[Coco] Preserving old CoCo diskettes...

Roger Taylor operator at coco3.com
Tue May 18 00:08:26 EDT 2010


At 11:04 PM 5/17/2010, you wrote:

>I, and Robert Gould, have spent quite a bit of time with this over the last
>year or so, and I have come to the conclusion that the SC6551 is a drain
>bamaged chip and that the only real cure is a different uart.  However, at
>4800 baud, where no flow controls are needed, its as bullet proof as any.


The UM6551 can handle 230400 bps with a 3.6864 mhz crystal as long as 
the CoCo uses tight code and can keep up.


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~ Roger Taylor




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