28 Aug
2002
28 Aug
'02
3:45 p.m.
Roger Merchberger wrote:
At 20:14 08/28/2002 -0700, you wrote:
[ga-snippage...]
What I would like to see a small micro processer board
with a flash memory and a serial port and a few switches.
This would be used to emulate a paper tape reader/punch
for things like bootstraps and other small programs like
FOCAL for the PDP-8 or other early computers that did
not boot from BASIC in rom.
It's true - the lowest effort solution is to
take a junk PC and let it
do all the work. Not very small and not very power efficient.
Just found this on 'net-walkabout...
http://www.beyondlogic.org/keyboard/keybrd.htm
More info than you could ever wanna know about how to interface to a
PC/AT keyboard....
HTH,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger