Re: Can you identify this serial card?

[schmidtd <schmidtd@my-deja.com>]

On Sep 4, 8:15 pm, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
> Jim wrote:
> > schmidtd <schmi...@my-deja.com> wrote:
>
> >>>but does it have some sort of similar functionality? Or is it very, very
> >>>dumb?
>
> >>My vote is for very, very dumb.  The Kermit code above says it doesn't
> >>have any soft-settable switches.  Assuming you can figure out what
> >>physical switches correspond to what baud rate, IN#2 and sending
> >>appropriately slow and paced data its way ought to work.
>
> > Blast. I need it for the bootstrapping aspect of ADTPro, which seems to
> > rely on the card having at least some intelligence.
>
> > [expletive deleted]
>
> > Oh well. I'll have to trawl the UK eBay Apple bits until one comes up.
>
> Or you could always use the cassette port...  ;-)
Oh yeah... I forgot about that.  The trauma of cycle counting was
powerful enough to erase some of my memory of that time. :-)

Jim, the whole bootstrapping and transfer system can happen over the
cassette port too... see:
http://adtpro.sourceforge.net/bootstrapaudio.html

But don't let that discourage you from getting a proper serial card.