Re: Read full 8-bit character from serial port?

["Ron Kneusel" <oneelkruns@hotmail.com>]

Michael-

I'm running under ProDOS 8 on an Apple IIgs.  I'm not really sure how
to proceed beyond that point.  It would be nice to get simple serial
I/O set up, for future uses.

Ron

Michael J. Mahon wrote:
> Ron, since you're in Forth, why not just write words to read a character
> directly from the 6551?  It's only a few instructions, and all your
> problems will be gone.
>
> If you know what you want to do, don't let the firmware touch anything
> after you've used it to initialize the port--if that.
> 
> -michael