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gloriouscow on Nostr: What's on this thing? First we have four 74HC245's. These are octal bus transceivers. ...

What's on this thing? First we have four 74HC245's. These are octal bus transceivers. Not sure what we need those for if we're raw-dogging the CPU but they can't really hurt to have.

The schematic shows that two of them buffer the address lines, one buffers the data bus, and the other buffers some miscellaneous signals like reset, intr and sync. Oh, and a LED. We're gonna blink the shit out of that.