On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Nicolas Welte wrote: The ROM select lines are not on the expansion connector. > William Levak wrote: > > There used to be an adapter board that would replace 4 6550s with 4 2114s. > > I think it was made by Skyles. Even when the original PET was still in > > use, it was cheaper to buy the adapter and 4 2114s, than replace 2 6550s. > > Today I would use an even simpler approach: Remove all RAMs and ROMs (except > video and character) from the board, and connect a single 32kB SRAM chip and > a single EPROM to the expansion connector. Would eat a lot less power than > the original circuit, but of course it would also look a lot less original. > But it would leave a lot of spare 6550 chips for the video RAM, and only the > character ROM would have to be replaced with an EPROM on an adaptor socket. > Switching between ROM versions would also be very easy. Maybe I'll take this > approach for the dead 2001 board. > > Nicolas > > Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing list > Message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing list
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