[Coco] 8 slot multi pak

[Mathieu Chouinard]

ebay?

On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 10:59 AM, John W. Linville
<linville at tuxdriver.com> wrote:
> Hahaha...now I need to figure-out how to buy and old set of those animatronics!
>
> John
>
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 08:47:45AM -0600, Dave Philipsen wrote:
>> Yes.
>>
>>
>> On 1/19/2017 8:21 AM, John W. Linville wrote:
>> > Did you work for Chuck-E-Cheese???
>> >
>> > On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 01:32:28AM -0600, Dave Philipsen wrote:
>> > > Yes, that's possible.  I have some old passive backplanes that were used for
>> > > an animatronics system that used a 6502 processor at 1 MHz as the main board
>> > > and the CPU card with just a single set of buffers would run 8 or 9 other
>> > > cards on the backplane.  The backplane fit into a 19" rack and I don't
>> > > believe there was any kind of termination on the end.  Literally hundreds of
>> > > these card cages were made and used about 12 hours a day, 365 days a year
>> > > and some are still running today (since 1977) and have had no problems in
>> > > that regard.  Some expansion cards had 6821s, some had 6850s, that sort of
>> > > thing.  The backplane PCB was double thickness - .125".
>> > >
>> > > Dave
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > On 1/18/2017 1:18 AM, RETRO Innovations wrote:
>> > > > On 1/18/2017 12:44 AM, Dave Philipsen wrote:
>> > > > > I think you could probably drive 8 slots with a single set of
>> > > > > buffers.  Just make sure the buffers have a high fanout.  I think
>> > > > > some buffers can do 20 or more TTL loads on fanout.  And you might
>> > > > > also want to experiment with termination on the end of the lines.
>> > > > I meant to also note that the capacitance might be an issue, but forgot
>> > > > to add that before sending.  TI and S-100 bus machine shave 8-12 slots,
>> > > > but most include buffers on each card to deal with the issue.
>> > > >
>> > > > Jim
>> > > >
>> > > >
>> > >
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