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

[Charlie]

Hello Mike.

I recently drove for an hour and a half  here in NJ to save some coco
hardware that was bound for a dumpster.
I got a lot of nice stuff, a prefect CM8 a 512k coco3 and dual 360K drive
setup. A whole lot of peripherals.
The Disto Mini Controller 1 was in the pile of peripherals. I will try to
open it up and take pictures on the insides
for you. What does the toggle switch do?

Charlie



"Mike 0rtloff" <underserf at comcast.net> wrote in
message news:20080708164139.2629720A33 at qs281.pair.com...
> 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=
>
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