13 Dec
2005
13 Dec
'05
9:41 p.m.
Roger Merchberger wrote:
Move to Canada -- here is a comfortable 40 below. :)
I think today it is around 30F , just ample to have ice everywhere.
Same problem as the S100, tho - how do you chisel out an XT board edge
connector at home...
Umm hacksaw?
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cut ------ cut
But a 4Mhz Hitachi 6309 *was* made, and clock for clock it was even
faster than the 6809, had a hardware divide and some 32-bit
operations. Schweet!
I know they can clock @ 3 MHZ ... as for 4 mhz I don't know if you can
get any.
Also standard 68xx I/O is only 2 MHZ. If you know of faster IO let me
know where.
Crappy hardware? I just pulled out my durned-near-20 year old CoCo3
(which at the time was about 35 degrees F) plugged 'er in (yea, it was
stupid, but I was in a hurry) and it sparked right up. I posit that
machines today are the toys, and the machines of yore were the serious
business tools.
I was thinking of the expansion port.
Yup, and I drooled over the Gimix ads in Hot CoCo and Rainbow as well.
Boy howdy would I love to have one of those now.
Now that was a nice machine, too bad rat-shack never sold them.
That was all I had for a computer store.
Just where are
you that it is 30 below?
Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan on the border of Ontario, Canada.