[Coco] Y Cable

[Neil Morrison]

I'd add a buffer pack (a set of chips to drive the lines in each direction)
to the cable if it were me. It's cheap insurance.

Neil

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rod Barnhart" <rod.barnhart at gmail.com>


> I was wondering what precautions I should take when building a Y-Cable
> for use with the CoCo bus. I'm (vaguely) aware of the addressing issue
> with some of the floppy controllers. I'm also aware that I should keep
> the run as short as possible and add a ground wire between each signal
> wire. But I was wondering how many devices I can add to the bus, and
> if there are other precautions (other than not unplugging things while
> power is applied) I should take.