Re: Apple //e as serial terminal

[Wayne Stewart <waynes@intergate.bc.ca>]

The IIe doesn't have a printer port. All the printing is done via an interface

card, usually usually but not always residing in slot 1. Maybe you're
looking at the joystick port.
A while ago someone modified a parrellel printer card to access and run
programs off a PC hard drive. Unfortunately he wasn't able to boot from
the PC hard drive and had to startup from a boot disk. He mentioned that
he'd only found a couple of parrellel printer cards that could be modified
to be bi-directional. One was a Macrotech card and the other I believe was
the ProGrappler.

Kragen Sitaker wrote:

>
> I have managed to obtain an unenhanced Apple //e without a Super Serial
> Card.  Where would I get such a thing?  Is there any alternative (e.g.
> is the printer port bidirectional?)
>
> I'd like to do terminaling and more advanced stuff.  (Wouldn't it be
> neat to have a GUI environment on the //e, with the GUI programs
> running on another machine across a serial line?)