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Roger Taylor | 1 Jul 2011 05:06
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Drive Pak update


MicroSD Drive Pak update:

50 more boards were ordered tonight and will be ready in two weeks + 
2 days shipping.  I could have ordered using their 2 day express 
service but the cost was $200+ more.  The cases should also be here 
in two weeks.

So... please hold off asking me anything during this time, as I have 
nothing to do but wait on these parts.  When they arrive, I will be 
cranking out the back orders up to 2 a day.

When I'm caught up I will look into producing more paks but I'll 
stockpile the key parts this time and prebuild before selling too far 
ahead of building them.

Also, the CoCoNet ROM will soon support the Drive Pak using two 
address configurations to allow two paks to be used at once, or one 
pak being either a USB or wireless Drive Pak.  In other words, the 
CoCoNet server will soon support the MicroSD Drive Pak protocol, so 
the partition and virtual disk scheme can be used on any "Drive Pak" 
..  (wireless Drive Pak, USB Drive Pak, MicroSD Drive Pak, RS-232 Pak 
Drive Pak), or bitbanger cable Drive Pak (a ROM Pak and a cable).

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RJRTTY | 1 Jul 2011 06:01
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Re: New to the world of COCO

In a message dated 6/30/2011 5:38:54 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
gheskett@... writes:

>There is likely not more than 20 cm8's still alive, and the cm11 is an  
ega 
>monitor, not usable with the coco.  Your best bet is one of the  scan 
>doublers and a recent vga monitor, even the late lcd's should work  with 
>that.  Roy Justice was making one, and so was someone else, so  there 
might 
>be one of those on fleabay occasionally.

 
Hello everyone.   I still make my converter. I am on a  temporary
halt to production but will soon be back in my workshop,

I was the primary care giver for my father who had lung cancer but he
passed a couple of weeks ago.

I am now in the process of moving into his house which he left
to me and am rebuilding my workshop there.

I will let everyone know when I can accept and fill orders again.

You all would have liked my father.   He was a coal miner  with
a 9th grade education.   He put me through college and  could
hold up his end of a conversation on the physics of the
universe when it was the size of a marble.

He was my father and I shall miss him.
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Frank Pittel | 1 Jul 2011 06:33

Re: New to the world of COCO

Roy,

I'm sorry to hear about your loss. I hope you're doing OK. While I'm looking
forward to the converter I ordered at this years fest it's a backup for the
one I already have so please put me at the bottom of the list of people to
get one of your converters.

The Other Frank

On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 12:01:39AM -0400, RJRTTY@... wrote:
> In a message dated 6/30/2011 5:38:54 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
> gheskett@... writes:
> 
> 
> >There is likely not more than 20 cm8's still alive, and the cm11 is an  
> ega 
> >monitor, not usable with the coco.  Your best bet is one of the  scan 
> >doublers and a recent vga monitor, even the late lcd's should work  with 
> >that.  Roy Justice was making one, and so was someone else, so  there 
> might 
> >be one of those on fleabay occasionally.
>  
>  
> Hello everyone.   I still make my converter. I am on a  temporary
> halt to production but will soon be back in my workshop,
>  
> I was the primary care giver for my father who had lung cancer but he
> passed a couple of weeks ago.
>  
> I am now in the process of moving into his house which he left
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gene heskett | 1 Jul 2011 06:34
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Re: New to the world of COCO

On Friday, July 01, 2011 12:32:16 AM RJRTTY@... did opine:

> In a message dated 6/30/2011 5:38:54 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> 
> gheskett@... writes:
> >There is likely not more than 20 cm8's still alive, and the cm11 is an
> 
> ega
> 
> >monitor, not usable with the coco.  Your best bet is one of the  scan
> >doublers and a recent vga monitor, even the late lcd's should work 
> >with that.  Roy Justice was making one, and so was someone else, so 
> >there
> 
> might
> 
> >be one of those on fleabay occasionally.
> 
> Hello everyone.   I still make my converter. I am on a  temporary
> halt to production but will soon be back in my workshop,
> 
> I was the primary care giver for my father who had lung cancer but he
> passed a couple of weeks ago.
> 
> I am now in the process of moving into his house which he left
> to me and am rebuilding my workshop there.
> 
> I will let everyone know when I can accept and fill orders again.
> 
> You all would have liked my father.   He was a coal miner  with
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Bruce W. Calkins | 1 Jul 2011 11:15
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: <RJRTTY
> 
> Hello everyone.   I still make my converter. I am on a  temporary
> halt to production but will soon be back in my workshop,
> 
> I was the primary care giver for my father who had lung cancer but he
> passed a couple of weeks ago.
> 
> You all would have liked my father.   He was a coal miner  with
> a 9th grade education.   He put me through college and  could
> hold up his end of a conversation on the physics of the
> universe when it was the size of a marble.
> 
> He was my father and I shall miss him.
> 
> Roy
> 

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Roy,

You have my condolances.
Be thankful for and treasure the good memories.

Bruce W.

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Sean | 1 Jul 2011 12:23
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Re: New to the world of COCO

You have my deepest sympathy.  I went through the same thing in May
with my father.
This weekend I'm going back home so we can go spread his ashes at his
favorite hunting spot.

