[Coco] CoCo Turbo LED and more...

[dave at davebiz.com]

That’s the nice thing about the RS232 port on the CoCo. It’s software driven so you can have as many bits as you want as long as you write the software for it. 

-Dave Philipsen

> On Dec 8, 2023, at 8:39 PM, Bruce Borer via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
>    After 40 years I came back to play with the CoCo.  I am hoping
> someone out there can answer me this.
> Is there a way to change the RS232 port's data bits from 7 to 8?
> One of the CoCo manuals states that the default settings for the RS232
> port are 600 baud, 7 data bits, one stop bit.
> I have seen pokes needed to change the baud rate but want to us the
> port exchange 8 bits.  DLOADM must do it
> so I hope there is a simple way to do it.
> 
>    My next project is to develop an interface card (ROM cartridge
> slot) that can replace the Disk Interface with
> USB Flash drives, replace the Disk ROM with Flash that can be swapped
> with different versions (or different ROM
> images) and if I can do that then I probably support 2 UARTS. I have
> it designed in principle and now prototyping it.
> I do not expect to sell copies of it because it is likely to be too
> expensive, I am doing it because that is what I like to do.
> 
> Bruce P. Borer P.Eng. Ret.
> 
>> On Thu, Dec 7, 2023 at 11:34 PM Robert Emery via Coco
>> <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I needed to learn Kicad, and this seemed like a fun project to start with.
>> I live-streamed my last build for fun...
>> https://youtube.com/live/pU38eFwil1E?feature=share
>> 
>> Bob
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