[Coco] Have no idea what to call it, but, it WAS New tool: WIRED

[Luis Antoniosi]

and about the fun of making your own interface :)

On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Darren A <mechacoco at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Luis Antoniosi  wrote:
>>
>> BUT.... since the schematics and ROM are available, lets clone it and
>> break the competition :P
>>
>
> It would not be difficult to clone the DrivePak since it is itself a
> clone of the Tandy Deluxe RS-232 pak (sans level-shifting circuit and
> DB-25 connector).  In fact, at least one person on this list has
> already converted a Tandy pak into a DrivePak.  The MicroDrive
> (uDrive) module Roger used is an off-the-shelf product made by 4D
> Systems.
>
> It would make more sense IMO to get a SuperIDE from Cloud-9 since it
> out-performs the DrivePak by a wide margin.  As we have seen, added
> versatility can be achieved with some creative contributions from the
> community.  Now if someone could work on that new 16K Super HDB-DOS...
>
> Darren
>
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