[Coco] The most bizarre thing

[Bob Devries]

... a serial to parallel convertor for a printer?

my $0.02

Regards, Bob Devries
Dalby, QLD, Australia

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Gunshannon" <billg999 at cs.uofs.edu>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2013 11:09 AM
Subject: Re: [Coco] The most bizarre thing


>
>> why there is a 34 wire flat cable with an female edge connector on it
>> then?
>
> Well, I could speculate all night.....
>
> An unfinished 8" floppy adapter.
> An attempt at a floppy tape controller.
> A robot controller.
>
> The possibilities are endless.
>
> Like I said, can't wait to learn wht the numbers on the chips are.
>
>>
>> but yes the wire seems to plug on an power olutlet.
>
> If what I can see is intended to pulg directly into an AC outlet
> I would guess it is a COCO destructor.  :-)  I know of no regulator
> that could take 120VDC and regulate it down to 5V or even 12V without
> generating more heat than my furnace in the basement.  And they don't
> even have heatsinks.
>
> bill
>
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On 2013-05-14, at 8:16 PM, "Bill Gunshannon" <billg999 at cs.uofs.edu> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>> dunno the wire is cut. i'll give more pics tomorrow
>>>
>>> By the big caps I can see what looks like a couple rectifier diodes
>>> and some voltage regulators.  Looks like one big honkin brute force
>>> power supply.
>>>
>>> Be interesting to learn wht the numbers on the chips are.
>>>
>>> I seriously don't see anything there that would be a disk emulator.
>>>
>>> bill
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 6:56 PM, T. Franklin <tim at franklinlabs.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I've had science projects in the fridge for 6 months that look better
>>>>> than that. What are the big caps hooked too?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) [mailto:retrocanada76 at gmail.com]
>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 05:26 PM
>>>>> To: 'CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts'
>>>>> Subject: [Coco] The most bizarre thing
>>>>>
>>>>> Got a coco2 for free with extra stuff and this bizarre unfinished
>>>>> scienceproject.It connects to the floppy controller, but what is it ?
>>>>> A
>>>>> rom
>>>>> based floppyemulator prototype ?pic.twitter.com/1SQqdqihux don't have
>>>>> other photos as I will put my hands on it tomorrow.What could it be
>>>>> this
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