Re: Substituting IBM for 9010 base...

it's something I had considered, but without the z80 emulator bit.

In theory, if the data exchange twixt fluke and pod is know, the entire main
end can be replaced with a program at the PC end, and a printer port or USB
interface. The data exchanges are strange, but should be possible to decode
(error trapping is the pain!), but it is something I have as a low priority
project.

as for the probe - thats phase 2 (or 3), getting the normal operations going
with extra options to easily read roms / and CRC algorithm you fancy, test
an entire PCB and report all problems in single pass .... place your
requests here!

The project has been on hold waiting to borrow an otherwise useless pod to
test the interfacing, I don;t want to put my z80 or 68000 pods at risk! (so
something that works as a pod, but has no likely uses for repairing things
nowadays, the test culprit was going to be a cda1820 (or something similar))

----- Original Message -----

> Here's a winter project, can anyone think of a reason why you CAN'T wire
up
> an adapter that would allow you to connect the pods to an IBM compatible
> computer and run them directly using a Z80 emulator? Seems to me that
one's
> speed might go up a bit, plus no need to fix the tape drive...the old AT
> bus to the rescue? Or the newer bus...?

> Anyone game to look into this further? I can see a few items that need a
> bit of massaging, there is the PROBE circuitry after all, and the
signature
> part of the probe, but the rest of the base is a fairly straight forward
> Z80A computer...and the 80XXX's are descendants...

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Received on Mon Feb 11 16:02:52 2002