Re: Apple //e as serial terminal

[kragen@dnaco.net (Kragen Sitaker)]

In article <37E6A385.FD7CAC46@intergate.bc.ca>,
Wayne Stewart  <waynes@intergate.bc.ca> wrote:
>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.

Sorry, my previous post was made while I was at work and without having
carefully examined the machine in months.

It does indeed not have anything resembling a printer port.  It has a
nine-pin jobbie (the joystick port?), two cassette ports, an RCA jack
for the monitor, and ribbon cables going to the disk drives.

>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.

Presumably doing this would require modifying the Apple ROM.

>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.

Cool.

Louis Cornelio has kindly offered to sell me a Super Serial Card; I
suspect that should be quite sufficient.  (I am given to understand
that the //e occasionally drops characters even at 19200 bps, due to
missed interrupts; if this is true, faster wires won't buy me
anything.)

Now for the soft stuff: emulators, assemblers, and Kermit.
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