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Old 22nd Apr 2017, 8:11 am   #7
JohnBHanson
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Default Re: ASR33 Teletype nostalga question

I remember someone making a circuit that would pretend to be a paper tape reader based on a uv-eprom and some TTL counters etc at Plessey in Poole. It would start at address 0 of the uv-eprom and just send consecutive data to the computer. This meant that loading the software took a few seconds and not 20 minutes.

I guess in today's technology a micro-controller would be used to do the same thing.

I have implemented a disk emulator based on a serial port before as well as a fileserver based on a serial port. This allowed a PC to be used as a disk server with older technology.

However I still love the old technology - BTW does anyone still program with paper tape and a teletype?
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