[Coco] Drivewire

Allen Huffman alsplace at pobox.com
Thu Mar 28 13:47:34 EDT 2013


On Mar 28, 2013, at 12:45 PM, Bill Gunshannon <billg999 at cs.uofs.edu> wrote:

> Drivewire runs over the Bit Banger, right?  Just how painfully
> slow is it?

Faster than the RS232 pack. :)

> And, to ask once again as I think this question got missed
> earlier.  Has anyone come with a hack that allows more than
> one RS232 Pack to be used?

Most certainly. Many of us who ran OS-9 BBSes had multiple serial ports. It just involves making a slight mod to alter where it mapped in the CoCo memory map. There was even a hardware mod that could add a second port to the same pack.

And someone made a 4-port RS232 pak, didn't they?

		-- Allen




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