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-The Commodore is a home computer from the 1980s. It has a number of interfaces which can be used to interface with the outside world which include a serial UART, 8-bit parallel port, cassette port and CBM IEC serial bus.+The Commodore plus/4 is a home computer from the 1980s and typical with other computers of that era comes with a built-in keyboard and was designed to connect to a television set.
  
 +The +4 has a number of built in I/O interfaces. These  include a serial UART, 8-bit parallel port, cassette port and a CBM IEC serial bus.
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 +The video output can drive composite video inputs on TVs or, for example, a Hauppauge HVR900H (2040:6600) capture board in Linux (see photo). This set up has low latency and is very usable in Linux, but this may not be the case elsewhere.
 === Pinout === === Pinout ===
  
 == User port == == User port ==
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 + 1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10  11  12
 +GND 5V  RES *P2 P3  P4  P5  RxC ATN  9V  9V GND
 +
 +GND P0  RxD RTS DTR P7  DCD P6  P1  DSR TxD GND
 + A   B   C   D   E   F   H   J   K   L   M   N
 +
 +*CST SENSE
 </code> </code>
  
 +=== Memory map ===
 +
 +^Address ^Device ^Function |
 +|$FD10   |MOS 6529B  | User port P0..P7 |
 +
 +=== Resources ===
 +
 +[[https://wiki.kewl.org/downloads/TED_7360R0_Preliminary_Data_Sheet.pdf|TED data sheet]]
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 +[[https://wiki.kewl.org/downloads/TED_System_Hardware_Manual.pdf|Hardware manual]]