Post by ye110wbeard on Apr 21, 2007 7:02:47 GMT -5
Good day all. I was cleaning up my pile that didn't get ruined and found a rarity. (At least for me)
1 VIC1011a cartridge to adapter to a proper (sort of) serial link.
I am NOT going to throw it out but I wouldn't mind it going to a good Commodore home. Being that I no longer have any of my Vics, Pets, 64's 128's laying about I cannot test this thing.
If somebody wants to pay for shipping from Ontario Canada they can have it...
The last thing I did on this was in 1999 for a Y2K project. A hospital had all of their manuals on Pet Floppy in Paperclip format. Had to provide a solution to convert to IBM format (any). Because Pet did GCR and IBM did FM formatting, the two 5 1/4" couldn't read each other.
Here was actually the solution (A little screwy but neat to image)
Commodore 128 connected to IBM via VIC 1011a serial.
Batteries Included IEEE488 interface on Commodore 128 to PET Dual 8250 Drives.
1541 drive loading (and of course running) Paperclip.
Load file in Paperclip, print to "Text Serial" printer (at I think 1200 baud, MAYBE 2400) 8N1. Capture Output with "Hyperterminal" on Windows 95. Save each capture as a text file. There were some characters in the output I had to run a "Search and Destroy" on with Qedit to clean it up.
But the results were an almost 99% perfect text file (Except the odd "Burp" the 1011a coughed up at the higher baud rate).
Playing with an older IBM taught me that the 1011a followed RS232c but on the older stuff connected to newer you DON'T need to swap 2 and 3 pins about (like you did with laplink cables). Just leave them alone because they already are...
Because of that it worked great. The consultant I was doing the contract for at the time, dropped ball or the hospital balked at his conversion price.
Still I thought it was pretty neat.
Also picked up the book "On the EDGE - The spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore"
It made REALLY interesting reading telling on the how and why of the Various Commodore computers and how it all came to be (and not after time)
Cheers all
1 VIC1011a cartridge to adapter to a proper (sort of) serial link.
I am NOT going to throw it out but I wouldn't mind it going to a good Commodore home. Being that I no longer have any of my Vics, Pets, 64's 128's laying about I cannot test this thing.
If somebody wants to pay for shipping from Ontario Canada they can have it...
The last thing I did on this was in 1999 for a Y2K project. A hospital had all of their manuals on Pet Floppy in Paperclip format. Had to provide a solution to convert to IBM format (any). Because Pet did GCR and IBM did FM formatting, the two 5 1/4" couldn't read each other.
Here was actually the solution (A little screwy but neat to image)
Commodore 128 connected to IBM via VIC 1011a serial.
Batteries Included IEEE488 interface on Commodore 128 to PET Dual 8250 Drives.
1541 drive loading (and of course running) Paperclip.
Load file in Paperclip, print to "Text Serial" printer (at I think 1200 baud, MAYBE 2400) 8N1. Capture Output with "Hyperterminal" on Windows 95. Save each capture as a text file. There were some characters in the output I had to run a "Search and Destroy" on with Qedit to clean it up.
But the results were an almost 99% perfect text file (Except the odd "Burp" the 1011a coughed up at the higher baud rate).
Playing with an older IBM taught me that the 1011a followed RS232c but on the older stuff connected to newer you DON'T need to swap 2 and 3 pins about (like you did with laplink cables). Just leave them alone because they already are...
Because of that it worked great. The consultant I was doing the contract for at the time, dropped ball or the hospital balked at his conversion price.
Still I thought it was pretty neat.
Also picked up the book "On the EDGE - The spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore"
It made REALLY interesting reading telling on the how and why of the Various Commodore computers and how it all came to be (and not after time)
Cheers all