.
It used a third party imitation of MS-DOS.
But it was pretty compatible, even with many of the undocumented MS-DOS
items - I was able to walk the memory control block chain, etc.
I used to run DeSmet C on a 128K card.
The card was NOT PCMCIA. It was one of many that fell by the wayside when
PCMCIA ("People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms") got
standardized. (Poqet used pre-standard PCMCIA)
It could be unfolded flat, and the hinges were sturdy.
(Poqet hinges were inadequate)
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