On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 6:47 PM Fred Cisin via cctalk <[email protected]> wrote:
> The 5150 had a cassette port! > Diagnostics were supplied on cassette tape. [...] > There was an outfit that marketed a sorta network using the 5150 cassette > port, for classroom distribution, etc. There was the Radio Shack Network 2 which worked like that. It was originally designed for use with TRS-80s (a master disk system used by the teacher and diskless machines used by the students). I've never heard of it being used with the 5150 but I suspect it would work. I did hear of people using the motor control relay on the 5150 (you could control it easily from Microsoft BASIC, for example) as a single-bit output to key a CW radio transmitter (morse code), etc. And I think I read of somebody who used a 5150 as a sales cash register and used the relay to release the cash drawer. -tony
