<What might be fun would be an S-100 card to serve as an interface to a
<Monochrome/Hercules equivalent card and an IBM-style keyboard, since these
They do exist! Hercules made cards for the s100 machines that ran DOS!
<Fire). One of those little switch boxes would serve just fine. The 8.0 MH
<Z80 wouldn't be sufficient to drive a VGA, so no need for anything fancy.
Why not? I'm currently planning to use ISA16 and herc video for a z280
system. Z280 has a 16 bit bus mode. The only thing needed to support
herc using a z80 is a MMU to allow mapping the display out of the address
space so that you have room for CP/M. I've done some testing to verify
this will work.
<It could even support two short ISA cards.
More if you buffer the bus!
Allison
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