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[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 24 December 2003 12:51, peak at mail.polarcomm.com wrote:
>Mike
>I dont know anything about MIDI except that its Musical
>Instrument Digital Interface right??
>About ACIA's though,I could interface those.
>What particular ACIA? Is it a "6526"?

Usually they use a 6551 for that.  However, I'd look for a later 
version I think, unless flow controls aren't a high priority.  The 
6551 stops in its tracks, in mid-byte when cts goes down.  There's a 
hardware cut and paste fix for that for the rs-232 packs.  I think I 
found it on John Kowalski's site.

>LSI I/O chips are fairly easy to interface to a computer
>because they were made for it. If you will give be a better
>idea of what ports, and how many, I will design for you
>a "custom" interface board.
>
>Eric

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