[Coco] 11 year old fixes Drive Pak, reminds daddy to slow down

[Roger Taylor]

There's nothing more frustrating than using all brand new parts and 
soldering with extra care and when you go to plug the Drive Pak in 
for the first time, CoCoNet can't access the MicroSD card.  Hours and 
hours of looking things over, replacing all the chips, checking 
connections, checking the uDrive from a USB cable on the PC, etc. and 
still no luck.

To make a long story short, I was desoldering a few things from the 
board tonight like the 6551 socket and uDrive module when I noticed 
that some of my resistors were coming loose from the long strips of 
paper they come attached to.  So I told my son to go get 3 zip lock 
bags so we could make sure they don't get mixed up later on.  WELL... 
we found 2 resistors stuck to the side of the 4.7k bulk strip, so I 
put them in the 4.7k bag.  One thing kept leading to another and Kyle 
looked at the 3 resistors on the Drive Pak board and told me, "Daddy, 
the 2nd and 3rd are the same, just backwards."  I said, "Kyle, it 
doesn't matter if they're backwards, and they're NOT the same".  He 
kept repeating, "Daddy, I know what I'm talking about - they're the 
same, Daddy".  So I told him to go get my magnifying glass so I could 
make sure...

What do you know, a 4.7k was in the 220 ohm resistor spot.  How the 
hell did that happen?  :)  I swapped out the resistor and brought him 
with me to plug it into the CoCo 3.  Booted up.. and bam, CoCoNet 
boots up and gives me the partition boot prompt.

Our eyes got big and he threw me a high-five and we laughed.  Of 
course, I said, "Now you know, we still need to make sure... if 
Mickey and Pluto show up then we KNOW it's working."  So I typed 
DOS#"MICKEY" and naturally the OS-9 takes its time loading, so I made 
him wait with anxiety as the title sequence loaded up and then the 
two cartoon characters appeared.

Done, and 2 more paks go out tomorrow.  My side kick *apparently* has 
better eyes than me even though my last check came back "20/20".



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~ Roger Taylor