[Coco] Multipak redesign/replacement / New CoCo...

[Juan Castro]

In all fairness, chips seem to be orders of magnitude more resilient than
motherboard / analog circuitry / keyboard / casing / etc etc etc...


Juan Castro
Enviado do meu Olivetti Programma 101

On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 2:16 PM, Zippster <zippster278 at gmail.com> wrote:

> They are readily available for 3 or 4 dollars each in qty through Utsource
> as is the SAM.  Granted, they will eventually be gone and will have to be
> replaced with modern programmable logic of some sort.
>
> - Ed
>
>
> > On Feb 23, 2015, at 11:12 AM, Louis Ciotti <lciotti1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Wouldn't the problem with a new mother board be access to the older IC's
> > namely the VDG and the 6809 itself?  These are not exactly stock
> components
> > anymore.
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 12:03 PM, Zippster <zippster278 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> I would love to do this, and probably will give it a try with a CoCo2
> >> replacement once I wrap up
> >> a couple other projects, as it looks fairly straightforward.
> >>
> >> With the CoCo3 the problem would be decent documentation on the GIME.
> >> From what I understand, it will have to be reverse-engineered based on
> >> behavior.
> >>
> >> - Ed
> >>
> >>
> >>> On Feb 23, 2015, at 10:52 AM, Steve Batson <
> steve at batsonphotography.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>
> >> <snip>
> >>
> >>> Wouldn't it make more
> >>> sense to focus on creating a new Fully CoCo 2/3 Compatible Motherboard
> >>
> >> <snip>
> >>
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