5 Jun
2003
5 Jun
'03
6:32 a.m.
--- Tony Duell <ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
I understand. I'm both a software and a hardware hacker, so I don't mind
moving the set-point over a bit for a combination solution.
Me too, actually, mut more on the hardware side.
If you
are going to do that, why not use a DEC CPU?
I thought about suggesting that, but the hardware hacker in me wants to
keep it as simple as possible :-) Anyway,
I'm more of a Unibus person...
Fair enough. I do both (plus VAXBI) since I used to make all of that It's a
pity that computers with lots of parallel I/O lines are so
uncommon, and the user ports are out of fashion now...
No doubt. I did a lot of stuff with the User Port on the PET and C-64 One thing I
would _love_ to find is a portable-ish machine which can
write a disk that's readable on a PC, and which has at least 32 parallel
I/O lines, totally user controllable.
Hmm... you'll laugh... my SBC-6120 w/IOB-6120 fits the bill... the