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- From: Rick_Michael_Cortese@cup.portal.com
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
- Subject: Re: IBM to 8bit null modem
- Message-ID: <64340@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 07:11:38 PDT
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <QKf-1DB@engin.umich.edu>
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- I've done it a couple of times, through both an 850 & a joystick with the
- MPP R: handler. Even wrote a dumb 1200 baud joystick routine for someone
- who didn't want to buy a modem to get the MPP handler to his Atari. It
- just sat there collecting stuff from the IBM at 1200 baud, then wrote the
- info out to a disk file. I've had minor problems with the software I've
- used. With the Atari, the last Xmodem block is padded to 128 bytes by adding
- extra characters. Something like(?) if you are sending 193 bytes, the 1st
- 128 go fine, but the next 65 bytes are padded with the CHR$(65) to make it
- to 128 bytes. Some IBM software stores the original file with this "garbage"
- appened to it. The reason why SIO2PC has so many advocates is it really is
- that good. I haven't finished my yet (like everything else!), but I just
- spent about the last month reworking a couple of hard drives & an old
- clone I wasn't using. If you plan on expanding the Atari, it's really a
- cheaper way of doing it. Parts for the SIO2PC run about < $10 & I found
- a 17 meg HD/controller for $22.50. You can basically end up with a lot
- of storage cheap.
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