[Color Computer] [coco] coco1 on ebay

[Kevin Diggs]

Hi,

Gene Heskett wrote:
> 
> 
> It has the additional problem of only being able to use 1 of those 40 
> pins for ground.  The MPI, and all the cartridges I've seen, all make 
> heavy use of the ears on both sides of the finger pattern engaging 
> into the ground clips on both ends of the socket on the motherboard.
> 
> Without that extra grounding, even a single card plugged into this Y 
> cable always resulted in a miss-fire and crash in short order for me.
> 
> 
	What about fan-out and transmission line like effects (i.e. bus 
loading)? I would have thought these were much bigger problems than the PS?

					kevin