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

[Joe Grubbs]

Yes and someone will need to write a driver so that DriveWire can use the second serial port. I don't think the code for the CoCo's bit banger port will work--remember the hardware just isn't there. #NotACoCoClone  :)

Yes I just hashtagged an email.



> Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 14:57:17 -0400
> From: chouimat at gmail.com
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Subject: Re: [Coco] 6 Chip ^809 Computer -> Kipper SBC
> 
> 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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