Re: Connect GS to PC??

[gtolar@ghgcorp.com (Glynne Tolar)]

In article <513dtv$noi@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>, ug0a@rzstud1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Alexander Siegfried) wrote:
>Hello!
>
>Has anybody yet tried to connect a PC to a GS?

My 486-160 is connected to my 12MHz GS.
(com1 to GS's serial port 1)

>I am looking for a method to connect, say the GS communications
>port to the PC serial or LPT1 port and then exchange data between
>the two computers via terminal programs.

It works.  I'd suggest using a cable that supports hardware handshaking.
So you can get top speed out of it.   I use ProTERM on the GS and
HyperTerminal <bleh> on the PC.  Telemate for Windows has problems with
direct connect setups.  <drat!>

>Also, does anyone know if there is software on the PC that lets
>you read SCSI hard drives formatted on the GS?

HFS formatted?  Yes.  ProDOS formatted, NO.  HFS you could use the Mac
emulator Executor (and maybe other software).  Another option is format it PC.
You could use MTOOLS (name?) on the GS to read/write it.

At one time I heard rumblings of a driver for Linux to read ProDOS disks but
but nothing ever came of it.