Taken: AT 286 motherboard with mathco

[Alexandre Souza]

> It is a lot easier to connect you hamster wheel/ relay-to-control-lights/
> homebrew circuit to an 8-bit parallel port than to a serial port (or
> worse a USB port). Yes I know there are microcontrollers with built-in
> serial ports, USH interfaces, and whatever. But the thought of having to
> write the firmware for the microcontroller, get it debugged, etc, puts
> people off. COnnecting a couple of resistors and a transistor together is
> an easier introduction to hardware hacking.

    How to use serial port with bascom:

$crystal 8000000
$baud 9600

main:
Print "Hi Tony, this is an example of using a serial port"
goto main

    How to use USB port with bascom and a FT232 module/chip

$crystal 8000000
$baud 9600

main:
Print "Hi Tony, this is an example of using a serial port"
goto main

    There is no spoon :o)