[Coco] question about MPI and Orch-90

[Todd Wallace]

yeah allen, apparently its only certain hardware that needs to talk to the coco3 gime that will fail in the wrong combination. I've heard stories of other people using their MPI a long time without ever seeing a conflict. Instead of waiting for my CoCo3PAL chip, I've been using this MPI with my coco3 and orch90 and fdc without any problems. But I'd rather have it setup correctly in case I ever do run into an issue. I've already got my PAL chip ordered.

- Todd Wallace

On May 8, 2013, at 7:53 PM, Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:

> On May 8, 2013, at 6:50 PM, Todd Wallace <dragonbytes at cox.net> wrote:
> 
>> I guess you lucked out. congrats. I was gonna go with the yellow MPI when I was given the choice, but the grey one says "CoCo3PAL" right on the bottom so thought that was the better option.  The orch-90 book says to put the FDC in slot 4 and the orch90 in one of the other ones.
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> We may have to ask David Keil about the history of those MPIs -- he had used them both on a CoCo 3. I used my old MPI on my CoCo 3 until I read it was supposed to be updated. I guess I didn't have anything that conflicted?
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