[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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