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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!agate!agate!usenet
  2. From: ajc@pa.dec.com (AJ Casamento)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.archives
  4. Subject: [comp.sys.dec] i - ACCESS.bus Specifications are now on line...
  5. Followup-To: comp.sys.dec
  6. Date: 21 Aug 1992 07:14:46 GMT
  7. Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
  8. Lines: 54
  9. Approved: adam@soda.berkeley.edu
  10. Distribution: world
  11. Message-ID: <172556INNgig@agate.berkeley.edu>
  12. References: <AJC.92Aug18000018@thendara.pa.dec.com>
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  14. X-Original-Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
  15. X-Original-Date: 18 Aug 92 00:00:18
  16.  
  17. Archive-name: auto/comp.sys.dec/i-ACCESS-bus-Specifications-are-now-on-line
  18.  
  19.  
  20. Folks,
  21.  
  22.   I had promised to get a copy of the ACCESS.bus specifications posted as soon
  23. as they were available. Well, the ACCESS.bus Industry Group met last week and
  24. we finally have the approved specifications available on line. You can get a
  25. copy by using anonymous ftp on:
  26.  
  27. gatekeeper   16.1.0.2    gatekeeper:pub/DEC/TriAdd/A.bus_spec_sec_0_v2_0.ps
  28.                           A.bus_spec_sec_0_v2_0.ps.Z
  29.                           A.bus_spec_sec_1_v2_0.ps
  30.                           A.bus_spec_sec_1_v2_0.ps.Z
  31.                           A.bus_spec_sec_2_v2_0.ps
  32.                           A.bus_spec_sec_2_v2_0.ps.Z
  33.                           A.bus_spec_sec_3_v2_0.ps
  34.                           A.bus_spec_sec_3_v2_0.ps.Z
  35.                           A.bus_spec_sec_4_v2_0.ps
  36.                           A.bus_spec_sec_4_v2_0.ps.Z
  37.                           A.bus_spec_sec_5_v2_0.ps
  38.                           A.bus_spec_sec_5_v2_0.ps.Z
  39.  
  40.  
  41.   For those of you who may not be familiar with ACCESS.bus, it's a serial bus
  42. for relatively low speed devices. Some of it's relevant features are:
  43.  
  44.         * Support for up to 14 devices at a time.
  45.  
  46.         * 8 meters of electrical cable length.
  47.  
  48.         * Based on the Phillips/Signetics I2C (I Squared C) bus. The
  49.           I2C microprosseor is only about $2.00 in the US.
  50.  
  51.         * Easily applicable to keyboards, mice (pointers), bar code
  52.           readers, hand held scanners, and so on.
  53.  
  54.  
  55. I hope that this gets you all started. More information can be obtained by
  56. seding mail to     triadd@decwrl.dec.com  with your requests.
  57.  
  58.                 Thanx,
  59.                   AJ
  60.  
  61.  
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