Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pike.cis.ohio-state.edu!mills-c From: mills-c@pike.cis.ohio-state.edu (Christopher Mills) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: My Amiga has a retarded brother... Message-ID: <11235@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 21 Apr 88 16:08:57 GMT References: <263@vedge.UUCP> <340NETOPRHM@NCSUVM> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Followup-To: mills@baloo.eng.ohio-state.edu Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Electrical Engineering Lines: 25 In article <340NETOPRHM@NCSUVM> NETOPRHM@NCSUVM.BITNET (Hal Meeks) writes: >>Stuff about Vic20 sitting in closet, gathering dust. What to do with it? > >Gee, I have exactly the same problem. This is what I had thought about >doing: > >Adding a RS232 adaptor to the back and hanging it off of my serial >port. Would make a dandy post-mortem debugging tool. Maybe open >a cli window on it? Hmmmm............ >--hal Not bad idea. I hacked up my old Atari 800 (anyone out there have one of them before the Amiga too?) as a dedicated printer buffer for my Epson DX-10 daisywheel (it was a gift). It helps out a lot (I think the phrase "DX-10" refers to its speed - 10 cps!). -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _____________________ | Christopher Mills. (_)________________ \ | mills@baloo.eng.ohio-state.edu ________________|\ \ | mills-c@pike.cis.ohio-state.edu (_)______________\_\ \ | Current Thought: Must be nice to have ______________________\ | a laserprinter. (_)____________________| | DISCLAMER: I really wish I could blame | my thoughts on someone else... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-