[coco] 6309 speed

[jdaggett at gate.net]

Curtis

WHere I used to work we used 68B09 based boards that were using 
a 12MHz crystal. These were r unning 24/7 on the factory floor for 
months at a time with no problems.

That correlates to a buss frequency of 3 MHz.

james

On 11 Aug 2005 at 22:21, L. Curtis Boyle wrote:

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>      When Kevin Darling originally started talking about the 6309 on
>      the  
> newsgroups (you can find the original articles on Google's
> newsgroups), he  mentioned that several people had them running from 4
> to 5 MHz reliably. I  know I had the 68B09 running at 2.25 MHz with a
> clock crystal upgrade,  although it popped my Magnavox 8515 monitor at
> the time (downclocked it  back to 2Mhz (real, not the 1.78MHz stock
> Coco 3's run at) after that).  Ran perfectly reliably then, and one of
> my Coco 3's in storage is still at  a true 2MHz, and ran that way for
> years.
> 
> On Wed, 03 Aug 2005 09:09:18 -0600, <jdaggett at gate.net> wrote:
> 
> > Gene
> >
> > I seriously doubt that 20 to 30 MHz speeds could be obtained. At
> > least  not operating at 5VDC.  Maybe at 6.5 VDC. More realistic is 5
> > to 10 MHz. The problem  wil lbe not all will do that. Maybe 1% of
> > all 6309 will do 10MHz. Maybe 50% will do  5 MHz.
> -- 
> L. Curtis Boyle
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