Re: Peeks and Pokes

[Robert Boucher <boucher1@pdq.net>]

Supertimer wrote:
> 
> Ruth Doubleday <ruthd@bellatlantic.net> wrote:
> 
> >I am evaluating the IIc as a controller for a home automation project.
> >In order to work, the IIc will need to communicate with an external
> >serial device using timed reads (or equivalent).
> >
> >I have found the peek address for examining the keyboard input buffer
> >and the poke address to indicate the byte was read from the keyboard
> >buffer.
> >
> >I need to find the corresponding peek/poke for reading from the serial
> >port. A complete list of peek addresses and poke values would be ideal.
> >
> >Also, does the IIc support a date/time clock?
> >
> >Please advise.
> 
> Ruth, I assume you are trying to use an X-10 home automation
> controller with a IIc?  This has already been done.  The simplest
> solution would be to find someone with an 8-bit IIe/IIc version of
> the X-10 software (the Apple II was a popular X-10 component
> in the 1980s), the right serial cable, string them together and run
> the system...
> 
> You'll have to find a copy used.  I suggest asking on the usenet
> newsgroup comp.sys.apple2.marketplace.
> 
> The controller is still sold at places like Radio Shack.  The same
> one that works on Macintosh and Wintel will work with the A2.
> Only the software and the serial cable is different...


I have this software.