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Article #545MICRO folklore
From: jha... Joseph H Allen
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1989 03:37
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1989 03:37
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Anyone remember saving $100 by writing a printer device driver for Atari 800s that went through the joystick ports instead of the serial port? Mine was 40 bytes long- just enough to fit in the cassete port buffer. It translated the ATASCII code for new line into CR. Also, it didn't have a timeout. Instead you just held down the BUSY line to quickly ignore a printout.
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!uunet!wuarchive!usc!snorkelwacker!spdcc!merk!xylogics!cloud9!jjmhome!m2c!wpi!jhallen From: jha...@wpi.wpi.edu (Joseph H Allen) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: MICRO folklore Message-ID: <6381@wpi.wpi.edu> Date: 21 Dec 89 03:37:19 GMT Reply-To: jha...@wpi.wpi.edu (Joseph H Allen) Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester ,MA Lines: 8 Posted: Thu Dec 21 04:37:19 1989 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit