- 33 -
new programs from a PC and then save the program to the floppy disk. However,
Timesharing BASIC cannot keep up with as fast a serial transfer rate as other
versions of BASIC. Choose the “Setup->Serial Port” menu option in either Ter-
aTerm window and enter “10” in the “msec/char” field and “300” in the
“msec/line” field. This slows the character transfer rate to about 100 char-
acters per second and provides a 0.3 second delay after each line to give BA-
SIC time to process the line of code. Even at this slower rate, it is impor-
tant that there is no activity on the second user terminal while downloading
a program in this manner. Increase the msec/char field to 20 if you experi-
ence load problems.
A number of BASIC programs are present in the folders found in the “BA-
SIC\BASIC programs” folder. Follow these steps to try the programs:
1) Type “NEW” followed by RETURN to clear program memory.
2) Use the “File->Send File” menu option in TeraTerm to browse to and
transmit the BASIC program you want to load.
3) The program will display on the screen as BASIC reads it in. The file
transmit dialog box will close before the PC actually finishes trans-
mitting the program. This is normal.
Once a program is in memory, you can save the program to floppy disk using
the “SAVE” command. For example, to save a program in memory to the file name
“NEWPROG,” type the following:
SAVE “NEWPROG”
and press RETURN to write the program to the floppy disk.
If you have modified a floppy with new content and you want to archive the
floppy to your PC, follow the “Save Floppy Content to PC” instructions in the
“Floppy Disk Menu” section of Part 2, “Configuration Monitor” to write the
floppy image to a file on your PC.
More Information
Be sure to look at the Timesharing BASIC manual (Altair Manuals\MITS Time-
sharing BASIC.pdf) for more information. Note: The manual is for Timesharing
BASIC version 2, but the version running on the computer is version 1.1, so
there are a few differences between the manual and the running version.
To Previous Page
