05-02-2021, 01:27 AM
Thanks Ewan for giving me the confidence that the B-ETI would work on a unmodified Mainboard, I decided to drop a BETI PROM into my MB1656 Coreboard in place of the v54 D-Boot ROM and fired it up.
Bingo and operational B-ETI looks like all the extra SRAM is not causing any issues (certainly on the bit of testing I did today)
Would have been great to have the old mechanical Teletype I had back in the eighties and give the BAUDOT a go. Oh well, I'm sure I'm not alone in ruing the throwing out of something that was taking up too much space
So looks like it would be very simple to set up with a 8k EPROM and switch between a normal 56k Disk based system and a B-ETI.
Today I learnt something new, now to update my notes for future just in case I revisit the idea way down the track.
Ernest
Bingo and operational B-ETI looks like all the extra SRAM is not causing any issues (certainly on the bit of testing I did today)
Would have been great to have the old mechanical Teletype I had back in the eighties and give the BAUDOT a go. Oh well, I'm sure I'm not alone in ruing the throwing out of something that was taking up too much space
So looks like it would be very simple to set up with a 8k EPROM and switch between a normal 56k Disk based system and a B-ETI.
Today I learnt something new, now to update my notes for future just in case I revisit the idea way down the track.
Ernest