[Coco] Re: Coco Digest, Vol 23, Issue 34

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The big problem with running a CoCo at higher than normal speeds is timing for everything else, especially the GIME and disk access. I programmed around that in the genealogy program I wrote by poking up at the start of the program and poking down/up before/after every disk access. There are some advantages to non-multi tasking systems! I don't recall if the disk functiuon was fixed in the CoCo3 or there was a hack for it, but do recall the GIME having problems over 2 MHz.

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> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 22:21:41 -0600
> From: "L. Curtis Boyle" <curtisboyle at sasktel.net>
> Subject: Re: [coco] 6309 speed
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
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>      When Kevin Darling originally started talking about the 6309 on the  
> newsgroups (you can find the original articles on Google's newsgroups), he  
> mentioned that several people had them running from 4 to 5 MHz reliably. I  
> know I had the 68B09 running at 2.25 MHz with a clock crystal upgrade,  
> although it popped my Magnavox 8515 monitor at the time (downclocked it  
> back to 2Mhz (real, not the 1.78MHz stock Coco 3's run at) after that).  
> Ran perfectly reliably then, and one of my Coco 3's in storage is still at  
> a true 2MHz, and ran that way for years.
> 
> On Wed, 03 Aug 2005 09:09:18 -0600, <jdaggett at gate.net> wrote:
> 
> > Gene
> >
> > I seriously doubt that 20 to 30 MHz speeds could be obtained. At least  
> > not operating
> > at 5VDC.  Maybe at 6.5 VDC. More realistic is 5 to 10 MHz. The problem  
> > wil lbe not
> > all will do that. Maybe 1% of all 6309 will do 10MHz. Maybe 50% will do  
> > 5 MHz.
> -- 
> L. Curtis Boyle