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- From: Q-Bert@qube.OCUnix.On.Ca (Q-Bert)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: I Need more IO Ports!
- Distribution: world
- Message-ID: <Q-Bert.0jkk@qube.OCUnix.On.Ca>
- Date: 23 Aug 92 09:14:03 EDT
- Organization: The QuBE BBS
- Lines: 46
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- In a message dated Sat 21 Aug 92 23:42, Orre@thalamus.sans.kth.se (roland O
- wrote:
-
- OO> In article <1992Aug21.115342.2033@cs.uow.edu.au>
- OO> u8705377@cs.uow.edu.au (Paul Anthony Wilkinson) writes:
-
- >...
- > Does anyone know of a card which provides some general purpose bit
- > addressable IO ports for the Amiga?
- OO> If you have an Amiga 500, 1000 or 2000 you can get an IO board that
- OO> was
- OO> described as kit-ware in the Feb 91 issue of Amazing Computing/Amiga.
- OO> This board allows an easy upgrade to 4 extra serial ports and 4 extra
- OO> parallel ports. The kit includes drivers with source code. The board
- OO> utilizes a lazy port address decoding on these machines (not on the
- OO> 3000). It utilizes 6552, twin ACIA for the serial and 6522, VIA for
- OO> the parallel ports. MIDI rate is managed with an extra oscillator.
-
- OO> The kit is sold from, among many others, the Puzzle factory. If you
- OO> need more info please tell me.
-
- WARNING WARNING WILL ROBINSON!!!
-
- I have been trying to build this thing for over 6 months now. The reason
- is that Puzzle Factory does NOT make the PCB anymore. So if you do like I
- did, and buy all the pieces for the project and then figure out that you
- have no PCB to put them on, you sort of paint yourself into a corner.
-
- I have, at this time, tried to put the project on a protoboard, and figured
- out that many times 40 pins is a wonderfull thing to get severely mixed up
- with. Also, I have tried to design a PCB for the parts, using PCBCAD and
- figured that it wasn't that simple. If you have never photoetched, don't.
-
- The bottom line is: It's cheap (ya cheap, I bought $130CDN of parts and
- can't use them, ya cheap), but not supported by anyone now.
-
- BUT, if you do come out with a PCB for it, drop a line... A BIG LINE!
-
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