Logic Analyser With Atari St

28 LOGIC ANALYSER WITH ATARI ST H.J. Schulz Because of its competitive price, excellent display and the availability of a wide range of software packages, the Atari ST series of home micros has enjoyed a long-standing popularity with a large group of computer users, and has held its own in spite of the influx of IBM PCs and compatibles. The present logic analyser illustrates the capabilities of the Atari ST series for applications other than the most familiar ones, desk-top publishing (DTP) and computer music. The logic together with the function generator, multimeter and the oscilloscope, is an es- sential piece of test gear in an electronics workshop or laboratory. Although a logic analyser is really in- dispensable for testing and repairing a wide variety of digital circuits, it is often sadly lacking from the home experimenter"s test equipment shelf because of its high cost. The hardware and soft- ware described in this ar- ticle, however, form an affordable test instrument th...