Re: Connect GS to PC??

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <513dtv$noi@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>,
Alexander Siegfried <ug0a@rzstud1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> wrote:
>Has anybody yet tried to connect a PC to a GS?
>I am looking for a method to connect, say the GS communications
>port to the PC serial or LPT1 port and then exchange data between
>the two computers via terminal programs.

   That's noted in the comp.sys.apple2 FAQ as a recommended method for
talking to PCs; it's called a null modem. You'd have to connect the
GS's serial port to one of the serial ports on the PC (LPT* is
parallel; bidirectional parallel cards on the Apple II were extremely
rare), then a comm program on each side can talk to each other.

   I built my own serial cable to connect from my GS to the PC box I
own; works great at 38400. If you don't feel so adventurous, just buy
a printer cable from a mac to 9 or 25 pin serial-- that should work
just fine.

>Also, does anyone know if there is software on the PC that lets
>you read SCSI hard drives formatted on the GS?

   What pops to mind is someone's comment from a few years back that
the partition tables on PCs was their own oddball format (as usual,
thinking they're the 800 pound gorilla that can do what they want).
If this is indeed the case, you'd need to write a good bit of code on
the PC side to translate the info correctly.

Nathan Mates

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