[Coco] Slot Pack 3, MC-1, etc.

[Mike 0rtloff]

Heya List!!

Been a long time since I last posted on any kind of list. Truth be 
known, I'd forgotten about the CoCo List, but lurked on the UseNet 
NGs for the last decade or so... Bear with me if there's some 
formatting thing I missed or some strange s/w requirement before posting ;)

Getting my CoCo system(s) back together, still have the entire set, 
and spares (MC-10 to Coco3) but in the last 15 years, peripherals 
have gotten mutilated (young children), destroyed (Northridge Quake) 
and just plain lost in moves.

First I'll try a few questions about the Howard Medical Slot Pack, 
Disto MC-1 & the Tandy/RS 26-3129 controller.

( I'm no engineer or systems analyst, but I fancy myself a decent 
troubleshooter and lead fumes don't scare me ;))

1. Anyone have an =image= of the Howard Medical Slot Pack 3, mine is 
missing a chip. I may have let somebody have it like 10 years ago, 
the little sticker I put (noting what chip it was) there fell off and 
I'd like to get the thing going again, I have the manual somewhere, 
but it never had a schematic or chip list anyway.

2, My Disto MiniController-1 died about 94, an indirect result of the 
Northridge quake. I've replaced all the socketed chips (save for the 
6ms/DS modded DECB from Disto) but again, not sure of the placement, 
a graphic of the PCB would be just the ticket. The jumpers on the 
MC-1 were always a mystery as well.

3rd, and last question - It's been a long time, I ran OS/9 
exclusively when I was real active but forgot a lot of the techniques 
I used. Can the 26-3129 support DS 360k drives at all? Any 
hard/software hacks to make it so?

Enuff annoying you all for now, and BIG thanx in advance!

=Mike 0=