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From: blochowi@rt3.cs.wisc.edu (Jason Blochowiak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: WANTED: construction plans for serial card
Summary: Any general advice/info on building a card for a //e or //gs?
Keywords: hardware, card, slots, DMA
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Date: 17 Nov 89 00:48:08 GMT
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In article <46da0b3e.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> mort@apollo.HP.COM (Stephen Moriarty) writes:
>I'm just getting my new IIe online and need a serial card.
>Although $50 is very reasonable for a new one, I can't believe
>it's that difficult to build one for much less money.

	It may not be all that difficult, but unless you want to write your
own terminal program to drive it, you'll probably have to make it compatible
with something - the most common serial card is the Super Serial card (or
clones).

>Any info on
>magazine articles, sources for blank IIe circuit boards, etc.
>would be greatly appreciated.
> [...]

	Uh, me too - I was also told that someone sold a bread board that stuck
into one of the slots. I'm working on something for the //gs with a friend,
and I'm just wondering if there's anyone out there that could give us some tips
or "things to avoid" in //e (or, preferably, //gs) card design. We'd at least
like to get past this without losing any motherboards ;) This will be a DMA
card as well, so any tips there would also be appreciated.

>Stephen
>ARPA: mort@apollo.hp.com        UUCP: ...{decvax, umix, mit-eddie}!apollo!mort

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