[Coco] Dual UART with FIFO Card for the CoCo

[sales at gimechip.com]

I'll have to check with Dad on the internal IRQ* mod, but I think it 
involved passing the IRQ* from the cart* straight to the CPU with some diode 
logic, bypassing the GIME. Now that I type that out, maybe that's not a good 
thing? I'll check with dad.

I've finished a layout of a 1mx16 upgrade for the DE-1 but I've gotta turn 
the "right-angle" tracks into not right angles :-) Still got to add the 
additional PS/2 port and a bit of other extras. It's taking a bit longer due 
to all hand routing (no auto-route) on this thing

John
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene Heskett" <gene.heskett at gmail.com>
To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Monday, June 14, 2010 6:43 AM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Dual UART with FIFO Card for the CoCo


> On Monday 14 June 2010, sales at gimechip.com wrote:
>>I'm 21. My dad is 42. He taught me all I know.
>>
>>I have a heart condition (both of my parents have heart disease so I guess
>> I was genetically doomed before I was conceived.)
>>
>>It's actually manageable as long as I remember to take all these darned
>>pills everyday. At one point, I awoke to find both of my feet had turned
>>bluish-purple and had no feeling, but luckily circulation returned before
>>permanent damage. They were afraid that some of the nerves in my feet had
>>been damaged because I couldn't feel my feet for almost a month. They
>>subjected me initially to a test where they applied electrical current to
>>the surface of my legs. When I was unable to feel that, they scheduled me
>> to see a specialist who attached electrodes to my legs and then started
>> sticking needles into my legs starting with my feet. I couldn't feel any
>> of it until they got to just below my knees at which point I yelled. They
>> told me that I likely had nerve damage and that nerves could not
>> regenerate so it would be permanent. Fortunatly, about a month later, I
>> began feeling my big toe of my left foot. Slowly, all feeling returned to
>> both feet, so there was no nerve damage (well, maybe a little but not
>> much). This was before they diagnosed a heart problem - in fact they
>> could find no reason for it. Eventually, my blood pressure rose so high
>> (staying between 176 and 200 over 100 to 110) that they began looking
>> harder. It took them 3 years to get everything under control. I still
>> sometimes wake up gasping for breath and it really scares me, but it
>> doesn't happen as often as it used to.
>>
>>I posted a little about this on CoCo3.com, but I didn't include all the
>>details. I mainly posted it because my memory is sometimes affected and I
>>wanted people to understand if I forgot something, or if I repeated myself
>>needlessly - it's because sometimes I just can't remember...
>>
>>Recently, my Mom was diagnosed with breast cancer on top of everything
>> else. They removed the tumor and she is going through chemo now, which
>> really compounds my situation.
>>
>>So you folks can see, I really needed something to keep my mind occupied.
>>CoCo3.com and this list have given that to me. I can design stuff for
>> people and post it on CoCo3.com which is cool because if I should
>> experience a sudden "decline" - at least you guys will remember some
>> little part of me
>>
>>:-) I know that's gloomy, but when it comes down to it, we're all mortal,
>>: so
>>
>>I've just accepted it and do the best I can - and I smile at least once
>>everyday because I just won't give up and neither will my mom :-)
>
> Yikes, that is quite a load, and thanks for sharing.
>
> I OTOH, am already older than my mother and maternal grandfather, both of
> whom cancer took, and my two daughters have already passed from it  And of
> coarse with a creeping PSA, plus type 2 diabetes, I am well aware that any
> warranty I may have had has long since expired.  There is already some 
> nerve
> damage in my feet from the sugar, but nothing like yours.
>
>>CRAP - I WENT ON A BIT OF A RANT THERE DIDN'T I?
>>
>>Anyway, all of my CoCo knowledge has been gained in the last three years.
>> My dad had told me about the IRQ mod to the MPI and an additional
>> internal CoCo3 IRQ mod that goes with it, but I had forgotten (my memory
>> woes...), but your email triggered the memory which is cool.
>
> I don't believe I have done anything in that area to my main machine, can
> you elaborate?
>
>>Well Gene, I've probably bored the crap outta you, so I'll end this lil'
>>rant of mine and get back to work on the CoCo projects. It gives me much
>>enjoyment to create this stuff to share with everybody.  --John
>
> I am hard to bore.  Thank you, John.
>
> [...]
>
> -- 
> Cheers, Gene
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>
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