[Coco] 6 Chip ^809 Computer -> Kipper SBC

Mathieu Chouinard chouimat at gmail.com
Thu Mar 12 14:57:17 EDT 2015


I like the idea of DW but will this need 2 serial ports?
one for the console and the other one for DW?
Mathieu

On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Pere <psergm at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I love the idea of building a minimal 6-Chip 6309 computer, the only thing I
> would prefer on it is the USB-TTL because that way we could use
> Drivewire4, it would not be too difficult, even without HDB-DOS, using
> Tormod's DWLOAD, so we could have plenty of room to save/load programs.
> And the server could be any microcontroller board, no PC mandatory.
>
> To me, it would be nice to be able to add various (buffered) add-ons to the
> Keeper-Bus.
> That way every user could make his little child grow as much as he/she wants
> ... Luis' WordPak2+, Keyboard-Video, MMU and anything we could devise.
>
> The point that is more restrictive here is the fact that the RS-232 eats up
> too many addresses, if only it could be confined to FF4x (for instance),
> that would be
> a great improvement to free a lot of space to populate the board with 64K
> instead of just 32K, making things easier for Nitros-9 and the like.
>
> I don't want to slow down the developing, just wanted to tell you all my
> thoughts about that project... I have already ordered one.
>
> cheers
> pere




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