[Coco] Dumb way to write 3.5" floppy in Coco RSBASIC?

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Sun Dec 7 08:22:01 EST 2003


On Saturday 06 December 2003 22:52, KnudsenMJ at aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 12/6/03 9:38:23 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>
>robert.gault at worldnet.att.net writes:
>> NO! RSBasic will complain bitterly unless you type DSKINI2.
>
>Right :-)  Tells you how long ago I used RSBASIC.  Darn, I was good
> at it back in early '80s!
>
>>  The best means for transfer is still null modem if you have an
>> RS-232 pak.
>
>Pretty sure I still do.  Now I just need a terminal program that
> runs under RSDOS (maybe the VidText ROM in the RS232 Pak will do),
> and a PC term program that will run a Baud rate as low as the
> Coco's.  Will good old Hyperterm or whatever that stock DOS thing
> is, go that slow? 120 Baud or whatever?
>
>Ran plenty of "primitive" terminal programs on Coco in my day, on
> blazing fast 1200 Baud Bell modems, but never on a PC.  --Mike K.

Same here Mike.  But then things got faster, and I ran supercomm on 
one end, term-v4.7 on the amiga end, and could do automatic zmodem 
transfers either way at 9600, actually getting about 700 cps.  zmodem 
is slow (on the coco) shall we say?  That was with nitros9, stock 
6809 based coco's can only do about 450 cps before they drop cts and 
stop the amiga for a second to catch up.  Supercomm being the only 
coco term program that I'm aware of that can handle the automatic 
part of zmodem.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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