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Prototype of our tester data bus interface. This was a neat idea that did work- instead of designing our own card to plug into the PDP-11 computer, we bought a 4 X 16 parallel interface. Done.

Jim Flynn was responsible for the interface. It latched the data and address bits for the tester interface, with read and write logic implemented in a state machine. The state machine was driven by a local clock and a ROM. Best estimate and one step each way were in the ROM, jumper selected. The ROM output controlled our bus direction, latched data in and out of the PDP-11 interfaces, ran write and read strobes on our bus.

The ROM clocked at 10Mhz, extra fine resolution for the 1 MHz data rate in and out of the tester and the PDP-11.

Another group did a PDP-11 interface with a proprietary card in the PDP-11, but I believe the architecture Jim and I implemented was used in later days.
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Author Bill Abbott

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