19 Oct
2006
19 Oct
'06
12:59 p.m.
On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Jules Richardson wrote:
Actually, some of the PIC micros have RS232 ability
(with the addition
of line drivers) I believe and might kill two birds with one stone. Not
sure what the cost of RAM would be - cheap if DRAM I suppose, but then
there's the complexity of refreshing... SRAM would make life really
easy.
I don't think that using an RS232 interface would be the Ideal Approach.
The objective of this external drive box is to equip a "modern" computer
with archaic disk drives. Given this, a USB interface would be the better
choice since it would presumably require no additional driver fiddling.
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David Griffith
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