Re: //c vs //c+

[david@uow.edu.au (David Wilson)]

Charles Stephens <devnull@dobbs.eng.sun.com> writes:
>>>>>> "MF" == Mike Ford <mikeford@netwiz.net> writes:
> MF> Someone told me once it was possible to "trick" the serial port on a IIc+
> MF> into running localtalk, but I wasn't interested at the time.

>There was firmware in UniDisk IIc, but didn't do anything since, it
>too, had the same ASIC.

For ASIC read ACIA (Asynchronous Communications Interface Adapter not
Application Specific Integrated Circuit [like the MMU & IOU chips]).

The firmware in one version of the //c was to allow an external box with
a Zilog SIO chip in it to be interfaced to the //c serial port. This box
never eventuated.
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David Wilson  School of IT & CS, Uni of Wollongong, Australia  david@uow.edu.au