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From: Ron.Bean@circle.UUCP (Ron Bean)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Serial cards
Message-ID: <172.23B574A0@circle.UUCP>
Date: 26 Dec 88 00:15:35 GMT
Organization: The First Circle BBS, Madison WI (608) 271-0687
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   After all this time, I can't believe you guys still have to beg 

for extra serial ports.
 
   If you hadn't noticed, the hardware already exists-- just add
software. A while back (maybe last year) Steve Ciarcia designed a
printer buffer, which consists of a Hitachi Z80 with two built-in
serial ports, plus couple of parallel ports, some RAM, and an
EPROM. You can buy it from Micromint, either complete or as a
kit. If you'd rather have an SCSI device, it has the same bus
connector as his SB180 computer, so you can use his SCSI board.
When the article appeared, I thought "aha, there's the extra
serial ports for the ST and Amiga". But apparently nobody read
my mind and took the hint.
 
   So all ya gotta do is, a couple of you get together and agree
on a protocol, then one go off and write the device drivers for
the Amiga, and the other go and write a new EPROM for the Z80.
 
 


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