RE: [N8VEM-S100:175] Re: S-100 Console IO boards ordered!

["John Monahan" <mon...@vitasoft.org>]

Further to what Andrew has below Todd.... The board can be configured to any
two ports (of the 256 available on Z80) for status and data. The lower of
the two can be status or data and vice versa for the higher of the two. Any
bit can be the status bit and it can be set high or low. All that said,  if
you have software that is looking at a UART for example that is also
checking parity, bit overruns etc you will have to simplify the BIOS
routine.  The board is setup to splice into simple parallel type I/O for
example like that on the SD Systems 8024 video board.

John


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From: n8vem...@googlegroups.com [mailto:n8vem...@googlegroups.com] On
Behalf Of lynchaj
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 3:46 AM
To: N8VEM-S100
Subject: [N8VEM-S100:175] Re: S-100 Console IO boards ordered!

Hi Todd!  Thanks!  Yes, the S-100 Console IO boards are intended to emulate
a serial port and its connection to a terminal.  It doesn't matter what
operating system you use since it appears as a generic UART (or USART, ACIA,
etc).

The board is flexible with regards to what UART configuration it can emulate
but will require some changes to the Propeller program and configuration
jumpers if it is something other than the default setting.  John has a
description on the S100computers.com website.

Thanks and have a nice day!

Andrew Lynch



On Apr 18, 9:48 pm, litte...@mchsi.com wrote:
> I would like one of these boards, but I have no plans of running CP/M 
> right now, just booting from N* Dos & Basic on an Imsai 8080.
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> If it could emulate a serial port,
> I'd be interested.
>
> Todd
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrew Lynch" <lyn...@yahoo.com>
> To: n8vem...@googlegroups.com
> Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 5:36:29 PM GMT -06:00 Central America
> Subject: [N8VEM-S100:171] S-100 Console IO boards ordered!
>
> Hi!  I ordered the first batch of S-100 Console IO boards.  They should be
here the first week of May.
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> The S-100 Console IO has evolved quite a bit during its development.  Now
it is basically a terminal in an S-100 board.
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> You plug in a VGA monitor and PS/2 keyboard and it replaces or augments
the serial board and terminal combination.
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> The S-100 Console IO is very flexible (Thanks to John?s great design) 
> so it can mimic legacy UARTs
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> The Propeller is reprogrammable so it can emulate legacy terminals.
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> Thanks and have a nice day!
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> Andrew Lynch
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