[Coco] What do people want?

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 13 December 2014 14:33:46 Darren A did opine
And Gene did reply:
> 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

Quick answer, no.  I forget now which is the tx and which is the rx, but 
the tx will overheat and short its cookies at a continuous rate in the 
28kb region IIRC.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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