[sebhc] 64K memory

[Jack Rubin]

We're kind of talking about the same thing, except that the board would
masquerade as a disk controller instead of a tape controller - and the
PC would look like a disk drive instead of a tape deck.

Jack

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sebhc at sebhc.org [mailto:sebhc at sebhc.org] On Behalf Of 
> Carroll Waddell
> Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2004 7:22 PM
> To: sebhc at sebhc.org
> Subject: Re: [sebhc] 64K memory
> 
> 
> If your speaking about high speed serial on an H8, the only problem I 
> see is that the H8 itself isn't high speed.
> The next project I want to build is a board that the H8 thinks is the 
> tape interface (H8-5) but can connect to the PC by serial 
> port and let 
> the PC emulate 2 cassette machines. I'm working on a new H19 
> emulation 
> program, and I plan to include software that will do the cassette 
> emulation.
> Carroll
> 
> Jack Rubin wrote:
> 
> >Carroll - I'm looking forward to trying it out - with that much real 
> >estate, how about adding some additional features?  I'd like 
> to see a 
> >16550 or two to allow high speed serial sharing with (yet to be
> >configured) PC disk server.
> >
> >Jack
> >
> >  
> >
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: sebhc at sebhc.org [mailto:sebhc at sebhc.org] On Behalf Of
> >>Carroll Waddell
> >>Sent: Sunday, May 16, 2004 4:59 PM
> >>To: sebhc at staunch89er.com
> >>Subject: [sebhc] 64K memory
> >>
> >>
> >>If anyone is interested, I have been designing a 64K memory
> >>card for the 
> >>H8. I'm sending Jack a prototype of the card to try out. I've 
> >>tested it, 
> >>but I'd like it tested by someone beside me. If there is enough 
> >>interest, we could get a PCB fab house like PCBExpress to 
> make the PC 
> >>boards. If could get 20 or 25 people who wanted one, we could 
> >>get them 
> >>for about $55 each. This is a half size (6 x 6) card. 
> >>PCBExpress boards 
> >>would be about $35 each, so the card and all parts would be 
> >>about $55 if 
> >>you had to buy everything.
> >>Carroll
> >>
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