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From: geoffw@xenitec.on.ca (Geoffrey Welsh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: PET CBM 8022 ---> IBM PC-DOS Diskette CONVERSION
Message-ID: <1990Feb28.171115.23547@xenitec.on.ca>
Date: 28 Feb 90 17:11:15 GMT
References: <1990Feb26.175510.12858@athena.mit.edu> <25190@ut-emx.UUCP>
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In article <25190@ut-emx.UUCP> sjk@ut-emx.UUCP (bob) writes:
>And no, the 8032 does not have a standard RS-232, though there are
>cables and software that can connect to the parallel port to make
>it mimic an RS-232 for communications.  (This is what I use.)

 ... and that's exactly what the C64 and C128 use, though it's much
more common on those machines and some people (like me) have spent
a lot of time writing optimized RS-232 drivers for them.

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