Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!abcfd20.larc.nasa.gov!tab29.larc.nasa.gov!scott From: scott@tab29.larc.nasa.gov (Scott Yelich) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech Subject: Re: using the Xformer cable. (Was: Translator?) Message-ID: Date: 29 Aug 90 14:55:30 GMT References: <908@beguine.UUCP> <56922@microsoft.UUCP> Sender: news@abcfd20.larc.nasa.gov (USENET File Owner) Organization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va. 23665 Lines: 31 In-Reply-To: kentd@FtCollins.NCR.com's message of 28 Aug 90 07:47:00 GMT >> The 410 is a WRITE ONLY device... >You are wrong. It can be read and written to. It'd be worthless >otherwise! I was also told in private email that the 1010 should be a R/W device... Nope, even the 1010s ADVANCED circuits only allows a WRITE ONLY device... The 1010 IS good for expanding your SIO cabled device chain. I took an extra SIO cable... like from a disk drive... and I cut it in half and I soldered the wires onto the two female jacks on the 1010... one connector per femal jack--> in the end, I had a 1010 with 2 female ports and 2 male ports (And no, I am NOT going to tell you why I found this so incredibly useful.) Note 1: The 410/1010 are WRITE ONLY devices as APL is a WRITE ONLY language. Note 2: GET IT? A JOKE? What? Wrong news group? :-) I could write with my 410/1010 fine... but when I tried to READ one of those tapes.... I got into the habit of storing my files on paper and retyping them wheever I wanted one. I still have 4 410s... and 1 1010. -- Signature follows. [Skip now] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scott D. Yelich scott@[xanth.]cs.odu.edu [128.82.8.1] After he pushed me off the cliff, he asked me, as I fell, ``Why'd you jump?'' Administrator of: Game-Design requests to ODU/UNIX/BSD/X/C/ROOT/XANTH/CS/VSVN/ -----------------------------------------------------------------------------