On Sun, 16 Feb 1997, Henrik Lewander wrote:

> I'm looking for information about the MIDI-standard. Anybody seen it
> on the net?

I found a very nicely done "INF" version of the standard, though I no
longer know where.  ("INF" is the OS/2 format used for useful help files
and documentation, as opposed to the "Book reader" format which is useful
only as a boat anchor.  I think I've heard of a Windows-hosted INF reader,
but never bothered to dig it up.)  And I have a less wonderful plain text
version - well, I used to have it - that I think came off the net.  Ask
around the web search engines of your choice and you'll probably find it.

> I here have a keyboard with some old soundcreation-ic and want to be
> able to connect it to my PC (MIDI of course). It can't be to hard to
> implement the interface on a 16C84, can it?

Depends on the keyboard.  If you can get at the raw switch closures then
it should be fairly straightforward, and the MIDI data formats for a
simple keyboard are very easy.  Where I would think you might have
problems would be if you wanted to retain the existing hardware to
generate sound independently of the PC.  If it doesn't already have MIDI
out, then there's not likely to be any way to tap into it except by doing
your own keyboard scanning, and for that the existing hardware will be an
interference, I'm afraid.

Luck!