[Coco] RomPack

[Boisy G. Pitre]

There's no room to build SmartWatch support into HDB-DOS.  I've toyed 
with extending HDB-DOS to 16K, thus allowing such features as RTC 
support, maybe in the future?

On Jul 22, 2004, at 5:15 AM, Mark Marlette wrote:


> At 11:19 PM 7/21/2004 -0500, you wrote:

>

> Steve,

>

> Extended ADOS as I recall was a 16K EPROM. HDB-DOS has ~8 bytes left 

> in the 8K EPROM. The clock driver would have to be added and the 

> functions added to make Extended HDB-DOS???? Boisy?????

>

> Mark

> Cloud-9

>

>

>> Thanks, Art.  You made my day!  I actually did remember!!

>>

>>

>> Mark, Boisy and Art:

>>

>> Is it possible to have this work under HDBDOS, similar to the way it 

>> did under XADOS3?

>>

>> -- Steve --

>>

>>

>> Arthur Flexser wrote:

>>

>>> To add to my previous response:  Yes, it would have come with both 

>>> an Ext.

>>> ADOS-3 driver and (on the same disk) an OS-9 driver.  And yes, with 

>>> this

>>> driver installed in the EADOS3 EPROM, the clock is used both to 

>>> display

>>> the date and time at startup and for to put the date/time of 

>>> creation in

>>> the directory entry for saved files.

>>>

>>> As someone mentioned, most people used the Smartwatch directly in 

>>> the disk

>>> controller, piggybacked with the disk ROM, but I also offered it in a

>>> Rompack to be used in the MPI for folks who either couldn't get the 

>>> disk

>>> controller's cover on with the piggybacked clock (I recommended 

>>> cutting a

>>> hole in the cover in this case as another alternative), or who had a

>>> controller with a 24-pin socket that could not readily accommodate 

>>> both

>>> the 28-pin clock and the 28-pin EADOS3 EPROM.  (I sold a 28-to-24 pin

>>> adapter, but the clock's leg's were too rigid to be bent outward to 

>>> fit

>>> into alternate holes as the adapter required.  You could use the 

>>> clock

>>> under OS-9 without an adapter by letting 4 pins hang off the end of 

>>> the

>>> socket, I believe.)

>>>

>>> Art

>>>

>>> On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, Steve Ostrom wrote:

>>>

>>>

>>>

>>>> Thanks, Mark.  I'm starting to remember something from ages ago.  

>>>> About the time I bought ADOS or XADOS from Art, my files began 

>>>> being time/date stamped.

>>>>

>>>> Art, if you are listening in, did you sell this to me?  Didn't it 

>>>> have special drivers?  Did ADOS access the SmartWatch to add this 

>>>> time information to the saved files for a creation date, or display 

>>>> the time and date at start-up?

>>>>

>>>> -- Steve --

>>>>

>>>>

>>>> mmarlett at isd.net wrote:

>>>>

>>>>

>>>>

>>>>> Steve,

>>>>>

>>>>> As for what the pak does, I'm not sure. The part is a SmartWatch 

>>>>> device,

>>>>> it's battery is internal to the IC itself. They have RAM that is 

>>>>> battery

>>>>> backed up as well. 2k-512k IIRC. Along with the standard CMOS 

>>>>> RTC.....

>>>>>

>>>>> Mark

>>>>> Cloud-9

>>>>>

>>>>>

>>>>>

>>>>>

>>>>>

>>>>>> I have a Coco rompack without a label that does not self-execute. 

>>>>>>  Upon

>>>>>>

>>>>>>

>>>>>>

>>>>> opening the black shell, I see a circuit board that says "ANTECO" 

>>>>> on the

>>>>> side nearest to the spring door, and has a fairly large black 

>>>>> block on the

>>>>> other side of the board.  This block is fixed to the circuit board 

>>>>> by pins.

>>>>> In the middle of the block is a rectangular depression with an 

>>>>> exposed

>>>>> chip.  This chip reads:

>>>>>

>>>>>

>>>>>

>>>>>> DALLAS

>>>>>> DS1216-

>>>>>> 8911D2

>>>>>>

>>>>>> My guess is a clock, but I don't see any kind of battery.  Anyone 

>>>>>> know for

>>>>>>

>>>>>>

>>>>>>

>>>>> sure what this beastie does, or who manufactured it?

>>>>>

>>>>>

>>>>>

>>>>>> Thanks!

>>>>>>

>>>>>> -- Steve --

>>>>>>

>>>>>>

>>>>>>

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>>>>>>

>>>>>>

>>>>>

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