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Macintosh Connectivity, Network First Steps, Continued

I copied the Network Software Installer file that I downloaded from the MacSE to the ZIP disk for the MacPlus. After booting the MacPlus I double clicked in the NSI file to unwrap it.  When that was done I double

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USB Serial Port

I forgot all about testing the USB serial port yesterday, until late in the day. Today, I spent a little bit of time testing it.  I tried it on the Linux laptop first and what I thought was the new

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Printing, Part 2 (and serial ports)

The ribbons came in today.  I tried them out and they worked well.  I printed a sign and a  banner. I loaded up my prodos writing diskette and printed out a listing of the startup program.  After printing the listing,

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Apple //c as a Terminal, Part 2

Today, I managed to make it work, with a little help from several web resources.  The first was: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/find-out-linux-serial-ports-with-setserial/  I tried: $ dmesg | grep tty  I got: [  0.000000] console [tty0] enabled  [  0.688953] 00:09: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8

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