Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!cbmvax!rutgers!mtune!codas!killer!wood
From: wood@killer.UUCP (Russell Wood)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga 500 power poll.
Message-ID: <2676@killer.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jan 88 05:12:35 GMT
References: <984@russell.STANFORD.EDU> <1312@sugar.UUCP> <2640@killer.UUCP> <8801040827.AA07754@ucscb.UCSC.EDU>
Organization: The Unix(R) Connection, Dallas, Texas
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Keywords: thanks RS232 multitasking   IFF
Summary: thanks for all the response

In article <8801040827.AA07754@ucscb.UCSC.EDU>, lupin3@UCSCB.UCSC.EDU (-=/ Larry Hastings /=-) writes:
> +-In article <2640@killer.UUCP>, wood@killer.UUCP (Russell Wood) wrote:-
> +----------
> |
> | 
> | I have a friend who just got a Commodore 64 for Xmas. He is asking me how
> | he can hook up his modem (Hayes) so he can ask some of these questions
> | himself.
> | 
> | I am in hopes someone on this board might know how to interface the RS232
> | type equip to the 64. I couldn't make much of Commodores documentation as
> | they don't (at least in his manuals) talk about serial I/O like I am used to
> | i.e. DB25 connectors and TD, RD, CD, DSR, DTR, etc.
> | 
> | Any help on just pointing me in the right direction would be appreciated.
> |
> +----------
> 
>

Hey, I want to thank all of you for your responses to my question on the
interface problem I was having with the C64. I'm sure with the info you
gave we will be able to get this kid off the ground. 

I'm still crawling with an A1000 I recently bought so all your other input
in this group is helping me to get better aquainted with this monster. Right
now I can't make up my mind if this is closer to a UNIX OS or PC-DOS or both.

One comment on those that have been questioning the value of multitasking....
If you ever find you do one task consistantly (i.e. run specific reports
against a database) periodically during the month then set them up to run
against a cron and forget about them. Let the machine remember to run them.
Now if you decided to use your machine on some other project and the time 
comes up for the reports to run (now unattended) then in a sense two jobs
are being run during the same period and you are not waiting 'your turn'.

Besides, I thought most people that end up getting into these machines
were the "I WANT IT NOW" generation for the most part. I know I am.

Oh well,.....so much for my 2 cents worth. Thanks again. - Russ

One more thing .. can you tell me where to find some IFF format images?
I would like to try out some of these video/grafic/animation features.


killer!psycho!wood