Date   : Sun, 04 Jan 2015 12:00:52 +0000
From   : nicolagiacobbe@... (nicola giacobbe)
Subject: Serial console active at power on?

Thanks for the suggestion but the system will work as an embedded controller, 
hence no filing system and I am not starting using an SD card for this. In
the end I am just after a docile slave to move some bits around at +5V, now
I have only to find the article: "build your own beeb ROM in ten minutes".

> Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2015 11:21:56 +0000
> From: bbcmicro@...
> To: bbc-micro@...
> Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] USB to serial adapters and the BBC Micro
> 
> >
> > You could write a ROM that would do the switching commands after the OS has
> > powered up? Is there a Model B version of the Terminal program in the Master
> > OS? Doesn't this do the same thing if initialised before BASIC?
> >
> 
> I think a ROM is probably the best solution but a slightly easier but less
> elegant solution might be to fit the appropriate keyboard link that reverses
> the action of shift-break.  Assuming an appropriate filing system is present,
> !boot would then be executed at power up and this could issue the required *
> commands.
> 
> Even less elegant than fitting the keyboard link, leave a weight resting on
> the shift key :-)
> 
> >
> > I am sorry if this question comes out a little OT but I couldn't think of a
> > better place to pose it.
> > Is there some way to automatically have the beeb using the serial port as
> > console at power-up?
> > I would like to control the beeb from remote but someone must send the
> > switching FX commands, I have reached the point where thinking of designing
> > a keyboard simulator or to control the machine via 1MHz bus seem a rational
> > choice...
> >
> 
> I can't see this as being in any way off topic for this list.
> 
> Regards,
> Peter Coghlan.
> 
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