[Coco] Rom Pac Cases was Got the SDC

[Juan Castro]

I couldn't bring myself to destroy THOSE tapes. :(


On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 9:13 PM, Arthur Flexser <flexser at fiu.edu> wrote:

> There are various collections of 8-track tapes available cheaply on eBay,
> such as this one, with a current $3 bid for 18 tapes:
>
>
> http://www.ebay.com/itm/8-track-lot-18-assorted-Beatles-Led-Zeppelin-Moody-Blues-case-no-reserve-/251450700674?pt=Music_Other_Formats&hash=item3a8ba13382
>
> Art
>
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Bill Pierce <ooogalapasooo at aol.com>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > If you guys can't find emclosures for the SDC, if you have (or know where
> > to locate) some old 8-track tape (audio) catridges, they can be made to
> > work.
> > Here's what I posted some time ago:
> >
> > In another discussion on this list, I mentioned that old 8-track tape
> > catridges
> > could be used to make cases for rompaks.
> > In browsing in my old mags for some other info, I ran across the article
> > that I
> > got the rompak info from.
> > The article was in the March 1982 issue of "80 Microcomputing Magazine"
> on
> > page
> > 338. Ironically, the article is by our own Dennis Kitsz :-)
> > Here is a link to the actual article which also highly details how the
> > Coco uses
> > the ROMS as well. The part about the 8-track carts is near the end of the
> > article.
> >
> >
> >
> http://archive.org/stream/80-microcomputing-magazine-1982-03/80Microcomputing_0382#page/n337/mode/2up
> >
> > The actual directions are on page 343
> > I hope this is of interest to those who are doing rompak projects :-)
> >
> >
> >
>
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