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- From: jbmorris@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Jeff Morris)
- Subject: 800XL expansion port
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- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 05:58:49 GMT
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- What is that parallel port on the back of 800XL's for? I was told when I
- bought mine (1984) that it was "for future use".
- How would one send information to that port?
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- Let me tell you what I want to do:
- I want to transfer text files created in AtariWriter over to IBM. I know you
- have the files at the archive for reading Atari disks on IBM's, but can you do
- it another way? For one, I don't have beyond DOS 3.0 on Atari, but I've got
- MS-DOS 5.0 for IBM.
- Could I send ascii characters out of that port or the printer/all-purpose
- port and into some IBM port? I just want to put these files onto my hard drive
- as text files.
- Or is the easiest way to do something like this to use those files?
- But you have to hook up your Atari disk drive to your IBM or something?
- I have a 1050 Atari disk drive.
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