[Coco] Anyone else collect other old computers/game consoles beside the Coco?

[Joel Ewy]

On 08/27/2011 03:24 PM, Aaron Wolfe wrote:
> ...
> I'm not saying no, but I'd say lets wait and see where things are at
> in a few months.  Maybe I'll have fulfilled some of the promises I've
> made to other coco projects and feel more able to take this on.  If
> someone more experienced wants to join me and help make it happen,
> that might change everything :)
>

Let me know when you're sitting around bored, and looking for a 
challenge.  :-)  All this talk is starting to revive my interest in the 
MM/1.  I may have to get it running again soon.

> As for the serial hardware, I'm not familiar with the specifics of the
> MM/1 but as a rule I'd say some mechanism that can handle 57,600k
> would be a bare minimum for usable performance.. and that is based on
> coco sized file, I suppose 68k files could be quite a bit bigger.

I don't think most of them were _that_ much bigger, really.  I'll check 
my data sheets again and see what the UARTs were supposed to be capable of.

JCE

> Darren Atkinson did an amazing job with the serial code in DriveWire
> on the coco, and there is no way I could write something so nice and
> precise.  However, I can make bytes go out a uart :)  So if there is
> any uart type hardware that can do at very least 57,6k thats a
> possibility.  115 or better would be significantly better.  As you
> mentioned, it would be best to find out what hardware is common to as
> wide a range of systems as possible as step one, and see what we have
> to work with.
>
> -Aaron
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