Date   : Mon, 05 Jan 2015 14:38:29 +0000
From   : nicolagiacobbe@... (nicola giacobbe)
Subject: Serial console active at power-on

Well, the truth is that I would like to control the beeb from remote (including
the printer port) so that the printer port missing is not really an option.

About the keyboard suggestion (i.e. to remove it) and the technical insight 
that followed, my original idea was to have an FPGA to simulate the keyboard,
so that the beeb could see a 'keyboard' that at power-up could send the FX
commands needed to activate the serial console.
This, joined to a custom keyboardless case could make a very useful testing
tool...

I started studying the black art of ROM making but the recent messaged led
me to the conclusion that a keyboard simulator could be a better choice,
what do our experts suggests?


> From: jumbos.bazzar@...
> To: bbc-micro@...
> Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2015 21:54:42 +0000
> Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] Serial console active at power-on
> 
> If your application doesn't need the sound, speech, keyboard or printer 
> port, then you can boot the board without the system VIA in place. You'd 
> then "need" something bootable, IE a ROM to tell it what to do.
> 
> Mark.
> 
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