[Coco] Re: Nick's Survey results

[Richard E. Crislip]

Hello Roger

Well after I sent you my impressions of what you are proposing, it occurred
to me that if the mother board were stacked (they don't generate that much
heat) the space problem could be minimumized. The chief concern would be
getting power to them which wouldn't be that hard to do with a goo power
supply that has multiple power leads coming from it, such as the Amiga 2000
power supplies and PC power supplies. Lots of five and twelve volt leads
coming from them to power the HD and FDs.


On 12/15/03, Roger Taylor wrote:
> At 01:19 AM 12/15/2003 -0300, you wrote:
>> Hello Roger
>> I saw an article in the Rainbow about using an older CoCo2 as a print
>> buffer/spooler for a CoCo3. The only problem I see with your sugesstion
>> is the amount of space these boards would take up..
> 
> I remember that article. I have that issue somewhere. That's the simplest
> project I can think of. But you're right about the space. The boards are
> not really miniature, but the thickness of them can be a benefit.
> Actually, a CoCo motherboard is just perfect. If it's not in sight, it
> won't matter.
> 
> Some of my project ideas are rather serious, some dealing with robotics,
> pattern recognition, artificial intelligence, etc. Fairly good speech can
> also be generated using the 6-bit DAC if the right samples are made and
> can fit in the memory. My CVOX generator is not a good example because it
> uses 1-bit pulses and sounds terrible. I actually got the phonemes from a
> very old PC program. :)
> 
> 
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> Roger Taylor
> 
> 
Regards
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Cruisen                                                      _|_
              on AutoPilot with an Amiga   ---o-( )-o---   and a CoCo
 
                                             Richard