[Coco] What do people want?

Darren A mechacoco at gmail.com
Sat Dec 13 14:33:46 EST 2014


On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 12:03 PM, Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:

>
> Someone will have to track this down, but I believe it was Roger Taylor
> who discovered the RS232 pak was capable of much higher speeds by giving it
> some undocumented setting. I do not know if I read this on coco3.com <
> http://coco3.com/>’s message forum or in this list, years ago. It was
> around the time of his bluetooth pak and such.
>
> Anyone recall?



If you configure the bit rate of the 6551 ACIA for the "external clock"
setting it will operate at 115200 bps. This works well for TTL level serial
like Roger was doing, but I don't know if the RS-232 level driver/receiver
in the Tandy serial pak will work at that rate.

Darren


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