Re: [N8VEM-S100:1330] terminating the backplane...

[Douglas Goodall <douglas...@mac.com>]

Andrew,

Not a bad idea for an N8VEM board. We have quite a few S-100 people, and
terminated motherboards are harder to come by. Beyond that, those of us who
realize our busses are not terminated are sad. :-(

Douglas

On Jan 28, 2013, at 2:47 PM, Andrew Lynch <LYN...@YAHOO.COM> wrote:

> Hi Douglas!  Thanks!   Yes, it would be easy to build a bus terminator using
> an S-100 Regular Prototyping board.  Basically just copy the circuit from
> the S-100 backplane onto a S-100 regular prototyping board.  It is a fairly
> simple circuit and works wonders on a noisy bus.
> 
> Thanks and have a nice day!
> 
> Andrew Lynch
> 
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>> Subject: [N8VEM-S100:1329] terminating the backplane...
>> 
>> Friends,
>> 
>> Is it possible to use a prototyping card to terminate an otherwise
>> unterminated backplane?
>> 
>> How would one go about testing the backplane to see if termination issues
>> are present?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Douglas Goodall
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