[Coco] miniFLASH product

Mark Marlette mmarlette at frontiernet.net
Tue Sep 10 17:52:49 EDT 2013


Al,

You then will have spares! :)

Sent you PM.

Regards,

Mark




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 From: Al Hartman <alhartman6 at optonline.net>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com> 
Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2013 3:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] miniFLASH product
 

Well, I have a bunch of 8 and 9 chip SIMMS from old 386 and 486 systems.

Oh well...

What would shipping be on a board?

Al

-----Original Message----- 
From: Mark Marlette
Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2013 3:44 PM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] miniFLASH product

Al,

No more kits.

The $30 gets you an assembled 512K SIMM board. Includes the SIMM, have a few 
left.

The CoCo3 requires a 8bit refresh. Only the 8 or 9 chip SIMMS will work. If 
three chip, forget it...they are 9 bit refresh. Violate the rules and you 
will have memory loss. :)

Regards,

Mark
http://www.cloud9tech.com



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From: Al Hartman <alhartman6 at optonline.net>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2013 2:26 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] miniFLASH product


Nice!

I've been meaning to write you to order one of the last SIMM based 512k Coco
3 upgrade kits. I have a box full of SIMMs here that should work.

Al

-----Original Message----- 
From: Mark Marlette
Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2013 3:18 PM
To: CoCo-MaltedList
Subject: [Coco] miniFLASH product

Moved to a different thread.......

Al,

This product will be a direct copy from the sIDE hardware. Might add the
ability to do 2- 32K ROMs....

The sIDE was released in 2004.

I was going to make a separate product call FLASHpak. Have that in prototype
form, would save 600+ paks on a single pak.

Decided to integrate that in to the SuperSD design. These ROMS will be
loaded at boot time. Have this working already, can load a 8K file in ~12mS.

The SuperSD will also have a USB2.0 COM port on it that will run at the
CoCo's full bandwidth, RAW speeds obtained have been ~100K-110K BYTES per
second.

The miniFLASH product will offer a much lower entry point, target is ~$40.

Not all want the power tools, that is fine by me as well. I sold my last
separate disk controllers this past weekend that normally contain HDB-DOS
boot ROMs. So I needed a solution as well.

Nothing earth shattering or great here, just a slimmed down FLASHpak.

Will let you know when it is ready for release.

Regards,

Mark
http://www.cloud9tech.com

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