[Coco] Drivewire

[L. Curtis Boyle]

Concerning a 4 port RS232 pack.. yes, Alpha Software TEchnologies (Keith Alphonso's company) sold the Comm4. We used it at work (along with a Frank Hogg Eliminator, and home made 2 port serial board) for a total of 8 serial ports.

L. Curtis Boyle
curtisboyle at sasktel.net



On Mar 28, 2013, at 11:47 AM, Allen Huffman wrote:

> On Mar 28, 2013, at 12:45 PM, Bill Gunshannon <billg999 at cs.uofs.edu> wrote:
> 
>> Drivewire runs over the Bit Banger, right?  Just how painfully
>> slow is it?
> 
> Faster than the RS232 pack. :)
> 
>> And, to ask once again as I think this question got missed
>> earlier.  Has anyone come with a hack that allows more than
>> one RS232 Pack to be used?
> 
> Most certainly. Many of us who ran OS-9 BBSes had multiple serial ports. It just involves making a slight mod to alter where it mapped in the CoCo memory map. There was even a hardware mod that could add a second port to the same pack.
> 
> And someone made a 4-port RS232 pak, didn't they?
> 
> 		-- Allen
> 
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