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Apple II Workstation Card as serial port
- Subject: Apple II Workstation Card as serial port
- From: schmidtd <schmidtd@my-deja.com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 17:20:43 -0700 (PDT)
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I picked up one of these the other day. I had my fun remote booting
the IIe, but now it's time to get down to business.
The scant literature about the card indicates that it can be used for
serial port(s) if you don't feel like networking. I found some
software on the disk that will let you set up one of the ports as
serial, supposedly corresponding to Pascal 1.1 entry points. That
didn't happen to work with my code, nor did it respond to the usual
Ctrl-A/Ctrl-I commands, but that's neither here nor there. My real
question is... is there something that you can do with the card, with
default firmware, to do the equivalent of IN#2 on the SSC or SCC and
have it listen to data coming over the wire? Without having to attach
a 3.5" disk to an Apple IIe?