[Coco] New "product" announcement...

Allen Huffman alsplace at pobox.com
Fri Mar 10 14:59:18 EST 2017


> On Mar 10, 2017, at 1:29 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at shentel.net> wrote:
> Allen: One should be aware that there is a buffer for that port in the 
> SALT chip, and I blew one early on in my attempts to configure drivewire 
> so I had a feedback loop.  That continuous signal warmed the SALT chip 
> up and destroyed it.  Your playing music thru it may have had the same 
> effect as thats pretty continuous switching too.

No worries. I'm just using it as an RS232 port, talking to the device via an RS232 port. "Playing music through it" just means:

PRINT #-1,CHR$(&H9F);CHR$(&80);

...or whatever bytes need to be sent to the sound hardware. Completely safe :)

		-- A




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