[Coco] newb: Can I use DriveWire with my CoCo 2?

[Christopher R. Hawks]

On Sun, 22 Sep 2013 17:33:54 -0700
Chris Osborn <fozztexx at fozztexx.com> wrote:

> 
> On Sep 22, 2013, at 5:30 PM, Ken H. wrote:
> 
> > Also make sure that your cable is turbo mode compatible.  Pins 1&2
> > on the CoCo side should be connected.
> 
> Why is it necessary to tie RX and CD together?

	So that received data will generate an interrupt and the coco
will respond fast enough to get the bits that are 0.000004347826 seconds
apart. (that's 8 clock cycles at ~2MHz.)



Christopher R. Hawks
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