CUBIX/6809 updates

[woodelf]

Roger Merchberger wrote:

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> Same problem as the S100, tho - how do you chisel out an XT board edge 
> connector at home...
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Umm hacksaw?
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 cut    ------ cut


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> 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!
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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.

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> 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.

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> 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?
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> Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan on the border of Ontario, Canada.

Move to Canada -- here is a  comfortable 40 below. :)
I think today it is  around 30F , just ample to have ice everywhere.

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