[Coco] CoCo 3

[Retro Canada]

Mark Marlette is on vacation. When he gets back he will answer you

also did you try to clean the keyboard? you have to disassemble it and clean the plastic film as well each key.

good luck

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On 2012-11-04, at 7:39 AM, Gustavo Ranaur <ranaur2010 at ranaur.net> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I have a CoCo 2 with many cartridges (Floppy Controller, RS-232 interface, 2 
> floppy drives), and many games. Yesterday I tried to "ressurect" it but I got 
> no luck. It turns on nicely, but there are many keys failing on the keyboard 
> (that makes it uselesss).
> 
> So my questions are:
> 
> 1) Where can I buy a refurbished CoCo 3? I live in Brazil, so it must be 
> someone that ships internationally (none in ebay does :-()
> 
> It was my long childhood dream to have a CoCo 3 (I have only a CoCo 2).
> 
> I tried http://www.cloud9tech.com/ but noone answers in more than a week :'-(
> 
> 2) If not, can I fix the keyboard it? Well, maybe making an USB Keyboard to 
> CoCo keyboard interface (with Arduino maybe?)
> 
> 3) Is there a place where I can buy some kind of cartridge to emulate a drive
> from an SD Card? I googled a little bit and found many projects. Which are 
> still working? DrivePak, SuperIDE, DriveWire4. Which one is best/works? (If 
> there is a FAQ about this I couldn't find. Point me and I'll RTFM :-)
> 
> Thank you very much for helping a nostalgic CoCo owner!
> 
> Long live CoCo!
> 
> 
> 
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