[Coco] 6 Chip ^809 Computer -> Kipper SBC

[Pere]

Hello,
I love the idea of building a minimal 6-Chip 6309 computer, the only thing I 
would prefer on it is the USB-TTL because that way we could use
Drivewire4, it would not be too difficult, even without HDB-DOS, using 
Tormod's DWLOAD, so we could have plenty of room to save/load programs.
And the server could be any microcontroller board, no PC mandatory.

To me, it would be nice to be able to add various (buffered) add-ons to the 
Keeper-Bus.
That way every user could make his little child grow as much as he/she wants 
... Luis' WordPak2+, Keyboard-Video, MMU and anything we could devise.

The point that is more restrictive here is the fact that the RS-232 eats up 
too many addresses, if only it could be confined to FF4x (for instance), 
that would be
a great improvement to free a lot of space to populate the board with 64K 
instead of just 32K, making things easier for Nitros-9 and the like.

I don't want to slow down the developing, just wanted to tell you all my 
thoughts about that project... I have already ordered one.

cheers
pere



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Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 02:44:33 -0400
From: Joe Grubbs <jsgrubbs at hotmail.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Subject: Re: [Coco] 6 Chip ^809 Computer -> Kipper SBC
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Possible to create the keyboard and display interface that simply plugs into 
the serial port? Or go with the TTL/USB option (in lieu of the max232) and 
even have that supply the power to the interface?