[Coco] Coco Cartridge Prototyping Pak PCB

Fri Oct 10 22:11:58 EDT 2014

That IS very interesting!  Hummm...

Kip Koon
computerdoc at sc.rr.com
http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Kip_Koon
http://computerpcdoc.com/

-----Original Message-----
From: Coco [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Flexser
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2014 2:34 PM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] Coco Cartridge Prototyping Pak PCB

Kip, the problem in this case wasn't the lack of <...> around the link, the insertion of which didn't help.  It was that your mailer inserted a space in the middle of the link.

Art

On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 2:27 PM, Kip Koon <computerdoc at sc.rr.com> wrote:

> Hi Guys!
> Sorry for all the trouble with the links folks.  Gene, I guess I'm one 
> of the users of mailers you are talking about since I use Outlook 
> 2010.  I really like it a lot.  Outlook performs well for me.  I use 
> and prefer HTML emails specifically because of links in the email.  
> Outlook makes it a lot easier and cleaner to see.  I've never really 
> liked text only email clients because of how difficult it is to read 
> an email that's an html encoded email.
> I'll start using <...> around my links to help the text only email 
> users find the complete link.  It may take me a few times to remember, 
> so please be patient with me.  I would appreciate it.  I never really 
> thought of all that before.  I've always been able to gather a link 
> together quite easily from other people that got wrapped around on 
> multiple lines, so I was not aware of any difficulty.  I can also 
> understand your apprehension to click that html button, Gene.  I rely 
> heavily on My Security software to protect me!  Your advice as well as everybody's kind advice is always welcome.
> Thanks everyone for pointing this out to me.  Sometimes I have to be 
> hit over the head with a 2x4!  :)  As I said before, please be patient with me.
> I'll get it!   Take care my friends.
>
> Kip Koon
> computerdoc at sc.rr.com
> http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Kip_Koon
> http://computerpcdoc.com/
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Coco [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Gene 
> Heskett
> Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2014 10:23 AM
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Coco Cartridge Prototyping Pak PCB
>
> 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%20Prototypi
> ng%20
> Pak%20-%20Top.png?dl=0>
> > >
> > > Should just work, and
> > >
> <
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/euo6vq5ukkr8gvu/Coco%20Cartridge%20Prototypi
> ng%20
> Pak%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%20Prototypi
> ng%20
> Pak%20sch%201.pdf?dl=0>
> > >
> <
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/pu3o328c8aolm9d/Coco%20Cartridge%20Prototypi
> ng%20
> Pak%20sch%202.pdf?dl=0>
> > >
> <
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/0736lzhlvs7w1of/Coco%20Cartridge%20Prototypi
> ng%20
> Pak%20brd.pdf?dl=0>
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
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