Northstar CPU Card in Regular S100 Bus?

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Sun Dec 12 19:40:13 1999

That should certainly be the case with the N* CPU I recently gave to one of
the list participants. It had no hardware on board which would prevent it
from working with pretty much any other S-100 hardware, aside from the usual
risk, since there were no real standards, even after the adoption of the
IEEE P696 standard. With more signals than were needed, it was always
possible another maker's card might expect different combinations of signals
to do the same job.

Dick

-----Original Message-----
From: Anthony Clifton - KC0CUE <wirehead_at_retrocomputing.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Sunday, December 12, 1999 3:00 PM
Subject: Northstar CPU Card in Regular S100 Bus?


>
>I have a weird question. Could a Northstar MPU-A be used in a normal S100
bus
>chassis with other cards to provide console, disk, i/o, memory functions?
>
>If no, why not?
>
>If yes, what issues can arise from doing this?
>
>The reason I ask is that I have a nice clean empty TEI chassis, a Northstar
CPU
>cards, some memory boards, an SMB multifunction i/o card and a Disk Jockey
>2D. I'm sure the thing would end up being fairly weird, but I don't care
>about
>that.
>
>Just exploring ideas for misc hardware sitting around my basement.
>
>Anthony Clifton
>
>
Received on Sun Dec 12 1999 - 19:40:13 GMT