Re: Apple II Workstation Card as serial port

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

On Sep 27, 8:34 pm, mdj <mdj....@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sep 24, 1:38 pm, schmidtd <schmi...@my-deja.com> wrote:
>
> > Yep, ok, the Pascal 1.1 entry points seem to work reasonably well (I'm
> > still not getting recognizable data, but I must be doing something
> > else wrong).  So that's no longer a mystery.  I do still wonder if
> > there's firmware buried in there that will reroute input/output the
> > way IN#2/PR#2 do for normal serial cards.
>
> If you choose a printer with the network chooser, the SSC firmware
> emulator directs your data stream to that network printer, wrapped in
> a block of postscript code that emulates the ImageWriter control codes
> (no, I'm not kidding).
>
> I've only ever used it in that mode, and it "just works"  - I suspect
> doing high-speed transfers will be as it is with the normal SSC
> firmware; basically impossible.

Yeah, hacking away at it, I'm getting that feeling too.  Oh, well...
it was/is an interesting experiment.  That whole Pascal interface
business with the firmware was a nice idea and all, but the speed
penalty is often too high.