Mainframe emulation and serial comms (was Re: "Toy computers)

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Thu May 2 14:25:57 2002

On Thu, 2 May 2002, Cameron Kaiser wrote:

> > > > There are/were apparently a number of Apple LocalTalk cards made
> > > > for PC usage. One of them is the PC MacBridge by Tangent Technologies -
> > > > now defunct - which is a short 8-bit card based on the Zilog Z8530APC
> > > > chip. A google search will disclose multiple others also.
>
> > > I have a native Apple LocalTalk ISA card manufactured by Apple. It does an
> > > excellent job and the PC communicates seamlessly with the Macs in the
> > > apartment.
>
> > Since the thrust of this topic is find a board that can be used
> > to do IBM BISYNC communication, would you happen to know what
> > chipset is used by the board? It would be hard to use it if
> > no one knows how to write software for it...
>
> It is also based on the Z8530, with a Rockwell R65C02 CPU on-board.

The Tangent Tech board carries only the Z8530, a single crystal, and
glue chips.
                                                 - don

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