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by chucker
Thu Aug 02, 2018 8:46 am
Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
Topic: Parallelport communication.
Replies: 6
Views: 24280

Re: Parallelport communication.

It just occurred to me that I can probably pull this off with the "copy filename.txt COM1" command - and without any qbasic what so ever. This saddens me. I will revive the thread if by any merry happenstance that doesnt work, and i have to code it myself.
by chucker
Thu Aug 02, 2018 7:25 am
Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
Topic: Parallelport communication.
Replies: 6
Views: 24280

Re: Parallelport communication.

I forgot to mention; I do have an MCA modem, but no modem software - and no modem emulator at hand (if any is available - or can be coded)
by chucker
Thu Aug 02, 2018 7:24 am
Forum: QBASIC and QB64 Questions & Answers
Topic: Parallelport communication.
Replies: 6
Views: 24280

Parallelport communication.

Hello! So, I am in the lucky situation that i have just revived an old IBM machine. However, the problem with the machine is, that it has only IBM MCA card expansions, the harddrive is ESDI and the only communication options it has, is a DB25 parallelport and a DB25 Serial port. And also a PS/2 port...