3 Jun
2006
3 Jun
'06
11:59 p.m.
On Sat, 3 Jun 2006, woodelf wrote:
Are you saying that using a PC for a terminal is required for this
board???
--
David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
John Allain wrote:
Maybe the GIDE interface can be adapted for use with this board. It's
just a couple GALs and not much more connected to data and address lines.
About paper tape, I've been pondering now and then about making a
punch/reader that uses cash register tape.
I should apologize for my past misunderstanding.
I thought that 6120's just _weren't available_ and that the kit required
you to cannibalize your own cpu chip from a classiccsomething.
That made a read of your message actually better news than I thought.
I kind of thought that too.
I wish the fact that the PDP-8 clone can be hooked upto a IDE drive
and you have real PDP-8 TTY I/O was more implied at the time. I would
like to get this clone ( PCB & custiom parts) but I still feel with out
a paper tape reader/punch you just can't do software right with the 8. John A.
PS. And the idea of using a PC for a smart terminal *SUCKS*.