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Hi,
I am familiar with the arduino and the arduino IDE and with this in mind someone recently gave me  this development board.

I am wondering how to begin and if anyone can point me to a link that explains the basics of using this board.

My first question is would I need to have a 9 pin serial socket on my computer to connect this board?

This site says there are several devices and this forum provides the link to obtain it, would this be the best IDE to start?

thanks,
Bob

Hi,
That board is very old and I do not think there is much information about it. It was originally sold with a book for Ethernet development but was way too expensive.
There are a few questions.
Are you intending to learn Positron for it.
I do not think the board had ICSP(in circuit serial programming) so you would need a bootloader to program via the 9 pin serial cable.
You would also need a programmer to install the bootloader to the device.

Personally if you are looking at learning Positron I would recommend one of these boards (probably the Amicus https://easy-driver.co.uk/products/
The software we use is Positron, details are here https://sites.google.com/view/rosetta-tech/home/how-to-purchase-the-positron-compilers
But you would still need a programmer to get started.

Regards,
Bob

Welcome to this forum.
I think this is waste of time. It is old and much better stuff available. The PIC is so old that the old guys on this group who once knew everything about it have forgot it now. Proton/Positron has evolved in the time since then and I recomend that you try it out on something more modern.

By more modern I mean something like this : https://easy-driver.co.uk/amicus/