[Coco] MPI thoughts and questions?

[john donaldson]

Jim,
   IMHO, Go for the networking project. 

John Donaldson

On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 06:45:03 -0800
  <jimcox at miba51.com> wrote:
>I believe someone out there has built their own version 
>of the MPI with 7 slots.  Can anyone clarify this?  Is it 
>a homebrew system or did someone once build a 7 slot MPI.
>
>I know that the sound cartrage has a very old PIC 
>processor in it. Does anyone else know of any other 
>cartrages that have processors in them?  
>Reason why I ask is for my long term CoCo project, I've 
>narrowed it down to either networking or robotics.  For a 
>Networking project, I am wondering if I could use the MPI 
>bus to interface a Ethernut card.  For robotics, would do 
>the same thing, but with HC11 cards.
>
>In both cases, the CoCo would act more like a terminal 
>and the other processors would do most of the work.
>
>Any thoughts, comments, or interested parties?  I shelved 
>any idea of the HAM project due to restrictions on 
>attnenas where I live.
>
>Jim
>
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