[vcf-midatlantic] iUEC Drive on a B128!

william degnan billdegnan at gmail.com
Sun Mar 6 14:46:36 EST 2016


I meant no one used the Fast Bus with a UIEC before, Machau's method is a
little different.  But it's not important.  I need to replicate this fast
bus thingy.

Bill Degnan
twitter: billdeg
vintagecomputer.net
On Mar 6, 2016 9:58 AM, "Rob Clarke via vcf-midatlantic" <
vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:

> I used a UIEC with Michau's kernel extensions and the IEC to cassette port
> adapter that came with Superscript and it seems pretty reliable. Michau is
> still active on cbm-hackers and is easy to get hold of.
>
> Rob
>
> On 5 March 2016 23:31:42 GMT+00:00, william degnan via vcf-midatlantic <
> vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> The iUEC is for serial devices, so I had to use a serial to IEEE
> >> conversion setup.  I will document it online when I have the chance.
> >This
> >> is part of a project I am working on for VCF E...Just makes my life a
> >heck
> >> of a lot easier because I can work on the modern PC to write code and
> >copy
> >> to B series using an SD card,   So much more efficient.  And I
> >believe
> >> using the iUEC with a B Series computer has never been done before.
> >> b
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >There was talk in 2011 about using the iUEC but I don't think anyone
> >had
> >all of the pieces in one place, or in my case I had the hardware but
> >did
> >not actually need to make the connection until now.  For more info on
> >IEEE
> >drive interfacing with the uIEC see Steve Gray's page about
> >http://www.6502.org/users/sjgray/computer/cbm2/.
> ><http://www.6502.org/users/sjgray/computer/cbm2/> Unfortunately the
> >link he
> >provides to Michau's CBM-II.COM site is dead; supposedly Michau was
> >able to
> >get the uIEC to work, or something like it.
> >
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