[Coco] Current Status of the "Help Send A Fellow CoCoNut To This Year's CoCoFEST" Campaign

[Kip Koon]

Hi John,
The RGB2VGA Converter is $58.50 total which includes the PCB fully assembled, a Coco 3 interface cable and shipping.  The Wordpak2+ is $86 fully assembled and includes shipping.  Thank you for your interest in helping to send a fellow CoCoNut to this year's CoCoFEST.
The Wordpak2+ is a Video Display Generator expansion card for the Coco 1 or Coco 2 that uses the Yamaha V9958 VDG chip that has many display capabilities in addition to the 80x24 needed for the Coco 1 and Coco 2.  The VGA output frequency is the old 15KHZ not the current 31KHZ video standard.  You will need to use an old VGA monitor that accepts 15KHZ video signals or use the RGB2VGA converter that sits on top of the Altera DE-0 Nano board for proper operation to drive a modern VGA video monitor.  The RGB2VGA / Altera DE-0 Nano combo unit will convert the old 15KHZ Video from the Coco 3 or from the Wordpak2+ to the current 31KHZ video signal suitable for any of today's monitors be they flat screen or High Definition.  I don't know about the 4K Super HD TVs though.  The Wordpak2+ has drivers available for NitrOS-9 L1 running on a Coco 1 or Coco 2 as that was the reason the Wordpak2+ was created in the first place.  The link for Luis' dropbox downloads with the drivers is 
https://sites.google.com/site/tandycocoloco/dropbox
Click on the wordpak2+.zip file.  All of Luis Antoniosi's downloads are located at that link.  A full write up for the RGB2VGA Converter PCB has a link in the menu on the left of the page at the top of the page.  As far as I know, there is no link for a full write up on the wordpak2+.  I hope you will find all the information you need.  Thanks again for your interest.

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



-----Original Message-----
From: Coco [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of John Robbs
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 8:18 AM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] Current Status of the "Help Send A Fellow CoCoNut To This Year's CoCoFEST" Campaign

Kip,
I would love to have one of the RGB2VGA converters. I asked Roy Justus about it months ago and he said he was waiting for parts.  I don't know what the WordPak is. Do I want one of those, too? How much are they?
John Robbs
On Feb 14, 2015 1:34 AM, "Kip Koon" <computerdoc at sc.rr.com> wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> First of all, much thanks goes out to all those who have already 
> ordered either the RGB2VGA Converter or the Wodpak2+ or both fully assembled PCBs.
> Every order will certainly help send a fellow CoCoNut to this year's 
> CoCoFEST - namely me!  :P  I do appreciate everyone who has 
> participated so far.
>
> I will be finalizing the PCB order with the fabrication house in the 
> next day or the day two, so if any of you who are interested but have 
> not yet ordered, please do so as soon as possible.
>
> So far I have paid orders for 3 RGB2VGA Converters and 3 WordPak2+ 
> fully assembled PCBs.  Thank you again for all who have ordered thus 
> far.  I'm sending in the PCB designs in tonight and will do the final 
> order probably Monday.  I was going to ordering from a Chinese PCB 
> Fabrication house, but they are having their New Year's Day 
> celebrations this month, so I'm going with my original plan to use 
> OSHPark.  After the PCBs' order is done Monday, I should have the 
> finished PCBs back in about 10 days.  By then, the parts orders should 
> be about ready to arrive as I will put together the finalized orders 
> for parts Monday and sending in those orders as well.
>
> I'm delighted to put these PCBs together for you guys or should I say 
> for Y'all!  :)  To correctly pronounce Y'all, it should be held out 
> approximately 1 to 2 seconds.  :P  Thank you all again.  Take care my 
> friends.
>
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