[cctalk] Re: CoreNET PC-51 info (IBM 5110)

2022-11-10 Thread Christian Corti via cctalk
On Wed, 9 Nov 2022, Steve Lewis wrote: translating those results to "display character codes." I don't think the 5110 has a clock on its own, so you'd have to carefully time things? (like doing audio on an original Apple 2 with no RTC module). Sure it has. The ASync card does not have an

[cctalk] Re: CoreNET PC-51 info (IBM 5110)

2022-11-09 Thread Steve Lewis via cctalk
Just yesterday, I received the following notes from Hal Prewitt of CORE (see below). Some highlights: - confirmation that use of async, comm, parallel card was not necessary - from the PC51 manual, their hard drives were accessed as "device 08" (D08 instead of D80 for the IBM disk drive) - gives

[cctalk] Re: CoreNET PC-51 info (IBM 5110)

2022-11-09 Thread Steve Lewis via cctalk
> Remember: this card is absolutely dumb, it essentially only has shift > registers and a clock generator Ah, the clock might be important. I was thinking of a terminal that could be written without the async card, and using maybe 3 pins on those set of external DB25 connectors. This is

[cctalk] Re: CoreNET PC-51 info (IBM 5110)

2022-11-09 Thread Christian Corti via cctalk
On Wed, 9 Nov 2022, Steve Lewis wrote: always imagined it would be possible to "bit bang" across these external IO pins with some PALM-assembly -- the machine should be fast enough to encode 7-bit ASCII at 300 baud across those pins, maybe 1200. I'm not sure if The PALM and thus the 51[012]0