[Coco] WiFi modem.

[Mark D. Overholser]

On 19-Jan-18 06:57, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Friday 19 January 2018 08:35:36 Allen Huffman wrote:
> 
>> On Jan 19, 2018, at 12:29 AM, Steve Pedersen
>> <666jacktheknife666 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> a rs 232 card has been recently created but never released retro
>>> innovations made a prototype the cocolink 232.
>>> Do a search on Facebook and you can see a picture of it I can't
>>> figure out how to paste a link on my cell phone to the list.
>>> Maybe we could prepay the board run upfront cost so that these could
>>> get built in some kind of group buy effort.
>>
>> If we have a Pak that just had the TTL connector inside, you could
>> plug up a Bluetooth module, or the WiFi module, or a TTL to USB (so
>> you wold go from PC USB port to CoCo), or...
>>
>> But, it would be better to make something that looks like the 6551 but
>> has a buffer and such.
> 
> I am not in favor of a 6551 unless its a new clone with  hardware flow
> control fixed. Something the 6551 from NOS can't do.
> 
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
> 


Western Design Center ( WDC ) still makes the 6551s with all the Fixes 
in them...

<http://www.westerndesigncenter.com/wdc/w65c51s-chip.cfm>

Making Modern Interface Hardware based on Classic Hardware should be fine..

MarkO