[Coco] COCO3 System Arrangement of modules

[wdg3rd at comcast.net]

From: John T Chasteen <johnchasteen.2 at juno.com>
> Gene
> Thanks so much for the detailed reply. I do have an ohmmeter. I did not
> check Cloud9
> recommended to place the two units that plug in MPI. Since I"M recovering
> from 
> the Shingles and less than 30 days until my 80th birthday, it is hard to
> play for more 
> than 4 or 5 hours at one time.
> Thanks for the download saver. I hope I recognize the sockets you
> mentioned. I can't
> remember if I have a schematic. I hope pin one is printed on the circuit
> board.
> 
> Thanks again for your help. I think I'll wait awhile before running
> jumpers, and see how things work.
> 
> John

I'm starting to meet too many people on some of these lists who are later into their youth than I am.  Hell, I turn 53 on Memorial Day and I was already past the best part of my learning curve when I first encountered the TRS-80 Model One at the end of my USAF enlistment (though it didn't get called that until the Model 2 came out in 1979).  Got a friend on the filePro (not Filemaker Pro on the Apple ][, filePro was first seen as Profile 2 on the TRS-80 Model 2 [original development was on the Model One by a guy active on that list who asks pointed questions of the current developers and maintainers] and started to shine as Profile-16 once Xenix showed up -- no relation to Color Profile, Tandy Corp had a habit of giving the same name to unrelated products i.e. the proliferation of the name Scripsit) list turning 80 Sunday.  At just about 53 {Monday, and the office is closed so I can eat my birthday pizza and drink the pitcher or two of beer though I now have to go outside for
  a cig
arette and the Doc says I really ought not do at least two of those three things -- but La Esposa is down at Balticon and unable to enforce his decrees) at a civilized hour), I'm in middle-youth.  I still play with toys and some of them are computers that spread across more than three decades of history.  I'm gonna fire up several of them this weekend partly to see if the dust hasn't gotten too deep and also to play Dungeons of Daggorath on a 16k Color Computer 1 again.  (Yes, I know there's a Java version and a lot of emulators, but I want to do it on a 19" TV, not an LCD monitor and the wrong keyboard).

Age here doesn't compare to some of the political lists I'm on.  The average age of a serious libertarian seems to be about Ron Paul's age and the average age of a real anarchist (as opposed to the socialist kids who call themselves anarchists but just want to substitute one set of tyrants for another) is long dead (which puts me at the low end of the spread).  I blame government-run education, but I blame that for a lot of things (like that kids from Bulgaria and Estonia are better at attacking Microsoft cruftware than the young bastards in the US).

If anybody has a source (or fabrication instructions) for head load pads for single-sided CDC 8" floppy drives, I'd be much obliged.  My Mod 2 and expansion disk bay units could really use some replacements.  This is more serious than my above comments which while being half tongue-in-cheek are also my arrogant opinions (life is too short to hold humble opinions)
--
Ward Griffiths    wdg3rd at comcast.net

These histrionics were probably unnecessary, since there was no reason to think anybody would be watching us with more than casual interest until I made my first move to follow Buchanon's trail, in London.  Still, somebody might check back this far later, and I always feel that if you're going to play a part, you might as well play it all the way, at least in public -- and it's hard to tell what's public and what isn't, these electronic days.
Donald Hamilton, _The Devastators_, 1965