[Coco] UART parallel driver. was> The most bizarre thing >>ATTNJohann

[Brian Goers]

On 5/16/2013 10:26 PM, camillus Blockx wrote:
> I think it was even in one of the magazines back then, and it was used
> to drive the star serie dotmatrix printers. Was it rainbow or coconut,
> I do not know any more. But I'm sure it worked.
>
> On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 5:11 PM, Bob Devries <devries.bob at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Back in the day, I used the Microchip AY3-1015D, which was a parallel to
>> serial convertor and a serial to parallel convertor in one chip.
>>
>> Regards, Bob Devries
>> Dalby, QLD, Australia

I built the Serial  to Parallel converter from, Hot CoCo, June 1983.
That one used the 6402 UART if I remember the number correctly.
You tied one of the pins high or low to change form Serial to Parallel 
or Parallel to Serial.

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