Re: SuperPET for Dummies

From: William Levak (wlevak_at_sdf.lonestar.org)
Date: 2009-01-29 06:49:22

On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, B Degnan wrote:

> lebbatdot@cogeco.ca wrote:
>> Well
>> I have copies of the SuperPet Gazette from the early 80's, not sure what
>> the copyright status is though.  This was quite an active group at the
>> time.  Theu migrated to the Amiga and began publishing the Amiga
>> Journetman Apprentice before it faded out.
>> There was also several disks of programs which I have copies around
>> somewhere.  I will have to poke around, I have not fired up the SP for a
>> few years, not sure if it works still.
>> 
>> Brian
>> 
>>
>> 
> Sure!  I was hoping some sort of user groups were out there for the SP.  One 
> of the things I have not explored is modem communications, terminal emulation 
> and all that.  The SuperPET core interface has a "terminal" command
> Bill

The SP has a serial port inside (DB25 connector).  A few years ago I did 
get it to work at 300 baud.  It did not work at higher speeds.  One 
problem was that it required a 2-4 second line delay (time after sending a 
return until it was ready again).

wlevak@sdf.lonestar.org
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