On 07/09/2020 20:03, mm0fmf wrote:
On 07/09/2020 14:56, Andy Burns wrote:
The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Andy Burns wrote:

The Natural Philosopher wrote:

But how do you get anything (kermit) ON to the PC 1512?

Ask nicely someone who's got a machine with a 5¼" floppy drive.

Who could then read thw 15i2 floppirs ANYWAY...?

bit tedious copying 20MB via 360kB floppies

you could send kermit over the serial ports,

copy /b kermit.exe com1:

except I think on the receiving size ^Z characters in the file will
**** it up, write a bin2hex program on the modern PC, transfer the
kermit.hex as ASCII, then use GW/QBASIC on the ancient PC to convert
it back to binary?

That's the kind of thing I'd do.

There used to be "mini kermits" in Basic that you could transfer as text...

Dave