Apple I BASIC dump

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Diane Bruce wrote:
>>>> Nah, a Rube Goldberg inspired solution would have included paper cups,
>>>> string, an acoustic coupler or two, several amps, one of those dancing
>>>> ipod dog things, a fan, a spoon, a ball, several springs, a toy monkey
>>>> (or two), and to keep it on topic (barely) a paper tape puncher.
>>> . . . and the printer output feeding straight into the Automatic Document
>>> Feeder of the OCR scanner?
>> I've done that to do a file transfer before.
> 
> Both ways. Barefoot. In the snow. Uphill both ways. etc. etc.

Except I wasn't kidding.  I had an IBM mainframe with only SNA 
capabilities, and a Honeywell-Bull machine with no network interfaces at 
all.  I used the lineprinter on the Bull to print, drum-scanned it into 
an IBM PS/2, then used a Microchannel 3270 emulation card as the main 
console of the IBM mainframe to transfer the file to the mainframe. 
Took a while, but worked just fine.

Made a good pile of money on that one.

Peace...  Sridhar