[Coco] Serial stuff. 6551 ACIA. LAN/Wifi adapters. Drivewire

[Stephen Fischer]

You apparently are not on Facebook.

I am not sure if what you want is the same but something was posted to 
Facebook in the last few days.

Opps, a Evil Bay item.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/GuruModem-RS-232-Wifi-Modem/223452078218?hash=item3406c8208a%3Ag%3AZpAAAOSwO7Ncjwcc&fbclid=IwAR2GUc2vi5HQH-8_pDe-3yrEud6-ke8UJAekHB43QMdFi6VBsh4hFRg3RjA 


Software is just that, "soft" and can be changed.

The 6551 is not hard, I wrote a driver to read a serial keyboard for 
Flex. Try getting a hand built computer up and running with two (2)
defective floppy drives. Been there, done that. New drives and Flex came 
up the first time.

SHF

On 3/18/2019 9:12 PM, Walter Zambotti wrote:
> 1. A while back I read some posts regarding a serial to Wifi adapter that
> someone was experimenting with.
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> What ever became of that?
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> 2. I have a 6551 ACIA RS232 chip in my CoCoIII.  I had an OS9 driver for it
> at one stage but can't find the
> driver anymore.  I think there is one in the OS9 archives on the Microware
> site.
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> Looking at the 6551 specs it is rated at only 19200 baud with the internal
> clock.  Does anyone know what
> baud can be reached on an external clock.
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> 3. I asked this before (and was answered) but can't find the post.  Can the
> Drivewire drivers under Nitros9
> be converted to use the 6551 ACIA instead of the bitbanger?  And would this
> be worth while doing?
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> 
> Walter
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