Some of you may be aware of my tendency towards vintage Motorola equipment. Well I now have another new odd board to add to the list: Vintage Thompson T08D MC6809EP Motherboard I'm aware that it is just a motherboard and yes I don't know if it works. But I took my chances. While working in the industry I knew about the Thompson computers and have always wanted on. I'm not going to pay $500 + shipping to the US so this is my compromise. I know I need a SCART interface, I think I can connect it to my HDMI TVs. The keyboard is going to have to be a hack (arduino and some chips to a PS/2 keyboard). I'm hoping I can get this working and running. Will be an interesting project machine. PS: The Liebert (MC6803 based HVAC controller)is coming along well. I'm trying The figure out the asm code to take 2 8 bit values (parallel) and merge each on to it's respective bit on Address 0x8000 (Bit 8 -> Serial 1, B7 - Serial 2, bit 6 -> Serial 3, remaining bits are unconfirmed as of yet.) Even disassembly of the original code is bit (pun!) convoluted. -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry kd2zrq@linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies KD2ZRQ
On 3/26/2023 6:51 PM, Neil Cherry via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Vintage Thompson T08D MC6809EP Motherboard
I'm aware that it is just a motherboard and yes I don't know if it works. But I took my chances. While working in the industry I knew about the Thompson computers and have always wanted on. I'm not going to pay $500 + shipping to the US so this is my compromise. I know I need a SCART interface, I think I can connect it to my HDMI TVs.
Danger Will Robinson! Many really crappy converters and cables that really don't work well If you are heck bent on this, this is the unit I bought to connect a SCART only Videodisc player after my SCART enabled television died: https://solarisjapan.com/collections/micomsoft/products/xrgb-mini-framemeist...
congrats, that's very cool. Would like to see pictures when you can. On Sun, Mar 26, 2023, 6:52 PM Neil Cherry via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Some of you may be aware of my tendency towards vintage Motorola equipment. Well I now have another new odd board to add to the list:
Vintage Thompson T08D MC6809EP Motherboard
I'm aware that it is just a motherboard and yes I don't know if it works. But I took my chances. While working in the industry I knew about the Thompson computers and have always wanted on. I'm not going to pay $500 + shipping to the US so this is my compromise. I know I need a SCART interface, I think I can connect it to my HDMI TVs. The keyboard is going to have to be a hack (arduino and some chips to a PS/2 keyboard). I'm hoping I can get this working and running. Will be an interesting project machine.
PS: The Liebert (MC6803 based HVAC controller)is coming along well. I'm trying The figure out the asm code to take 2 8 bit values (parallel) and merge each on to it's respective bit on Address 0x8000 (Bit 8 -> Serial 1, B7 - Serial 2, bit 6 -> Serial 3, remaining bits are unconfirmed as of yet.) Even disassembly of the original code is bit (pun!) convoluted.
-- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry kd2zrq@linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies KD2ZRQ
On 3/26/23 20:50, Christian Liendo wrote:
congrats, that's very cool. Would like to see pictures when you can.
I will. I'm expecting it Thursday or Friday. Someone on Facebook shared this link: http://dcmoto.free.fr/index.html I may need to relearn French. ;-) -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry kd2zrq@linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies KD2ZRQ
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