[Coco] Educate me about Y-Cables

[Brian Blake]

If you're gonna go that far, why not redesign the MPI?

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On Feb 20, 2015 3:48 PM, "David Ladd" <davidwladd at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well most of the Y-Cable's I have seen have 3 slots.
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> One of the things that limited the Y-Cable was buffering and power stress
> on the CoCo3's power supply.
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> So if if a board was made usefulness might be at least 3 slots and some
> form of buffing to prevent damage to the coco and also a external power
> supply input might help with coco power supply strain.
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> That's my 2cents worth though :D
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> On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 2:44 PM, Zippster <zippster278 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > We should really make a small board for this purpose.
> > What connections are necessary?  Just a straight through connection from
> > the
> > cartridge port to 2 connectors?
> >
> > - Ed
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> > > On Feb 20, 2015, at 1:48 PM, Joe Grubbs <jsgrubbs at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> > > I've seen a number of references to people using Y-cables to facilitate
> > the use of more than one program pak. Is there a vendor for these? If
> not,
> > is there a description of how to make one?
> > >
> > > What kind of paks can someone use simultaneously with one of these? I
> > was always under the impression that paks could only be operated one at a
> > time (hence the selector switch on the MPI), however a Y-cable seems to
> > imply this isn't always the case.
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