[Coco] RS232 Pak needed

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 21 September 2013 21:52:12 Richard E. Crislip did opine:

> Sooo what are you selling Gene? I must not have gotten the memu 8-).

I haven't made up my feeble mind yet Richard.  All these discussions has 
made me realize I have some duplicated equipment though. I dug Dennis 
Scala's old original coco3 and its matching MPI out last night to see what 
color it was after 20 years in a oem packing box stuck in an even darker 
box, quite nice actually.  I do know it has the early, noisy (1986) gime in 
it, and the warranty seal on the MPI is broken so I assume its had the 
coco3 fix.  But I never used it, Karl and I drove up to Erie PA & bought it 
right off a small desk in his living room.  I wanted the Disto 4n1 to 
replace a B&B HD setup that reinvented the word flaky, and Karl wanted 
something else from it for his coco system & I wound up with the coco3 & 
the MPI to stash for the end of time I guess.

Then the discussion with Luis over his WP-RS prototype that must have been 
the replacement for the WP-RS if Tandy sales hadn't flushed the coco, made 
me take inventory, and it turns out I have 3, one of which has been 
modified for TTL synchs out of a db9 (vga) connector, & that one I should 
probably package with the 13" PC Monitor 80 it drove.  The other two, one 
white, one black like the modified one still have the RCA video out and 
probably will need to have the I/O address decoding modified so its all in 
one 4 byte I/O block, at $FF78-7B which /my/ version of the drivers has 
been patched for.  For some reason, known only to the PBJ folks the stock 
model used $FF76-79, which ties up two I/O blocks on the coco and should 
have been a hanging offense.  But I'm not using those now for several years 
as Boisy excised the drivers from Nitros9 quite some time back when I 
wasn't looking, sometime in the later 90's I guess when I was so busy at 
the tv station.

I've worn out most of my floppy drives, but have 3 J&M controller's, one a 
CP that I had to quit using to drive a parallel printer when the FCC made 
then quiet the noise down, the J&M-CP's write pulse wasn't long enough to 
get through a DMP-132's noise filters.  There is also an HDI controller 
buried around here someplace, one that I think the hi-dens mod could be 
hacked into, but I've not uncovered it recently.  With drivewire now, who 
cares?  And that isn't near the whole list.

And a small grocery sack of games , Speech-sound pack, one of the x-pads, 
several coco 1 & 2's.  One tends to collect this stuff at yards sales, 
stick it on the shelf and promptly forget its there.

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