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Date   : Thu, 04 Apr 1985 01:10:00-EST
From   : ABN.ISCAMS@USC-ISID.ARPA
Subject: Re: Reading Apple Disks

Hello,

I've read the recent messages re how to read Apple disks from a Kaypro
(or other CP/M system).  Most responses involve connecting the two
computers (Apple and CP/M system) with a serial or modem connection,
and maybe or maybe not buying a CP/M card for the Apple.

Just to inform you of a somewhat wilder kludge that (remarkably enough)
worked after a fashion.

I had some Apples running Pascal on a Corvus Omninet.  Didn't have any
Omninet connections for my CP/M system (a Decision I - the big S100 buss
sucker).

Used a serial card (Super Serial, I think) in the Apple slot normally
used when attaching an external terminal (forget the number now, but it's
in Apple and Super Serial Card documentation).  Used the normal Omninet
card in the Apple, plus its 16K Language card.

Fired up the Toad (the Decision I) and hard-wired to the Apple's serial
port as a terminal.  Used a modem program (MODEM730, in this case) in
T mode (terminal) to actually run the Apple, and used file buffering and
saving (also from T mode) when I wanted to save something from the Apple.
(Just told it to type - or the equivalent Pascal term.)

Worked really well, except for some Pascal screen-addressing commands
built into our Omninet shell that I didn't want to mess with.  But for
straight serial data - no problems at all!  Worked with 8-bit also, by
the way.  Donno what I'll do with Apple binary code on the Toad, but
there it is!

So, if you're working back-to-back (might even work over a modem!), that
is ONE way - and you don't need a CP/M card in the Apple either.

Regards,
David Kirschbaum
Toad Hall
(ABN.ISCAMS@USC-ISID)
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