[Coco] Its Alive!

[Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)]

The cpu could be placed on top of the daugher board and a ribbon cable with
a flat adip socket could be inserted there.

Then we would have something cleaner :) also, the cpu could be already
buffered to protect it.

If you blow your cpu then you're screwed :/



On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Bill Pierce <ooogalapasooo at aol.com> wrote:

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> Luis, I'll keep my 1 meg over 512k any day... :-)
> I just wish it was 2 meg :-)
> Nothing like having 700k of virtual memory for data space for a program.
> or 15 windows open, or 720k ram disk, or 10 hi res graphics pages, or etc,
> etc, etc,
>
> It's really a simple upgrade other than soldering to each pin of the cpu.
> The memory board plugs direcly into the memory sockets for the 512k, the
> 512k plugs directly into that. There's 2 power wires going to the mem board
> from a walwart (jack installed beside power switch), 1 power wire going
> from mem board to dat board and the dat board connects to the cpu. That's
> it. The boards are fairly simple. All parts either still available or
> comaptable parts can found. Hopefully, the new design will be simpler.
>
> The keyboard interface is 2 wires, one power, the other ground, then the
> ribbon cable to the keyboard port. There's a jack installed for the At
> keyboard. The fan keeps it all cool.
> My cover has a panel installed where the keyboard was and it all looks
> normal with the cover on, just an AT keyboard plugged into the side and no
> keyboard. I love it! I use my keyboard just like the PC keyboard,
> numberjack and all. I haven't used a Coco 3 keyboard in so long, I'd be
> lost on one. Perfect for OS9. The insert and delete keys even work!
>
> Bill Pierce
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) <retrocanada76 at gmail.com>
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Thu, Oct 10, 2013 12:39 pm
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Its Alive!
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> Honestly by the number of kludges I can see in those pics I'm prettty happy
> with my 512K coco3 :)
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