[Coco] Re: Ethernet status (uIP/Contiki)

[Richard E. Crislip]

Hello Robert

On 08/25/2004, Robert Emery wrote:
>
> --- James Dessart <james at skwirl.ca> wrote:
>>
>> I'll have to breadboard the device, after buying the necessary
>> standard TTLs. Unfortunately, I don't have much in the way of CoCo
>> card prototyping tools. Someone on the list had said they'd prepare me
>> a board for that, and I can't, for the life of me, remember who that
>> was.
>
> That'd be me James... I've got a few little projects that keep getting
> pushed around, had actually forgot about this one. I'll start on that
> adapter tonight, I have most everything readily accessible.
>
> If anyone else is wanting to do some CoCo prototyping, I plan to keep
> this simple... just a board that plugs into the CoCo cartridge port and
> brings the connector out to a 40 pin dual row header. Then you can plug
> a standard IDE cable into my board and do whatever you want with the
> other end. 
>
> If there is enough interest, I could set up to do limited production
> runs rather than a tedious one-off. If I could sell about 6 of these at
> $5 each, I could set up to offer other CoCo kits, like the Turbo LED
> circuit, Repack adapters (brings the CoCo's rear connectors to the
> front of a PC case, unsing a drive bay), etc... simple little projects
> that give some satisfaction and/or add usefulness. Anyone interested in
> such a line of CoCo products?

I'd be interested in that. If you'll recall we conversed some about my "on
hold" repacking project.

Regards
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