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ECB-to-S100 bridge board [message #7755]

Fri, 05 June 2020 05:55

rcini
Messages: 64
Registered: October 2015
Location: Long Island, NY

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Out of curiosity, has anyone built or know of an ECB-to-S100 bridge board? I really like the VGA3 I have and I thought it would be a good project for adding it to my S100 8086 system to get off of a straight terminal. I know there are ISA-to-S100 bridge boards (the S100Computers group, of which I also belong), but I've never seen and ECB one.

Any thoughts on the ability to do that? I might pull the docs on the ISA-S100 board to see what glue might be needed.

Thanks!
Rich

Rich Cini

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Re: ECB-to-S100 bridge board [message #7760 is a reply to message #7755]

Sun, 07 June 2020 03:36

jordi.solis
Messages: 119
Registered: March 2017

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in the old retrobrew files is there a project to get a mixed motherboard, but no one ended it.
I wonder how full signaling for multiprocesor on S-100 will fit with ECB cpu boards but maybe the rest of signals could be quite similar.
additionally, S100 has two 8-bit data bus joined to be a bi-directional 16-bit one, so, if your vga card is 16-bit, you will get this easier.
My suggestion is you can compare the ecb Propio board's schematic with the s100 propeller console one, I think they would be the most similar port.

J S.

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Re: ECB-to-S100 bridge board [message #7775 is a reply to message #7760]

Wed, 10 June 2020 09:56

suk
Messages: 9
Registered: May 2020

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I can't direct,y reply to your question but as I have an interest in isa to ecb (ecb backplane and cpu but with a isa card added) I thought I'd drop in. Do you have a link to the isa-s100 design please?

Is there any isa-ecb adapters beyond the unfinished mixed motherboard project?

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Re: ECB-to-S100 bridge board [message #7840 is a reply to message #7775]

Mon, 29 June 2020 21:05

monahan
Messages: 25
Registered: November 2015

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ISA<->S100. see here

http://s100computers.com/My%20System%20Pages/ISA%20to%20S100 %20Bus/ISA%20To%20S-100%20Bus%20Board.htm

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