21 Dec
2007
21 Dec
'07
9:43 p.m.
On Thursday 20 December 2007 15:15, Tom Watson wrote:
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 13:26:24 -0200 "Alexandre
Souza" said:
If you can still find them, ancient XT motherboards ought to be just right
for this type of service. Just get an old video board (will it work with a
CGA board?) and a serial I/O card and plug in the "extra" bios chips for
the emulator. Of course, several options could be added:
1) Support for a character based printer (both serial and parallel)
2) Some sort of scrolling (got to use that 640k of memory somehow!)
3) Color support (if you got a CGA card, use it!).
4) Provisions for 40 column mode (so you can use the RS-170 output to a TV
set)
5) Add a network card for a telnet client (probably a bother since there
are so many network cards)
Not that many in 8-bit. I have some Etherlink I cards that could be useful
for someone that wanted to try this...
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Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin
I think
this project is excellent and a kick-ass way to use spare old
hardware lying around (which is more likely to have a working 25-pin
serial port than any modern machine). I love this project.
Although there are cheap CF cards today, it would be a hit if it
could be ROMable and put in place of BIOS chip :o)