WS>  Re: Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer
WS>  By: mark lewis to William Schaub on Tue Aug 03 2010 09:26 pm


WS> >  WS> All of this is done over the bit banger port on the coco.

WS> > you do know that the first question you'll like get from those just readi
WS> > don't even know what a coco is is going to be "what's a
'bit banger' port

WS> > many these days don't even know what a serial or parallel port is... they
WS> > spoilt by USB...

WS> > )\/(ark

WS> >

WS>Well I figure it is safe to assume that anyone that is reading fidonet on a
WS>system and is in the Classic Computer Echo would know what a bit banger port
WS>is or might be. (I should have said serial port, although its not as nice as
WS>real serial port with a UART)

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William,

Pardon My Language, please.

I started using a IBM PC Compatiable computer in February 1994.

That was Ten years AFTER I purchased a Commodore 64 with Floppy Drive
and VicModem in March 1984.

A few months after I got the C=64 I learned of a Local BBS for Commodore
users and started BBSing.

Later, I learned of the telephone number of PC BBSs and Logged on so I
could read about what is different and what is simular(sp?) between the
two OS's.

I was then able to help Friends with their PCs.    ;-)

I've never been on a COCO BBS to learn anything about the coco's.

That first PC BBS I joined wasn't a FIDO BBS, it was a GT POWER BBS.

When You first mentioned the bit banger port on the coco, I thought it
was a Serial Port function.

And reading later messages in this echo I found out that I was correct.

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