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Re: iic boot from serial port?

Subject: Re: iic boot from serial port?
From: CUTjefbla@bconnex.net (Jeff Blakeney)
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 04:21:20 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
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On 14 Feb 2001 08:28:31 +0100, pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter) wrote:

>Why bother with the serial port?  Why not instead use the parallell
>port also on the Apple II side?  By using the various printer status
>lines as input, one can transfer a whole nibble at a time, and not
>just one bit at a time as on the serial port.

The problem here is that the only bi-directional parallel card for the
Apple II that I'm aware of is the Profile controller card and it is
pretty rare.

Parallel would be the best way to go but someone would have to build a
new parallel card first.

 Jeff Blakeney - Dean of the Apple II Unversity on A2Central.com

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