simple MIDI?

[Magnus Danielson]

>>>>> "JS" == John Simonton <honcho at paia.com> writes:

 JS> At 09:25 PM 1/20/98 +0100, Magnus Danielson wrote:
 >> 
 >> Even if it is not directly comparable I think that the 6850 is a good
 >> little thing to consider for many projects. Feed it with a 1 MHz clock
 >> and it will happly make an MIDI IN/OUT UART with setting some fix
 >> values once.
 >> 
 JS> Some year ago I posted a schematic of a thing with a 6850 and a couple of
 JS> hex inverters that sent program change status and data. It went to the
 JS> music machine archives at hyperreal but I don't know if it's still there or
 JS> not. The problems is, I haven't seen a 6850 or seen one for sale in a long
 JS> time.

I have one lying around here somewhere for this kind of project, I
usually find it when I look in catalogues.

 >> 
 >> The worst things about CPUs is that they often aid bad programmers in
 >> being just bad programmers... it is allways so easy to fix broken
 >> programs rather than make a deep thougth on how to make them work the
 >> first time instead... ah well...
 >> 
 JS> I beg your pardon :-? C'mon Magnus, you can really imagine all the things
 JS> that can go wrong at the outset of a project? I agree with you about
 JS> patching, of course. It's hard to pull out big chunks of code and throw
 JS> them away, but "old-timers" know that the working code that replaces it
 JS> will probably be a lot tighter. 

 JS> It's about learning and the errors are the teachers.

I knew it would get someone anoyed ;)

If you really knew what I do day-time and what I really think about
these matters you would just have a smile on your face... so sorry
that I confused you.

Cheers,
Magnus