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And that reminded me of a childhood project where I hooked the user port (8 bit parallel) of one BBC up to another and wrote a chat program that sent data from one machine to another by POKEing ASCII values IIRC. Not a million miles from what you could do with an IBM PC printer port.

Not much use, the cable was about a foot long.

My child's generation won't be able to do that, but I'm glad we have arduinos and ESP32s to fill the same niche.



netcat on a lan can do it for kids today


it's less exciting just plugging an ethernet cable in




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