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| From | Syd Rumpo <usenet@nononono.co.uk> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.forth |
| Subject | Re: Novix NB4300 |
| Date | 2014-11-04 14:30 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <m3antc$5bl$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <69271012-da0b-49b8-acd5-d150f3b53f67@googlegroups.com> |
On 04/11/2014 04:39, dougatdoughq@gmail.com wrote: > Hi, > > I went mad, and clicked the 'buy it now' button on ePay, and have a Novix NB4300 STD board being sent to me :-) Ok - Not *that* mad, but just a little crazy. > > In the late 80's, I worked at the Australian National University here in Canberra, Australia, where I helped work on a Novix Beta Board - And it was amazingly fast. Blindingly fast. So much so, that I copied the doco and the distribution media. > > So - I have here the printouts of the Novix NC4000P Supplement, which documents the Beta Board, and some 40 track floppies - The job for the next couple of nights, is to grab the data off the floppies. > > I am writing to the list, to see if anybody has doco for the STD bus board, the NB4300, or if I will be reverse engineering it. From the photos, I see that it has serial on board, as well as the ram for the stack, the return stack, and the data ram, as well as a couple of narrow ePROMS. I can't figure out how serial was implemented from the photo, but there is enough programmable logic that they *might* have implemented a SIO in a gate array because they were out of board real estate, but that's not likely. > > What stuns me is that it looks like there there is *nothing* on the web about the board - almost a complete vaccuum - which is weird. > > Anyway - hopefully somebody else here can help. > > Doug > I have copies of the three 'Electronics and Wireless World' Novix articles from early 1987, one of which describes the NX4 board which was available from Computer Solutions. It's not an STD board, but if they're of any use, I could scan them. Cheers -- Syd
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Novix NB4300 dougatdoughq@gmail.com - 2014-11-03 20:39 -0800
Novix NB4300 Mark Wills <markwills1970@gmail.com> - 2014-11-03 23:07 -0800
Re: Novix NB4300 Paul E Bennett <Paul_E.Bennett@topmail.co.uk> - 2014-11-04 09:17 +0000
Re: Novix NB4300 albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2014-11-07 15:12 +0000
Re: Novix NB4300 JUERGEN <epldfpga@aol.com> - 2014-11-15 01:32 -0800
Re: Novix NB4300 anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-11-04 12:30 +0000
Re: Novix NB4300 Paul E Bennett <Paul_E.Bennett@topmail.co.uk> - 2014-11-04 13:23 +0000
Re: Novix NB4300 anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl) - 2014-11-04 13:40 +0000
Novix NB4300 dwarman@davidwarman.net - 2014-11-04 05:52 -0800
Re: Novix NB4300 Syd Rumpo <usenet@nononono.co.uk> - 2014-11-04 14:30 +0000
Re: Novix NB4300 Syd Rumpo <usenet@nononono.co.uk> - 2014-11-04 16:19 +0000
Re: Novix NB4300 albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2014-11-04 16:21 +0000
Re: Novix NB4300 JUERGEN <epldfpga@aol.com> - 2014-11-07 06:08 -0800
Re: Novix NB4300 Jan Coombs <Jan-54 <jenfhaomndgfwutc@murmic.plus.com>> - 2014-11-18 16:39 +0000
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