[Coco] Multi Pack Replacement

[David Gettle]

I like your idea of combining floppy and hd controller into the MPI, and
re-designing it to fit under the CoCo, perhaps another way would be to have
dedicated FD and HD slots on the second board for those that have HD and FD
controllers, that would allow the FD and HD cards to be incerted from the
back of the CoCo/MPI combination, so the cables would be behind the unit.
That would reduce your development time, and still allow you to make a
FD/HD combined card later, that could be plugged into one or both of the
dedicated slots. If you do develop this I would be interested in getting
one.

On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 9:55 AM, RETRO Innovations <go4retro at go4retro.com>
wrote:

> On 2/23/2015 3:43 AM, Nick Marentes wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>>
>> An expansion connecter to accomodate a daughterboard?!
>>
>> Sound like a vaguely familiar idea... Yes, that would make a lot of sense.
>>
>> Nick
>>
>>  :-), I deserved that.
>
> I was originally thinking a pin header, to which a second PCB could be
> attached, such that the two PCBs were parallel, and the second one sat
> under the MPI PCB, making for a clean low profile design. The second PCB
> could be as long as the MPI (well, almost), giving plenty of space for
> connectors and such.
>
> Using a 40 pin edge connector is not ideal, since you'd probably want all
> of the "peripherals" on this second PCB to be individually selectable,
> which implies multiple scs/cts/cart signal lines.
>
> Jim
>
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