Re: NadaNet and AppleCrate

[aiiadict@gmail.com (Rich J.)]

mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon) wrote in message news:<20040711142758.04915.00001069@mb-m24.aol.com>...
> The NadaNet


from Bob Bishop's P.A.C.K. vol 2 
chapter 5:fun with the cassette ports 
PG 29:

"

The Cassette Network

The idea of a cassette network first occured to me in 1976 
when I was playing with my apple I.  It would have been 
nice if the cassette-in of one computer could be directly 
plugged into the cassette-ot of another, allowing the two 
machines to communicate with each other.  I envisioned a 
ring of Apple computers, each receiving its cassett-in 
signals from the machine on the left,and sending its
cassete-out signals to the machine on the right.  
Unfortunately the Apple's cassette-out signal is not
strong enough to directly drive the cassette-in port 
of another machine.

Over the subsequent years the idea of such a network 
still continued to intrigue m and from time to time I 
would again actively consider the possibility. Finally, 
in February of 1985, I was at last able to successfully 
demonstrate the cassette network as an actual 
functioning entity.

"

the PACK volume 2 mentions a game called GOBBLERS which would allow
you to play a four player game each player on a seperate computer.

the text mentions pushing the data-transfer rate to the
max using the cassette ports.  I don't have the disk that
came with the text.

later!

Rich
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