Tony Duell wrote:
>
> > No, the classroom network system used a straight-through DIN-5 cable
> > from the teacher's machine and up to 16 (longer) ones for the student
> > systems. The classroom network system went through two versions, the
>
> Sure, the Tandy/Radio Shack one was like that, but I was wondering if
> this adapter was part of some third-party network.
>
> After all, one of the early Tandy modems would connect to a Model 1
> cassette port using a special cable. An RS232 adapter for the cassette
> port wouldn't be impossible.
I recall the design in Kilobaud, but to the best of my knowledge there
was never a Tandy (US) modem that connected to the cassette port. Kits
were available and I think products all from third parties. Never was
tempted due to reliability reports and lack of anything worth calling
from Las Vegas at the time long distance. Now that I think of it, there
may have been a cable kluge with drivers published in 80-Micro for the old
300 bps DC-1 at a time when I wasn't reading _every_ page -- when it was
rivalling the modern Computer Shopper in size (busy doing things like
getting married to my first wife the government knew about [best man at my
wedding with the second wife in the government's eyes is the present husband
of my first wife that the government wasn't involved with] and geographical
relocations and things like that -- anybody interested in hearing about
such things email privately to avoid tripping switches about the
on-topicness to this mailing list, you must be over 18 or a science fiction
reader [not merely watcher - there's a _big_ difference]).
--
Ward Griffiths
Dylan: How many years must some people exist,
before they're allowed to be free?
WDG3rd: If they "must" exist until they're "allowed",
they'll never be free.
Received on Thu Feb 26 1998 - 00:28:53 GMT