[Coco] 1 or 2 meg upgrade

[Bill Pierce]

Paul Barton designd and built up to (I think) a 32 meg unit (2, 8, 16, 32), he was selling his 8-meg boards, then turned it all over to John Turner right before his disappeared.
Robert Gault has one of the 8-meg units I believe.
 

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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: Fri, Nov 21, 2014 10:44 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] 1 or 2 meg upgrade


But nowadays SRAMs like Triad does not need refresh :)

Luis Felipe Antoniosi



On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 10:27 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:

> On Friday 21 November 2014 15:43:31 Nick Marentes did opine
> And Gene did reply:
> > On 22/11/2014 6:35 AM, Josh Harper via Coco wrote:
> > >   hi guys
> > >
> > > I was just wondering how hard it would be to copy the 1 or 2 meg
> > > memory upgrade boards from disto   as id love to have one of these
> > > myself thanks
> >
> > Would be nice to see Cloud9 release a 1/2Mb version of the triad.
> >
> > Nick
>
> The Triad is a 1/2 meg board, easy.  But to go to 2 megs you'll need to
> design a circuit that will add 2 more addressing lines to drive the memory
> mapping of the additional memory in 8k blocks.  One could carry that to
> its logical conclusion at 8 megs, which has been done but while it was
> described in the Rainbow, was not to my knowledge ever a commercially
> offered product.  One of the disto complexities was also the widening of
> the refresh counter, needed to deal with the square architecture of 99% of
> the memory sticks out there.  For 8 megs, the addressing IIRC expands to a
> full 24 bits, needing a 12 bit refresh driver, and thats 4 bits wider than
> the coco's built in dram refresh counter.
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
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