[Coco] Re: Free coco items from farna....
farna at att.net
farna at att.net
Sat Jul 2 09:49:01 EDT 2005
Someone replied to my previous message about a few items I have, but I lost the e-mail!! Have them packaged now, would you send me an e-mail with the mailing address??
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Frank Swygert
Publisher, "American Independent
Magazine" (AIM)
For all AMC enthusiasts
http://farna.home.att.net/AIM.html
(free download available!)
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> 1. CoCo stuff and magazines available (Tony Podraza)
> 2. RE: Vol. IX No. 1 Scanned (Roger Taylor)
> 3. Cleaning a CoCo case... (Rogelio Perea)
> 4. Re: [Color Computer] 1M simms in Cloud9 SIMM upgrade kit
> (Mike Pepe)
> 5. Re: [Color Computer] 1M simms in Cloud9 SIMM upgrade kit
> (Paul T. Barton)
> 6. Re: [Color Computer] 1M simms in Cloud9 SIMM upgrade kit
> (Paul T. Barton)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 22:57:20 GMT
> From: "Tony Podraza" <tonypodraza at juno.com>
> Subject: [Coco] CoCo stuff and magazines available
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Message-ID: <20050628.155743.28900.268097 at webmail15.lax.untd.com>
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>
> I recently received an email from a lady in NY about the gear of her late
> husband. I asked her if I could pass it along; perhaps there is someone closer
> to her than I am who can rescue the material.
>
> "My husband passed away a couple of years ago and had a collection of coco
> computers and rainbow tapes. I don't know anything about the coco computers or
> rainbow but I don't want to just discard them(I'll be moving in a few months)
> and wonder if anyone would be interested in them. As I said I know nothing
> about them. I live in the southwest corner of New York state near the PA border
> and Erie, PA. Thanks. Corinne"
>
> If you are interested, drop me a line and I will forward her email address to
> you. No sense blurting it out to the world. Besides, I was silly and forgot to
> copy it down before I started this message.
>
> Any Takers?
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 15:25:08 -0500
> From: Roger Taylor <roger at newfoal.com>
> Subject: RE: [Coco] Vol. IX No. 1 Scanned
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Message-ID: <6.2.1.2.0.20050615151822.01d19858 at mail.newfoal.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed
>
> At 01:57 PM 6/15/2005, you wrote:
> >For reference here is my version of the cleaned cover:
> >
> >http://www.musicheadproductions.org/coco/newcover2.jpg
> >
> >
> >Here's the links you originally provided for cross reference:
> >
> >www.coco3.com/oldcover.jpg
> >
> >www.coco3.com/newcover.jpg
> >
>
>
> No offense, but your newcover2.jpg looks worse than my oldcover.jpg :)
>
> For me, the oil paint filter in MGI Photo Suite III does wonders. Take the
> resulting image and dither it down to 64-128 colors and you'll get a fairly
> optimized image for printers and monitors. I think I used 90% compression
> on the JPEG, which is probably somewhat too high.
>
> I won't have time to be helping too much with this project, but I thought
> I'd let you know what removes magazine cover blemishes the best for me.
>
> Good luck,
>
>
>
>
> --
> Roger Taylor
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 22:29:24 -0400
> From: "Rogelio Perea" <os9dude at hotmail.com>
> Subject: [Coco] Cleaning a CoCo case...
> To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Message-ID: <BAY104-DAV215695766F30E36C97795FAE00 at phx.gbl>
> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1";
> reply-type=original
>
> Thanks for all the suggestions on the CGP-110 and PC-2 plotter mini gears,
> this upcoming weekend shall find me laboring at trying to fix that.
>
> On other CoCo project, I set to replace the internal fan I had put in my
> CoCo 3 bottom shell a few years ago, the micro fan was bought at Radio Shack
> and it had become very noisy and I just got two smaller low profile Minebea
> micro fans. The first fan was set for intake at one of the vents directly
> below the keyboard and worked very weel at keeping the components cool, the
> new fans would be set on the top shell of the case as exhaust, one directly
> above the RAM chips and the other on top of the 6809.
>
> While prepping the top shell I decided to clean it off a little bit. For
> that I always had use off the shelf cleaners, at one time I tried Windex
> with varying levels of success, all cleaners I had used left behing a film
> of crud on the textured areas of the plastic case, mainly at the keyboard
> cutout and the top vent ribs. Just for kicks I decided to try some new
> stuff -> Greased Lightning... I was amazed at how deep and well it would
> clean up the CoCo case, it restored it to brand new condition - the case had
> not been exposed to sun so there was no yellowing, I can't verify if the
> noted cleaner would do something good to a yellowed case.
>
> So if you need to clean the off-white CoCo cases try the above product. One
> BIG word of caution: put a carefully placed mask over the CoCo badge,
> Greased Lightning will discolor the black background as well as the 3 color
> bars, I learned this the hard way, as my CoCo 3 badge sports now a dull
> black color with no colored RGB bars, looks kind of sterile now :-)
>
> Also worthy of mention is that I didn't try (yet) to clean a battleship gray
> case, my assumption (from what happened t me and my CoCo 3 case) is thet the
> silver color could probably be stripped away by the cleaner revealing the
> black surface of the plastic shell.
>
> Use this stuff with great care!. Properly used it can help you restore that
> CoCo 3 finish to pristine glory.
>
>
>
> -=[ Rogelio ]=-
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 09:08:55 -0400
> From: Mike Pepe <lamune at doki-doki.net>
> Subject: Re: [Coco] [Color Computer] 1M simms in Cloud9 SIMM upgrade
> kit
> To: ColorComputer at yahoogroups.com
> Message-ID: <42C29D67.6020301 at doki-doki.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
> Paul, Gene...
