8-bitters and multi-whatever

[Ethan Dicks]

On 9/12/07, M H Stein <dm561 at torfree.net> wrote:
>
> From: "Ethan Dicks" <ethan.dicks at gmail.com>
> >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.

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