8-bitters and multi-whatever

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Wednesday 12 September 2007 14:31, Ethan Dicks wrote:
> 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.

I never heard of that either,  until I read it in that post...

> 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.

Indeed.  There were a LOT of c= folks around these parts back when,  a lot of 
BBSs run on those machines,  and a lot of activity focused there in the user 
groups,  and I also ended up with a pile of the magazines that had all sorts 
of little tips and tricks and never saw it in any of those either.

> Just a passive cable?  Do you have any special notes, or was it just
> SAVE "FOO", 1  and LOAD "FOO", 1?

I was wondering if you'd want the ",1" in there or not myself.

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