What is a Sirius? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

6 Jul 1999

Hi Tony,

...
 ....printer port that looks to be Centronics, but in
fact it has enough
lines, and the right buffers, to be GPIB if you can get the right
software.... 
Have you ever found software which will drive the Centronics port as GPIB? I've
been looking around since I first got a Sirius in '88 but have never found any.

...
 Sound is a CI-55516 CODEC linked to a 6852 serial chip.
There's a
built-in speaker, and a header plug for audio input (!). I've never seen
software for that either, though. 

If you mean software which drives the CODEC I've only ever came across one
program which uses it, and that was a demo disc which displayed various hi-res
graphics and played back digitised music and speech.

I was given to understand that a few games came out for the Sirius which used
the CODEC, but I don't know any details at all.

...
 ....The hardware would be capable of DS operation, but
I've
never seen suitable drives. 
The DS drives are identical to the single sided ones, with the obvious
exception of the extra head.... ;-)

ISTR they're pretty much the same as the 360K drives used in the IBM PC
(MPI-40s?) with the exception of the analogue board being removed, you could
probably press one of those into service?

  TTFN - Pete.

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