Re: Apple IIe to IBM PC interface

[Doug Browning <vgt507@freenet.mb.ca>]

Doesn't Quality Computers already have a package for interfacing Apples 
to PCs. I think it includes a cable and software that you run on both 
machines.

Doug Browning
vgt507@freenet.mb.ca
http://www.winnipeg.freenet.mb.ca/~vgt507

On Sun, 8 Jun 1997, Mike Cole wrote:

> David Empson wrote:
> > 
> > Edhel Iaur, Esq. <LOSETHECAPITALWORDSedhel@bigfoot.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Wed, 04 Jun 1997 00:04:44 -0500, Eric Gregori <emgregor@wwa.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > >I am considering writing some software for the Apple and the PC that
> > > >would allow the PC to become a SLAVE drive to the Apple ( the apples
> > > >more usefull ) through the serial port.
> 
> > Actually, it is only 5760 bytes per second.  You cannot do better than
> > 10 bits per byte using asynchronous mode, and the PC serial ports don't
> > support synchronous.
> 
> Maybe doing like the Commodore people do and use the disk drive port..
>  anybody got the pinout?? there might be a way to hook it up to a 
>  PC parallel port directly or through a simple interface..
> 
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> Mike Cole
> Computer Consulting
> Email - mcole(@)fia.net
> 
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