[Coco] Coco Digest, Vol 138, Issue 16

[Bill Nobel]

Years ago, Curtis Boyle and myself used 4 rs-232 ports and four parallel ports in a MPI to run 4 terminals and 4 printers in a multi user environment with the Coco3 as the Server.

Bill Nobel

On Jun 26, 2014, at 8:05 PM, John Strong <johnstrong at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Way back when, I set a coco3 running 4 terminals for a friends math classroom.
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> John Strong
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>> Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2014 18:59:56 -0400
>> From: Arthur Flexser <flexser at fiu.edu>
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>> Actually, I was wondering why one would want or need 4 RS232 ports, and a
>> multi-line BBS was all I could think of. Though I suppose one port could
>> be for the printer as an alternative to the bit-banger, though the
>> advantage of that seems marginal, apart from saving the cost of a
>> serial-to-parallel adapter.
>> 
>> Art
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