[Coco] Dual UART with FIFO Card for the CoCo

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 14 June 2010, sales at gimechip.com wrote:
>I'll have to check with Dad on the internal IRQ* mod, but I think it
>involved passing the IRQ* from the cart* straight to the CPU with some
> diode logic, bypassing the GIME. Now that I type that out, maybe that's
> not a good thing? I'll check with dad.
>
Hmm, I wonder if that was fixed that by fixing the gime programming in the 
clock modules for OS9?   See the blobstop archives if you haven't yet.  
Clocks edition 9 and above should have that fix in them.

>I've finished a layout of a 1mx16 upgrade for the DE-1 but I've gotta turn
>the "right-angle" tracks into not right angles :-) Still got to add the
>additional PS/2 port and a bit of other extras. It's taking a bit longer
> due to all hand routing (no auto-route) on this thing
>
;-)  and just when you thought you were done.  Chuckle.

>John
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Gene Heskett" <gene.heskett at gmail.com>
>To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>Sent: Monday, June 14, 2010 6:43 AM
>Subject: Re: [Coco] Dual UART with FIFO Card for the CoCo
>
>> On Monday 14 June 2010, sales at gimechip.com wrote:
>>>I'm 21. My dad is 42. He taught me all I know.
>>>
>>>I have a heart condition (both of my parents have heart disease so I
>>> guess I was genetically doomed before I was conceived.)
>>>
>>>It's actually manageable as long as I remember to take all these darned
>>>pills everyday. At one point, I awoke to find both of my feet had turned
>>>bluish-purple and had no feeling, but luckily circulation returned
>>> before permanent damage. They were afraid that some of the nerves in my
>>> feet had been damaged because I couldn't feel my feet for almost a
>>> month. They subjected me initially to a test where they applied
>>> electrical current to the surface of my legs. When I was unable to feel
>>> that, they scheduled me to see a specialist who attached electrodes to
>>> my legs and then started sticking needles into my legs starting with my
>>> feet. I couldn't feel any of it until they got to just below my knees
>>> at which point I yelled. They told me that I likely had nerve damage
>>> and that nerves could not regenerate so it would be permanent.
>>> Fortunatly, about a month later, I began feeling my big toe of my left
>>> foot. Slowly, all feeling returned to both feet, so there was no nerve
>>> damage (well, maybe a little but not much). This was before they
>>> diagnosed a heart problem - in fact they could find no reason for it.
>>> Eventually, my blood pressure rose so high (staying between 176 and 200
>>> over 100 to 110) that they began looking harder. It took them 3 years
>>> to get everything under control. I still sometimes wake up gasping for
>>> breath and it really scares me, but it doesn't happen as often as it
>>> used to.
>>>
>>>I posted a little about this on CoCo3.com, but I didn't include all the
>>>details. I mainly posted it because my memory is sometimes affected and
>>> I wanted people to understand if I forgot something, or if I repeated
>>> myself needlessly - it's because sometimes I just can't remember...
>>>
>>>Recently, my Mom was diagnosed with breast cancer on top of everything
>>> else. They removed the tumor and she is going through chemo now, which
>>> really compounds my situation.
>>>
>>>So you folks can see, I really needed something to keep my mind
>>> occupied. CoCo3.com and this list have given that to me. I can design
>>> stuff for people and post it on CoCo3.com which is cool because if I
>>> should experience a sudden "decline" - at least you guys will remember
>>> some little part of me
>>>
>>>:-) I know that's gloomy, but when it comes down to it, we're all
>>>: mortal, so
>>>
>>>I've just accepted it and do the best I can - and I smile at least once
>>>everyday because I just won't give up and neither will my mom :-)
>>
>> Yikes, that is quite a load, and thanks for sharing.
>>
>> I OTOH, am already older than my mother and maternal grandfather, both
>> of whom cancer took, and my two daughters have already passed from it 
>> And of coarse with a creeping PSA, plus type 2 diabetes, I am well aware
>> that any warranty I may have had has long since expired.  There is
>> already some nerve
>> damage in my feet from the sugar, but nothing like yours.
>>
>>>CRAP - I WENT ON A BIT OF A RANT THERE DIDN'T I?
>>>
>>>Anyway, all of my CoCo knowledge has been gained in the last three
>>> years. My dad had told me about the IRQ mod to the MPI and an
>>> additional internal CoCo3 IRQ mod that goes with it, but I had
>>> forgotten (my memory woes...), but your email triggered the memory
>>> which is cool.
>>
>> I don't believe I have done anything in that area to my main machine,
>> can you elaborate?
>>
>>>Well Gene, I've probably bored the crap outta you, so I'll end this lil'
>>>rant of mine and get back to work on the CoCo projects. It gives me much
>>>enjoyment to create this stuff to share with everybody.  --John
>>
>> I am hard to bore.  Thank you, John.
>>
>> [...]
>>
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