[Coco] Telepak RS232 Pak

[Roger Taylor]

While we're on the subject, has anyone pushed a regular 1mhz-rated 
6551 to ~1.78mhz (2mhz CoCo) with problems?



>And it will continue to work, until it has to face a genuine RS-232 interface

>in a 1974 printer. :)


Heheheh.  I bet that printer dims the lights when the carriage returns.




>I think RS-232 is a good protocol myself, and I see no reason to not 

>use it at

>straight TTL logic levels with short runs of good shielded cabling.  Or to

>your bluetooth module on the same board, it makes absolutely perfect sense.

>But we shouldn't call it a legit RS-232, its not.


Good enough.  Just a serial pak or bluetooth pak.



>But where do you get a driver for it in a diskless scenario?  Or is the

>teletext rom still enabled?  I had forgotten that thing even exists...


My DC Modem Pak doesn't auto-start the ROM's software.  A few POKEs 
from BASIC can make the pak send test data to my PC, or I have 
cocotape.exe for loading simple comm programs from the PC as cassette audio.


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Roger Taylor

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