bagpiper@pnet02.gryphon.com (Michael Hunter) (01/02/90)
I spend a lot of my time programming in the MS-DOS world, but lately most of
my fun time has been spend with a recently acquired A1000. I don't have a lot
of money to acquire more memory or secondary storage at the moment so I have
been looking for alternatives. One resource I do have is a seagate 20 Meg HD
and a controller (along with an IBM PC (4.77 MHz 8088 :)). One of my friends
mentioned a "sidecar" type thing that sat on the exansion bus of an A1000 to
allow you to plug in cards that were ment to plug into an IBM PC or
compatible. Can anyone tell me more? (cost, advantages, disadvantages) The
other "idea" that has crossed my mind lately is to do something like the
recent LAN that was implemented using the parallel port, but instead talk to
my PC over the parallel (or serial...why?) port. Coding the PC end would be
easy for me. Unfortunately I don't feel comfortable enough mucking around
with devices on the Amiga to write the Amiga end. Has anyone attemped this in
the past?
Thankx for any help!
Michael
Mike Hunter - Box's and CPU's from HELL: iapx80[012]86, PR1ME 50 Series, 1750a
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