[Coco] RomPack

[smostrom at mn.rr.com]

Thanks much, Boisy.  You and Mark continually amaze me.

Art:

What are the odds that the rompack is still operable?  Might the battery still be working?  Probably not.  If not, is there any way to recharge the battery or to replace it?

-- Steve --


----- Original Message -----
From: "Boisy G. Pitre" <boisy at boisypitre.com>
Date: Thursday, July 22, 2004 7:02 am
Subject: Re: [Coco] RomPack

> 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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