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

[Juan Castro]

There is an official DriveWire port for a real UART, the one in the
CoCo's classic serial pak. I don't know if it's the same chip model.

Juan Castro
Enviado do meu Olivetti Programma 101


On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 4:04 PM, Joe Grubbs <jsgrubbs at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Yes and someone will need to write a driver so that DriveWire can use the second serial port. I don't think the code for the CoCo's bit banger port will work--remember the hardware just isn't there. #NotACoCoClone  :)
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> Yes I just hashtagged an email.
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>> Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 14:57:17 -0400
>> From: chouimat at gmail.com
>> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
>> Subject: Re: [Coco] 6 Chip ^809 Computer -> Kipper SBC
>>
>> I like the idea of DW but will this need 2 serial ports?
>> one for the console and the other one for DW?
>> Mathieu
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>> On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Pere <psergm at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > 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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