[Coco] RS232 Pak needed

[Steve Bjork]

The Max-232 is only the level drivers for changing TTL to RS-232 levels 
and back.  (Not the logic chip for doing serial i/o.)

As for getting an UART chips, it's cheaper using an PIC, Picaxe or some 
other modern Micro-controller to do the serial i/o work.

With the Picaxe, I can get baud rates about 4 times faster using $3.50 
part.  Why spend $30+ for an outdated (by 30 years) chip?

On 9/19/2013 2:32 PM, Al Hartman wrote:
> I'm surprised nobody has done a project using a Max232 chip. Should be 
> pretty easy to use one of those to create an inexpensive pak that 
> could be built as a kit.
>
> Wish I knew EE. I'd do stuff like that to help people.
>
> Also a new lowerkit, composite adapter for Coco and Coco 2, even a 
> disk controller like those two for the Dragon.
>
> -[ Al ]-