• Retro Computing

    PC6502 + Transputer

    So, yeah, I have a thing for transputers, don’t ask me why, I don’t know. I’ve always been fascinated…. Anyway, I finally managed to get some reliable and repeatable comms between my 6502 tower and a T425 TRAM. Here you can see the data going out, and coming back in! In this case writing 0xEFBEADDE to address 0x80000000 (T425 internal RAM). Now this was supposed to be 0xDEADBEEF, but of course, the transputer is little endian.Anyway, output from BASIC program is below; I’ve tried this with the 4 TRAMs (Transputer Modules) I have and they all work!.Here is the tower with the link adapter and a single TRAM on top.…