[Coco] No MPI - any suggestions?

[Phill Harvey-Smith]

Frank Swygert wrote:
> Without a Y cable you do the same thing, but carefully pull the pak out 
> and insert the disk controller between the two steps. You MUST insert 
> the disk controller STRAIGHT in or there is a chance the power line can 
> short to an adjoining line. If you look on a cartridge the power line is 
> slightly shorter than the others to prevent this. Wouldn't hurt to trim 
> that land on the disk controller back. There is a small risk of blowing 
> the CPU (unless you trim the power land back), but many of us did it 
> this way "back in the day". 

I used to do this with the Alldream assembler/monitor on the Dragon, 
soemthing that also helps is if you hold reset down whilst inserting as 
this tristates the bus, never tried it with a floppy cart tho.

Cheers.

Phill.

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Phill Harvey-Smith, Programmer, Hardware hacker, and general eccentric !

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