OT: <was springfield> <is data transfer via parallel port off old systems>

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Wednesday 02 August 2006 05:08 pm, Chuck Guzis wrote:
> The thing will also work wtih the Microsoft Interlink.

Interesting,  I never did get around to verifying whether those were the same 
wiring or not.

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> Anent that, I still have a copy and manual for "The $25 network" that
> imprelments rather primitive peer-to-peer printer and serial port
> networking over DOS.

I've always wondered how well that worked.  And what sort of protocol it used. 
But I'm more interested in finding such for earlier stuff yet,  like a 
similar product that I've heard of that would work with CP/M boxes,  of which 
I have a number.  Very little hardware was ever standardized with most of 
those,  but just about all of them had at least one serial port,  many had 
two.

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