Very interesting. It also makes clear that for OKI at least the -2 is the 
high speed version compared to the -5 version.

I just looked through the Toshiba datasheet and found no similar warnings.

Rich Leary

On Saturday, January 17, 2015 at 12:50:48 PM UTC-7, David Fry wrote:

> Guys,
>
> Something has just made me search online and pull the datasheet for the 
> 82C55,
> John mentioned that he uses on all 3 boards the OKI82C55A-2 or the 
> NEC82C55AC-2
> I use a Mitsubishi M5MB82C55AP-5, so what's the difference between the -2 
> and the -5 versions, maybe a little more
> than you think, check out page 20,21 and 22 of the OKI datasheet attached 
> regarding port 'B' instability.
>
>
> Is this a problem for all manufacturers of -5 versions ? Who knows...
>
> Just another thing to check out
>
> regards
>
> David Fry
>
>
> On Saturday, January 17, 2015 at 7:00:19 PM UTC, monahanz wrote:
>
>> Rich I just pulled my 3 working cards.  They have been there for now 
>> years! 
>>
>>  
>>
>> I have a Signetics 7403A in one, one labeled S7403N, and the third is a 
>> Ti 74LS03. The first two chips are from 1973, cannot figure out the date of 
>> the Ti chip. .  Interestingly RR1 in the first two  cases is a 1K resistor 
>> SIL, the Ti74LS03 chip has a 680 SIL.  
>>
>>  
>>
>> Two of the 8255s are  OKI82C55A-2  the other is a NEC82C55AC-2.  I 
>> generally use Kingston 4GB CF cards (white flower picture on it) but also 
>> use Maxell 4GB and Patriot 4GB cards are also 100% reliable.
>>
>>  
>>
>> One board is in a 10 slot motherboard, one a Compupro 18 slot motherboard 
>> , the other (my main system) is in a 21 slot motherboard.  The 10 & 21 slot 
>> buses have active termination. The “normal” CPU is our Z80 V2 board running 
>> at 10MHz (1 RAM wait state, 2 IO wait states, 1 ROM wait state).  However 
>> no problems with any of the 8086 family of CPU’s.  David was testing the 
>> 68K and had some issue I seem to remember above 6MHz but I think that was 
>> the 68K CPU boards “fault”.
>>
>>  
>>
>> Not sure this helps. But you might want to search around for an old 
>> 7403.  
>>
>>  
>>
>> At one time I was thinking of doing another version of the board perhaps 
>> using a SD card as well, but frankly this one seemed to work so well it 
>> fell to the bottom of the priority list.
>>
>>  
>>
>> John
>>
>>  
>>
>>  
>>
>>  
>>
>> *From:* Rich Leary [mailto:[email protected]] 
>> *Sent:* Saturday, January 17, 2015 8:41 AM
>> *To:* [email protected]
>> *Cc:* [email protected]
>> *Subject:* Re: [N8VEM-S100:6035] Dual IDE/CF V2a
>>
>>  
>>
>> John,
>>
>>  
>>
>> It is the most recent release. Silkscreen says 02a.
>>
>>  
>>
>> Rich
>>
>> On Friday, January 16, 2015 at 11:43:00 PM UTC-7, monahanz wrote:
>>
>> Rich are you referring to the V1 or later V3 Dual IDE/CF board.    On the 
>> web page 
>>
>>
>> http://s100computers.com/My%20System%20Pages/IDE%20Board/My%20IDE%20Card.htm
>>
>>  
>>
>> I used Open Collectors 7403’s with 680 Ohm pull-ups for the Read, Write 
>> and Reset signals on the V3 board.  Seems to work fine for me. Been using 
>> them, (2 boards), for 2 years now.
>>
>> John
>>
>>  
>>
>>  
>>
>> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On 
>> Behalf Of *Rich Leary
>> *Sent:* Friday, January 16, 2015 9:15 PM
>> *To:* [email protected]
>> *Cc:* [email protected]
>> *Subject:* Re: [N8VEM-S100:6035] Dual IDE/CF V2a
>>
>>  
>>
>> John,
>>
>>  
>>
>> It is puzzling. I am using all 74LS except the two 74S03s and have tried 
>> both NMOS and CMOS varieties of the 8255.
>>
>>  
>>
>> I have gone back to the CF and IDE specs and looked hard at the signal 
>> level specifications. My preliminary look seems to conflict with the build 
>> notes.
>>
>>  
>>
>> The CF spec defines three type of signals at the interface and one of 
>> them (Type 1) does specify a 4V Vih for some signals. Other signals use 
>> either 2.0V or 2.8V.
>>
>>  
>>
>> What is confusing is that the Type 1 signals are the address lines (An) 
>> and the data lines (Dn). The IORD, IOWR, and CSn (chip select n) lines are 
>> all Type 3 and the card inputs for those lines only require Vih of 2.8V to 
>> trigger the Schmitt Trigger that Type 3 uses. But the IORD, IOWR, and 
>> CSn lines are what are driven by the 74S03 or 74H03 ICs on the S100 board. 
>> RESET is a Type 2 signal and Vih need only be 2.0V.
>>
>>  
>>
>> The only on-board pull ups are those associated with the 74S03 or 74H03 
>> ICs and they are very low value. The schematic shows 680 ohm but the notes 
>> suggest something like 330.
>>
>>  
>>
>> What is also important to note is that the CF card input leakage current 
>> is very low at +- 1 uA so whatever is driving all CF lines is doing so at a 
>> very low load level. Since the IDE An and IDE Dn lines all connected to the 
>> 8255 ports that probably explains why those lines may be OK. In my Toshiba 
>> TMP82C55A datasheet it shows a Voh of Vcc-0.8V for Ioh of -100uA. As long 
>> as the load seen by the 8255 is just one of two CF cards with a total 
>> leakage of +- 2 uA that would work. But any 8255 outputs driving TTL inputs 
>> may have a low or marginal Voh at least for Dn and An.
>>
>>  
>>
>> I can see no reasons for use of the high power - high speed gates and the 
>> low value pull ups on the IORD, IOWR, CSn, and RESET lines. As I read the 
>> specs it looks like those gates can be 74LS00's with no pull up or much 
>> higher pull ups (50K ?). In addition if we do not need to switch the higher 
>> currents associated with the low value pull ups that will reduce noise 
>> levels on the board.
>>
>>  
>>
>> I need to read the CF spec again and do a line by line gozinta versus 
>> gozouta analysis before reaching for the de-soldering braid and solder 
>> sucker. It is possible that I have completely misread the spec and if so I 
>> apologize for the confusion but right now I think there may be some 
>> low-hanging fruit that should be harvested. Even if what my initial look 
>> indicates proves correct there may be other issues.
>>
>>  
>>
>> I will get back to everyone hopefully by late on the 18th.
>>
>>  
>>
>> If anyone has reason to show me the error in my thinking please fire away 
>> - at my age my skin has absorbed many blasts and a little more will not 
>> hurt.
>>
>>  
>>
>> Rich Leary
>>
>>  
>>
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