[Coco] Coco Cartridge Prototyping Pak PCB

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 09 October 2014 04:29:52 Arthur Flexser did opine
And Gene did reply:
> Um, Gene, both of your examples give me a 404 error, using Gmail.
> Generally, I have no problem with links that wrap over more than one
> line, so it seems possible that the <..> surrounding the link is
> actually CAUSING the problem for me.  (The part starting with ak%20
> isn't highlighted, indicating it wasn't seen as part of the link.)
> 
> Art
> 
Damn emailers. That space I did not see is illegal in a URL.
That should have been Pak%20.

The %20 is how most spaces are encoded.

Honest, I was trying to be helpful, but its difficult when trying to fix
the mistakes that the use of a web mailer, as opposed to a text based
client do to the output.

rant:  I as you might expect, have no use for so-called email clients
that wrap a 2 sentence, 300 character reply with punctuation marks that
are perfectly legal, up in 3 to 10 kilobytes of html markup that when
viewed with a text only viewer, takes the human eye 10x longer to read
because of all the html markup crap injected and that to make sense of
what the person wrote, has to be mentally removed.

And yes, kmail can display html encoded messages, but they MUST be
properly MIME encoded too before I even get a button to allow me to
enable the html translation back into readable text.  Not all "web
mailers" do that, and fewer yet get it right.

Maybe its just me, being the now 80 yo curmudgeon I am, but folks who
post using a web mailer because its pretty, don't grok that it is in
fact pretty ugly unless viewed by that same web mail service because
each has its own version of whats correct.

Besides that, automatically decoding an html message also opens your
system up to all the various and sundry web based attack methods,
methods that I generally don't worry about because I don't click on the
show html button UNLESS I know the sender.

Thats just plain good practice. In 16 years of running linux, I have had
a router or 2 bricked, but that still didn't gain the attackers a path
into my machines.  And I don't worry about it other than to replace the
router with one that can be re-flashed to dd-wrt.  No one gets thru it
that isn't privy to the username/password used, and even then I would
have to enable access to it from a remote address.  That isn't going to
happen.

/rant
More below.
> On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 4:15 AM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> > On Thursday 09 October 2014 01:05:21 Bill Nobel did opine
> > 
> > And Gene did reply:
> > > Hi Kip,  I donأ¢â‚¬â„¢t know if it is just me, but the links you
> > > provide to dropbox give me error 404? something happening on my
> > > part? others seem to see it.
> > > 
> > > Bill Nobel
> > 
> > That is probably because we haven't trained Kip to use a set of <>
> > around the link, which indicates a complete, long enough to get line
> > wrapped, link.
> > 
> > > > On Oct 8, 2014, at 11:01 PM, Kip Koon <computerdoc at sc.rr.com>
> > > > wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Hi Guys!
> > > > Here is the second version of the Coco Cartridge Prototyping Pak
> > > > with all your suggestions.  How did I do Ed?  Not only have I
> > > > included the links to the renderings from OSHPark, but I have
> > > > also included the Schematic and PCB layout in PDF form since so
> > > > many people are expressing an interest in this project and have
> > > > made suggestions. The following links are the top and bottom
> > > > renderings of the PCB from OSHPark.

I have now disabled word wrapping, which meant I had to take 10 minutes
to re-format my message above by hand, and will try fixing these again.
 
> > Examples:
> > 
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/yy17jwamkejx94s/Coco%20Cartridge%20Prototyping%20Pak%20-%20Top.png?dl=0>
> > 
> > Should just work, and
> > 
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/euo6vq5ukkr8gvu/Coco%20Cartridge%20Prototyping%20Pak%20-%20Bottom.png?dl=0>
> > 
> > When you post long URL's, please use the <> convention and it will
> > work for lots more people, Kip.
> > 
> > > > Here are the links to the schematics and the PCB layout.  The
> > > > first schematic has all the decode logic.  All the second
> > > > schematic has are the holes.  The third link of course is the
> > > > PCB layout from Eagle Pro. V6.4.0.
> > 
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/amvqf8nf5xfvznl/Coco%20Cartridge%20Prototyping%20Pak%20sch%201.pdf?dl=0>
> > 
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/pu3o328c8aolm9d/Coco%20Cartridge%20Prototyping%20Pak%20sch%202.pdf?dl=0>
> > 
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/0736lzhlvs7w1of/Coco%20Cartridge%20Prototyping%20Pak%20brd.pdf?dl=0>

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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