12 Sep
2007
12 Sep
'07
6:31 p.m.
On 9/12/07, M H Stein <dm561 at torfree.net> wrote:
From: "Ethan Dicks" <ethan.dicks at gmail.com>
Until you mentioned it now, I never would have thought of it. 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.
Just a passive cable? Do you have any special notes, or was it just
SAVE "FOO", 1 and LOAD "FOO", 1?
-ethan
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.