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

[Wayne Campbell]

The docs have been telling me my eyes are corrected to 20/20 for years, but 
my sight is getting worse despite them. I have real trouble seeing anything 
small anymore, and a magnifying glass is required. Forget reading the close 
caption on a tv across the room anymore. Street name signs? I can read them 
when I am almost to the intersection, when I used to be able to read them a 
block away. 20/20 my &^$%!!. lol

Wayne

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roger Taylor" <taylor at newfoal.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2011 9:54 PM
Subject: [Coco] 11 year old fixes Drive Pak, reminds daddy to slow down


>
> 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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