root@zswamp.fidonet.org (Geoffrey Welsh) (12/15/90)
Andrew Johnston (ajohnston@trillium.uwaterloo.ca ) wrote: > I have a number of questions: > 1) What is the CBM 8032's relation to the PET, if any? The CBM line was architecturally identical to the PET line, but provided an 80-column screen in stead of 40 columns. > 2) Can PET peripherals be used with it (like tape players, disk >drives)? Absolutely. > 3) Would there be any place (i.e. FTP site) where documentation >would be available for such a machine? > - or - > Would there be some kind soul willing to part with some manuals?? I'm not sure where you can pick up manuals, but there are plenty of books on the PET/CBM that you might find gathering dust in computer and surplus stores... and there's plenty of us around willing to provide help from memory, conjecture, opinion... or even copy it out of our books! > I would be interested mostly in information about the hardware >itself, so >that I could use the connectors on the back/side. And, of course, >information >on how to program the hardware would also be very useful. Well, there's a user port, similar to the C64's, that could provide a parallel port (not supported in the OS, though) or miscellaneous TTL I/O. There's the IEEE-488 port, for printers, disk, etc. And there's the cassette port. On the side, the connector is basically a bus expansion connector. -- UUCP: watmath!xenitec!zswamp!root | 602-66 Mooregate Crescent Internet: root@zswamp.fidonet.org | Kitchener, Ontario FidoNet: SYSOP, 1:221/171 | N2M 5E6 CANADA Data: (519) 742-8939 | (519) 741-9553 MC Hammer, n. Device used to ensure firm seating of MicroChannel boards Try our new Molson 'C' compiler... it specializes in 'case' statements!