20 Oct
2007
20 Oct
'07
1:59 p.m.
Dan Roganti wrote:
Jules Richardson wrote:
Hmm, I'll take a look at that - I like the sound of it. I really don't need
USB, and I can't imagine using this where I don't have Ethernet handy anyway.
(Even if I did, I suspect it wouldn't be too hard to put a CF interface onto
the hardware, and 1GB of local CF storage is cheap these days - if it's got a
RS232 interface, it'd be trivial to hook a terminal up to it and drive it that
way)
I've not got any free time for the coming couple of months, but one of the
things that's got in the way in the past is the lack of a suitable cheap
development board to play around with and try some stuff out. Maybe later this
year...
cheers
Jules
Grant Stockly wrote:
There's already an inexpensive eZ80F91 development board from Zilog for
the budget conscious -only $99. And it's complete with cables, jtag
debugger, IDE, and C compiler. It has an ethernet port among other
interfaces. It doesn't have USB, but easily done with a RS232-USB
converter. The expansion interface provides all the GPIO's to let you
connect a floppy interface.And it's available from Mouser or Digikey. The base eZ80SBC from howard is $250. Add $100
for the disk board...
Hmmm, I suppose if a SASI interface and ST412 interface could be added
to talk to those kind of devices too, $250 wouldn't be too bad for the
'core' portion. $350 for just a floppy interface is perhaps a little
on the high side, though.