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

[Kip Koon]

Hi Pere,
I finally got to the end of your email.  Your thoughts as well as everyone's are always welcome.  Thanks for taking time to write them all down and sending them to me.  I appreciate it.  I am making note of all of them.  
The Kipper Computer already has many features designed.  I just have not had to funds to make PCBs and test them.  With the current flurry of activity, I'll finally be able to realize my and everybody else's dream of building their very own 6809/6309 based Microcomputer fully expandable internally with great performance and eventually multiple microprocessors!  That is my dream in a tiny nut shell.  The wiki details everything I have been able to get to design so far.  Features are always alterable!

Kip Koon
computerdoc at sc.rr.com
http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Kip_Koon



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Coco [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Pere
> Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2015 2:50 PM
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Subject: Re: [Coco] 6 Chip ^809 Computer -> Kipper SBC
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> 
> --- Original Message ---
> 
> 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?
> 
> 
> 
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