dbrothers@DDN1.ARPA (01/28/85)
Comment: I got the following question from a friend of mine. I can't see why you can't use the seriel card in slot one. That should not stop CP/M from booting up. Can anyone out there shed any light on this problem? Reply to either him or me. Thanks in advance.. Doug Forwarded message(s): ----------------------------------------------------- Date: 28 Jan 85 11:45 GMT From: brad @ dca-eur To: dbrothers @ DDN1.ARPA CC: brad @ dca-eur Text: Re: CPM information & SIMTEL Date: 28 Jan 1985 11:22:21 Z Text: Doug, I still have not gotten my serial card to work. I have only an Apple Serial Card not the Super Serial card (I borrowed a Super card from a neighbor only to see that it didn't work in slot 1 eithter). I wrote to ALS and got a reply they say they have a utility called FLIP that does the same thing as DEVICE except with the Apple Slots 1, 2, and 3. It is included in CP/M releases 3.01B2 and later. I got release 3.01B1 and didn't get it. Just sent them a letter today asking them to send it and asked them to charge their CP/M programmers kit on my MasterCard and send that too. I have tried alot of different things with the printer card in slot 2 trying to direct the output to AUX: using DEVICE . I have been unsuccessful in getting DEVICE to do anything. All devices are assigned as Null. A control-P with the printer card in slot 2 only gives me double characters on the screen. As I mentioned earlier the serial card doesn't allow CP/M to boot when the serial card is in slot 1. ALS' documentation says slot 1 is for the printer card and does not specifically state parallel only! Anyhow, I don't care if I have to put my printer serial card in slot 2 I'd just like to be able to get the output of WordStar to my printer! my slot assignment is: Slot #0 16K Card Slot #1 vacant Slot #2 Serial Card Slot #3 Micromax-80 80 Col card Slot #4 CP/M Card Slot #5 Vacant Slot #6 Disk Controller Slot #7 ThunderClock If you could tell me how to direct the output to AUX: or slot 2 I'd appreciate it! Thanks, Jim -------------END OF FORWARDED MESSAGE(S)-------------