[Coco] Re: SuperBoard Progress

[Mark Marlette]

At 10:59 PM 11/10/2003 -0500, you wrote:

Tim,

Yes, it will. The thought process here is this. Make a series of smaller 
projects and make them 100% functional. Throw them all together and you 
have the SuperBoard. If I didn't do it this way I would have had a series 
of HUGE and expensive cards that didn't work. At least with the smaller 
cards the system boots and you can debug them in the area of the problems.

Now not all portions of the SB will be available but the larger portions 
are. The SuperIDE allowed us to do the FLASH code and hardware development. 
The CPLD has the equations to allow writing to the cartridge port with a 
modified CTS* decode. :) What were they thinking when they designed the 
coco??? Who wouldn't want to write to the ROM area? :) Hence FLASH!

SuperIDE has a small glitch which will be resolved.... Have some orders 
that need to get filled first and then to the bench to finalize this card 
for production. The board only has two chips which are smaller than a 
postage stamp and reside on the bottom of the board. Compact Flash type I 
socket. RTC option is the 3rd IC.....

Later,

Mark
Cloud-9


>Mark M.
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>I have been wandering is the SuperIDE interface with the CompactFlash
>Adapter going to be before or after the SuperBoard is out.
>
>Thanks for all the support you are giving the CoCo
>
>Tim S
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