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Crystal frequency for monochrome video signal?
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Crystal frequency for monochrome video signal?
On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 21:19:15 -0500, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote: wrote: On Tue, 12 Feb 2013 23:55:12 -0500, "Michael A. Terrell" wrote: Mark Zenier wrote: In article , Michael A. Terrell wrote: Now tell everyone how you designed dozens of commercial products with the 8275. (Which was designed for 8085 based systems.) I don't recall ever seeing one in any hardware. The 6545/6845 and the 5027 CRTC were what I've seen. The Intel MDS blue box system used it, if someone wants a design example. Was that their 8085 development system with the 8" disk drive? Diskette? Sloppy disk. The drive in mine was bad, That would be a diskette. We had a pile of the MDS systems(mostly x86) around work, networked together over one of their servers. All of them went in the trash heap a quarter century ago. They worked but they were *SLOW*. |
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Crystal frequency for monochrome video signal?
Mark Zenier wrote: In article , Michael A. Terrell wrote: Mark Zenier wrote: In article , Michael A. Terrell wrote: Now tell everyone how you designed dozens of commercial products with the 8275. (Which was designed for 8085 based systems.) I don't recall ever seeing one in any hardware. The 6545/6845 and the 5027 CRTC were what I've seen. The Intel MDS blue box system used it, if someone wants a design example. Was that their 8085 development system with the 8" disk drive? Yes. (Overdesigned slug). There were enough of them around that somebody probably has scanned the schematic and posted it on on of the document archives. It's one of the few things I don't miss from the rental warehouse I lost when I got sick, and couldn't work for two years. Yea, there are reasons that nobody used the 8275 much. I lucky to find a 1984 databook with its datasheet on the top of my pile of boxes of databooks. I have a databook with it as well. It looks like you were to buy their development kit to learn to program all the registers. It's no wonder that it wasn't popular. Yuck. It was one of many Intel peripheral chips from the late '70s that took the wrong road. It is a programmable video counter chain (like the 6845, the one used on the IBM video cards), but instead of outputting all the address bits to feed an external memory, it had two internal 80 character display buffers that were loaded by program or DMA. (So the driver had to babysit it, making sure it got a new line of text every milisecond or so). In operation, it only output the data byte, the row counter, and some attribute bits to feed the character font ROM. (Using it for graphics, at one display line per row of data would either have saturated the micro's databus, or isn't even be possible). It only works at the level of characters, the video serializer and dot-per-character counters were external TTL. It only ran at 2 or 3 MHz. It was covered in the CRT Controller Handbook, but I misplaced my copy long ago. |
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On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:15:11 -0500, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote: wrote: On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 21:19:15 -0500, "Michael A. Terrell" wrote: wrote: On Tue, 12 Feb 2013 23:55:12 -0500, "Michael A. Terrell" wrote: Mark Zenier wrote: In article , Michael A. Terrell wrote: Now tell everyone how you designed dozens of commercial products with the 8275. (Which was designed for 8085 based systems.) I don't recall ever seeing one in any hardware. The 6545/6845 and the 5027 CRTC were what I've seen. The Intel MDS blue box system used it, if someone wants a design example. Was that their 8085 development system with the 8" disk drive? Diskette? Sloppy disk. The drive in mine was bad, That would be a diskette. We had a pile of the MDS systems(mostly x86) around work, networked together over one of their servers. All of them went in the trash heap a quarter century ago. They worked but they were *SLOW*. Well, the old guy that read the bits to & from the 1 MHz processer WAS old. ;-) I am still amazed that Vital Industries was able to do real time NTSC color video effects with a 2 MHz Z80B and meet FCC requirements for broadcast. It wasn't so much that the processor was slow but Intel couldn't code their way out of a paper bag. M$ took lessons from them. ;-) |
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