Hi John, both Vince and Andrew have made mention of an interest in seeing a version of DEC mini computer technology brought onto the S100 bus (if this is possible). This idea is beginning to grow on me and I would like to add my interest to the number (now 3 :-) ) I have no experience whatsoever in this area of vintage computing, but what a trip down the history of computing it could be. I noticed that the HD1-6120 seems to be available in small numbers (including from UT source) http://www.ebay.com/sch/Business-Industrial-/12576/i.html?_from=R40&_nkw=hd1-6120 and also the DCJ11 although price is somewhat higher http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=dcj11 or maybe some other significant vintage mini...., again I'm not sure how practical a suggestion this is but with the Z80 done and the Intel x86 track done my processor interests are now covered. regards David Fry
On Tuesday, July 29, 2014 6:58:58 PM UTC+1, monahanz wrote: > I have been doing some long term planning as to the direction I would > take in doing new S100 boards. To recap, we now have a 6502, Z80, 8080 > (Josh), 68000, 8088, 8086, 80286 and soon an 80386 set of boards on the > S1000 bus. Andrew and I have already started laying out an 80486 board. > > > > Since I do a lot of flying on business I have time to read up on chips and > recently I have been thinking what would be the best way to get ARM CPU's > on the bus. There are many types, and while one could start with a bare > chip it does seem to make more sense to start with an embedded module. > There are many of these, most of which boot up Linux immediately. One > particular one I'm fairly impressed with is an Italian one called "Aria > G25" see:- > > > > *http://www.acmesystems.it/aria* <http://www.acmesystems.it/aria> > > > > Also it lends itself to easy pin splicing/layout on a board. It has good > documentation and software support. I particularly like the fact that it > has 60 GPIO pins. These could be easily spliced into our S100 bus so we > could use our current boards for I/O. (In fact at 400MHz, one could also > use the S100 RAM!). I know some of you will view this as sticking a > Lamborghini engine in a Volkswagen, but would it not be neat to see Linus > running on the S100 bus. > > > > Comments please, in particular I would be interested in any other similar > modules. > > > > John > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "N8VEM-S100" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
