[Coco] Trying to ID CoCo 1 board.
Mike Pepe
lamune at doki-doki.net
Wed Mar 8 22:22:00 EST 2006
Phill Harvey-Smith wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Now I have fixed the problem with the keyboard on this machine I want to
> try and upgrade it to 64K, it's currently at 16K, and I have a bunch of
> spare 4164s, and socketed RAM chips so why not :)
>
> Anyway I'm trying to ID the version of the board, and cannot work out
> which version it is, the number under the cartrage port is :
>
> "8709222 A"
>
> The board does have 6 jumpers, some marked 4/16m, others 16/64 and the
> high/low one I know that the 16/64 ones will have to be in the 64
> position to ensure the correct voltage/address line routing and I know I
> will have to fit R83, which I presume is in Z7 from the SAM. However I
> don't know if I'll have to make any other patches to enable 64K.
>
> I can probably dig out my digicam and take a piccy if that would help ID
> it :)
>
> Pictures here : http://daria.bio.warwick.ac.uk/~bshu/CoCo/
>
> Cheers.
>
> Phill.
That looks like a D board, though I'm not familiar with that part
number. It might be a PAL board part number. However the layout is
definitely a D board.
It's been hacked to 64K it seems too.
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