RS232 in Titan

[David Halliday (Volt Computer)]

SCSI Please!!!  <grin>

The Macs already have it and you can get a cheap PC SCSI card for about
$50.

Mondo bandwidth, expandable, you can chain devices, there are support
chips out there...

Good stuff

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Paul Schreiber [SMTP:synth1 at airmail.net]
> Sent:	Wednesday, April 23, 1997 2:23 PM
> To:	Steve J. Cowan; 'DAC Crowell'
> Cc:	analogue at hyperreal.com
> Subject:	RS232 in Titan
> 
> Trivia: How was the MIDI data rate selected?
> 
> Answer: It was the fastest baud rate an Intel 8751 with a 12Mhz
> crystal could go!!
> 
> Most PCs today can do 115.2KB all day long, which is 4X MIDI speeds.
> And I don't
> plan IN/OUT/THRU stuff, although somebody else probably will.
> 
> Is the Apple serial port really RS-422 (which is a differential
> Rs-232)?? Hmmm......
> 
> Maybe we could us RS-485, which is a multi-drop RS-422.
> 
> Paul Schreiber
> 
> 
> ----------
> From: 	DAC Crowell[SMTP:dacc at soltec.net]
> Sent: 	Thursday, April 24, 1997 1:39 AM
> To: 	Steve J. Cowan
> Cc: 	analogue at hyperreal.com
> Subject: 	Re: Now it's "Moog-in-a-Box"
> 
> At 22:00 23/4/1997 -0400, Steve J. Cowan wrote:
> >
> >This brings up a curious question, though (and I'm no expert):
> RS-232
> >is simply a serial data connection.  MIDI is also a simple serial
> data
> >connection, with a little extra protocol attached to it.  Would it
> not
> >be more practical to do this with MIDI?
> 
> No, because I think Paul's idea here is to provide a software
> interface
> that replaces the front panel and all of its patch routings. For that,
> you
> need something more robust than bottleneck-able MIDI.
> Remember...what's
> being talked-to here is that whole entire angled cabinet that we all
> know
> and drool over from the Moog pictures of yore, jammed into a single
> little
> data-addressed box. Data communication to such a thing is going to be
> a
> real hair-puller unless the communications bus is pretty hefty.
> 
> 
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