[Coco] Re: Embedded coco

[Richard E. Crislip]

Hello peak at mail.polarcomm.com

Wow! That sounds good.

On 12/17/03, peak at mail.polarcomm.com wrote:
> About using a coco mother board as an embedded controller!
> How many people would be interested in a mini coco?
> It could/would be on a small ckt board and would have:
> cpu(6809)
> rom
> ram
> a PIA or two (address decoded to the exact same locations as 
> a real coco.
> DAC
> Small PAL/PLD used as an address decoder. Both the CTS, and 
> the SCS lines would also be duplicated.
> 
> WhY?
> Because by using the same hardware memory map for the PIA's 
> and DAC would allow a much smaller controller . also a real 
> cocoI or II would not have to be sacrificed to use as the 
> controller. But a real coco could be used to test and debug 
> software before it was placed in rom on the embed board!
> 
> If anyone is interested I will design the ckt board and place 
> the design in public domain or even post it here if allowed.
> Heck I may design this thing anyway just for myself. Any 
> takers??
> 
> Eric 
> 
Regards
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                                             Richard