[Coco] DRAGON TANO Arrived

[Juan Castro]

On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Ciaran Anscomb <cocomalt at 6809.org.uk> wrote:
> Juan Castro wrote:
>> I don't know much about the Dragon differences. Does it have RS-232 by other means?
>
> Yes, the Dragon 64 (and thus the Tano Dragon) has an ACIA.  I gather people have managed to drive the CoCo bit banger faster than the ACIA can reliably transfer data though (odd as that sounds, and I might have got some facts mixed up there).  Mind you, easier to use the ACIA...

Well, I can tell you from personal experience the puny MC-10 DOES
communicate reliably at 38400 baud on its bit banger, so...

But there's another advantage a dedicated RS-232 chip has: full duplex.

Juan