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Re: What is a SchoolBus card?

Subject: Re: What is a SchoolBus card?
From: Alex Freed <alexf@mirrow.com>
Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 12:29:56 -0800
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Linards Ticmanis wrote:

Very likely so: the 8530 "SCC" chip is the same one as used forAppletalk. So this MIGHT inter-network with Mac computers.
...but of course dating from 1983 it seems certain that it wasn'tdesigned with Macs in mind.

Never said it was. It is a universal dual USART designed by Zilog. TheLocaltalk protocol was pretty much designed around this chip using its

synchronous mode. AFAIK every product that needed to speak Localtalk,
like printers used the same chip or its derivative.

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- What is a SchoolBus card?
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- Re: What is a SchoolBus card?
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- Re: What is a SchoolBus card?
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