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From: sweeney@dionheinz.uchicago.edu (Jeff Sweeney)
Subject: Re: Review of BOTBoard (68HC11 board)
In-Reply-To: <2jq56q$3ra@scratchy.reed.edu>
Message-ID: <1994Feb15.144159.22927@midway.uchicago.edu>
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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 1994 14:41:59 GMT
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In article <2jq56q$3ra@scratchy.reed.edu> you write:
>Review of the BOTBoard
>review by P. Douglas Reeder
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>     Construction of the board is straightforward, and should present
>no unusual challenges to anyone who can solder.  Assembling the
>programming serial cable is a bit tricky, though.  The HC11's serial
>port puts out 5V signals, and RS232 is about 12V, so you need a level
>converter.  The MAX233 (now available for about $6.60, not the $10-$15
>noted in the docs) does a great job of this...

Can a Macintosh (RS422) talk to this serial port without a voltage
converter?

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>     MS-DOS users have many options in programming this
>beastie; PCBUG11 is a good program to get started with and
>is available at most HC11 archives.  There are many other
>development programs available for MS-DOS, commercial,
>shareware, and free.  Mac users have more limited options...

Could you develop on a PC and download from a Mac? Just curious.
-- 

Jeff                                     sweeney@dionheinz.uchicago.edu
