Hello Liam, You could try prlink, a program written by me and Olaf Seibert. It will do the transfer, but you will need to solder a cable that connect's the PET's user port to the PC's printer port and to type in a BASIC program to the PET so that the transfer program can be downloaded from the PC. If you had a PET disk drive that is compatible with the 1541 format, you could use e.g. Star Commander to read the disk in a 1541 connected to the PC's printer port. Related information: http://www.hut.fi/Misc/cbm/xfer/ http://www.hut.fi/Misc/cbm/xfer/prlink.html I'm sending a copy of this message to the cbm-hackers mailing list. Subscribers of the list could help you further. Regards, Marko Mäkelä On Wed, 27 May 1998, Liam Waldron wrote: > Hi, > I have a PET 2001 series computer running BASIC 4.0 (2495 bytes free at > power-on) and CBM model 8050 and 8250 dual floppy drive units. The PET is > controlling a fourier-transform spectrometer experiment here in the Dept. > Physics, University of Adelaide. In the past, an IEEE/RS232 converter box > has been used to transfer data from PET floppy to an IBM PC-clone. However, > this converter box recently died and cannot be repaired. My question to you > is HOW CAN I TRANSFER DATA FROM PET 8050 or 8250 FLOPPY DRIVES TO AN > IBM PC-CLONE? I have a GPIB (National instruments) IEEE488 interface card > in the PC, my initial thoughts being to access the PET and 8050 or 8250 > floppy drives via the IEEE interface. If this is possible, do you have > available any suitable software on both the IBM-PC and PET sides to set > up the IEEE bus in a suitable way? I understand that the GPIB card must be > configured as NOT-Controller. Alternatively, is there any software that can > specifically force the PET and IBM-PC to read a common-formatted floppy disk? > If so, can you please write me a description of the specific steps that > I must follow? > > I really hope that someone is able to offer me some quick advice. > > Cheers, > Liam Waldron > Dept Physics and Math Physics > University of Adelaide > South Australia > > liam@phadfa.ph.adfa.oz.au OR lwaldron@physics.adelaide.edu.au > fax: +61 8-8303-4380 >
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