He didn't use the CoCo we had at all, but helped me start out with
computers when he got a Timex-Sinclair 1000 when I was 5 or 6.

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 11:01 PM,  <RJRTTY@...> wrote:
> In a message dated 6/30/2011 5:38:54 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> gheskett@... writes:
>
>
>>There is likely not more than 20 cm8's still alive, and the cm11 is an
> ega
>>monitor, not usable with the coco.  Your best bet is one of the  scan
>>doublers and a recent vga monitor, even the late lcd's should work  with
>>that.  Roy Justice was making one, and so was someone else, so  there
> might
>>be one of those on fleabay occasionally.
>
>
> Hello everyone.   I still make my converter. I am on a  temporary
> halt to production but will soon be back in my workshop,
>
> I was the primary care giver for my father who had lung cancer but he
> passed a couple of weeks ago.
>
> I am now in the process of moving into his house which he left
> to me and am rebuilding my workshop there.
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Mike Needham | 1 Jul 2011 14:15
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Re: New to the world of COCO

Hi Roy and everyone:

I am sorry to hear about your dad as well.  I lost my grandparents to
cancer, one right after another over 5 years ago and I still miss them
terribly.  And real recently a really good friend of mine passed very
un-expectedly who was a mentor and colleague and was very knowledgeable in
Tandy computers.. before he bought the computer store he ran, he was a
manager of a Radio Shack for a few years.  And he was an electronics guru.
 The sad part on this was that he was only 60 when he passed.

Anyhow, there are times when a person passing leaves a black hole sized
space in the world by their passing and we can only try to remember them in
the best light.  In the case of my friend, it was like a library was burned
down.  It has been 2 years since he passed and I still miss talking with him
and hanging out... the real interesting part is I didn't think we were all
that close and definitely when I first met him, I did not like him... he was
one of those people that grow on you!

So always remember the good times!

On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 5:23 AM, Sean <badfrog@...> wrote:

> You have my deepest sympathy.  I went through the same thing in May
> with my father.
> This weekend I'm going back home so we can go spread his ashes at his
> favorite hunting spot.
>
> He didn't use the CoCo we had at all, but helped me start out with
> computers when he got a Timex-Sinclair 1000 when I was 5 or 6.
>
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Mike Needham | 1 Jul 2011 14:26
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Re: Help Locating some Parts

Hi Mike:

That would be great.  Just let me know when you get a chance to test that
and all, I am interested.

Thanks,

Mike Needham

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Mike Rowen <mike@...> wrote:

> I may have a spare transformer for you. I won't have access to it until
> this
> weekend though. I'll take a look and make sure its working, etc. I have
> seen
> these on ebay pretty frequently as well. I'll keep you posted. Being a Unix
> guy, you should definitely take a look at NitrOS9 for the Coco. If you have
> not used OS-9, its very Unix like - Unix without virtual memory. :) As Gene
> has told you, a 6309 upgrade to your processor is worthwhile. I use the
> Cloud-9 Protector which also protects your 6809/6309 from nasty bus
> glitches
> on the expansion port that can fry it. Welcome to the list. I myself only
> got back into the CoCo about a year ago. Plenty of people here to help you,
> etc.
>
> Cheers,
> -Mike Rowen
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 6:09 PM, Mike Needham <jmikeneedham@...
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Rob Rosenbrock | 1 Jul 2011 14:22

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So sorry to hear of your loss. I can not imagine life without my father.

When you can accept orders again, I'd like to order one for myself. My CM-8 worked fine when I put it up for
storage, but that was many years ago and it will take a lot of work to get it out to test it. Somehow, I don't
think it'll work.

On Jul 1, 2011, at 12:01 AM, RJRTTY@... wrote:

> In a message dated 6/30/2011 5:38:54 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
> gheskett@... writes:
> 
> 
>> There is likely not more than 20 cm8's still alive, and the cm11 is an  
> ega 
>> monitor, not usable with the coco.  Your best bet is one of the  scan 
>> doublers and a recent vga monitor, even the late lcd's should work  with 
>> that.  Roy Justice was making one, and so was someone else, so  there 
> might 
>> be one of those on fleabay occasionally.
> 
> 
> Hello everyone.   I still make my converter. I am on a  temporary
> halt to production but will soon be back in my workshop,
> 
> I was the primary care giver for my father who had lung cancer but he
> passed a couple of weeks ago.
> 
> I am now in the process of moving into his house which he left
> to me and am rebuilding my workshop there.
>
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Mark Ormond | 1 Jul 2011 15:33

Coco compatible monitors...

I've got some NEC Accusync LCD 71Vs in my shop. And playing with groovymame I found that they will sync to 15
and 24k signals,so I hooked one up to my Amigas, but they only display NTSC correctly, pal screens get cut
off (I think the monitor only does 240 lines  <at>  15k). Do you think these will work with the Coco3 with a cable adapter?
.7v p2p on the input voltages, what does the 3 output?

Just a thought.

(As a note, the tech specs on this monitor say Synchronization Range - Vertical 56 - 75 kHz ,Horizontal 31.5 -
81.1 kHz, but this isn't correct.)

Later,
dabone

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