20 Jul
2002
20 Jul
'02
10:05 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
There have been paper tape punches/readers, digital
tape drives and even
disk drives with RS232 interfaces. But most of them didn't have any form
of block addressing -- they just saved data to replay it later. Would
that be any use?
This is for bootstrap/diagnostic style programing similar to a pdp-8 with 4kw of
memory and a TTY. The current CPU design on reset will load a RIM style program
from a bootstrap device that is currently the serial
port. In time I get a PCB
board made and burn a erial prom for the FPGA and add a
real floppy disk or IDE
interface i/o board.
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Ben Franchuk - Dawn * 12/24 bit cpu *
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