[sebhc] 64K memory

[Carroll Waddell]

I hadn't thought about that. If we could find out the commands for the 
H47, might be able to swing it. I've heard that the 47 interface was 
serial with all the smarts in the 47 drive.
Carroll

Jack Rubin wrote:

>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.
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>>-----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
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>>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
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>>Jack Rubin wrote:
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>>>Carroll - I'm looking forward to trying it out - with that much real 
>>>estate, how about adding some additional features?  I'd like 
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>>>16550 or two to allow high speed serial sharing with (yet to be
>>>configured) PC disk server.
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>>>Jack
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>>>>-----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
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>>>>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 
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>>make the PC 
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>>>>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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