>
> I think you're right. I see a flaw in my theory but practical testing
> seems to go with Paul on this one.
>
> A 256k DRAM, although it's "9 bits per axis" actually only has 256
> columns (8 bit refresh)
>
> A 1M DRAM, whichi is "10 bits per axis" only has 512 columns (9 bit
> refresh)
>
> I would still think that in theory you just don't use half of those
> columns and the memory works fine. I ran the cloud9 memory test for
> hours and hours and hours and everything tested fine.
>
> I then ran the practical peripherals memory test just to verify my
> results, and it reports errors with anything I test except 256k modules.
> So, it's possible the algorithm in the first memory test was keeping
> things refreshed but a more sophisticated test shows some errors.
>
> It's too bad we can't hack that stupid GIME chip. there's plenty of time
> to refresh a 1M chip as although there are twice as many columns to
> refresh the time in which you have to refresh it is doubled.
>
> Well it was an interesting experiment nonetheless!
>
> Paul T. Barton wrote:
> > Mike,
> >
> > Just let it sit for a minute or so,
> > doing nothing, it may crash. My experience.
> >
> > Paul T Barton
> >
> >
> > --- Mike Pepe <lamune at doki-doki.net> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>I was going to send this over to Mark at cloud
> >>9, but I figured I'd open it to the group.
> >>
> >>I'm unsing a Cloud 9 512k SIMM upgrade board.
> >
> > --snipped--
> >
> >>Then I got brave and installed a set of 1M 3
> >>chip modules. They also
> >>work! I've been running a memory test on it for
> >>several hours and no problems reported.
> >
> > --snipped--
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> Message: 5
> Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 08:05:27 -0700 (PDT)
> From: "Paul T. Barton" <idezilla at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Coco] [Color Computer] 1M simms in Cloud9 SIMM upgrade
> kit
> To: ColorComputer at yahoogroups.com, CoCoList for Color Computer
> Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Message-ID: <20050629150527.44848.qmail at web41215.mail.yahoo.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
>
> Mike,
>
> Still, I think that it can be done.
> By using CAS before RAS DRAM internal refreshing.
> The DRAMs keep their own internal counter
> for this. Just swap RAS for CAS,
> only during HSync and/or VSync.
> I know that this works, I use it.
>
> I could give out a partial schematic for this,
> if you want a look-see.
>
> Paul
>
> --- Mike Pepe <lamune at doki-doki.net> wrote:
>
> > Paul, Gene...
> >
> > I think you're right. I see a flaw in my theory
> > but practical testing
> > seems to go with Paul on this one.
> >
> > A 256k DRAM, although it's "9 bits per axis"
> > actually only has 256
> > columns (8 bit refresh)
> >
> > A 1M DRAM, whichi is "10 bits per axis" only
> > has 512 columns (9 bit
> > refresh)
> >
> > I would still think that in theory you just
> > don't use half of those
> > columns and the memory works fine. I ran the
> > cloud9 memory test for
> > hours and hours and hours and everything tested
> > fine.
> >
> > I then ran the practical peripherals memory
> > test just to verify my
> > results, and it reports errors with anything I
> > test except 256k modules.
> > So, it's possible the algorithm in the first
> > memory test was keeping
> > things refreshed but a more sophisticated test
> > shows some errors.
> >
> > It's too bad we can't hack that stupid GIME
> > chip. there's plenty of time
> > to refresh a 1M chip as although there are
> > twice as many columns to
> > refresh the time in which you have to refresh
> > it is doubled.
> >
> > Well it was an interesting experiment
> > nonetheless!
> >
> > Paul T. Barton wrote:
> > > Mike,
> > >
> > > Just let it sit for a minute or so,
> > > doing nothing, it may crash. My experience.
> > >
> > > Paul T Barton
> > >
> > >
> > > --- Mike Pepe <lamune at doki-doki.net> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >>I was going to send this over to Mark at
> > cloud
> > >>9, but I figured I'd open it to the group.
> > >>
> > >>I'm unsing a Cloud 9 512k SIMM upgrade board.
> > >
> > > --snipped--
> > >
> > >>Then I got brave and installed a set of 1M 3
> > >>chip modules. They also
> > >>work! I've been running a memory test on it
> > for
> > >>several hours and no problems reported.
> > >
> > > --snipped--
>
>
>
>
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>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 6
> Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 08:05:27 -0700 (PDT)
> From: "Paul T. Barton" <idezilla at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Coco] [Color Computer] 1M simms in Cloud9 SIMM upgrade
> kit
> To: ColorComputer at yahoogroups.com, CoCoList for Color Computer
> Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Message-ID: <20050629150527.44848.qmail at web41215.mail.yahoo.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
> Mike,
>
> Still, I think that it can be done.
> By using CAS before RAS DRAM internal refreshing.
> The DRAMs keep their own internal counter
> for this. Just swap RAS for CAS,
> only during HSync and/or VSync.
> I know that this works, I use it.
>
> I could give out a partial schematic for this,
> if you want a look-see.
>
> Paul
>
> --- Mike Pepe <lamune at doki-doki.net> wrote:
>
> > Paul, Gene...
> >
> > I think you're right. I see a flaw in my theory
> > but practical testing
> > seems to go with Paul on this one.
> >
> > A 256k DRAM, although it's "9 bits per axis"
> > actually only has 256
> > columns (8 bit refresh)
> >
> > A 1M DRAM, whichi is "10 bits per axis" only
> > has 512 columns (9 bit
> > refresh)
> >
> > I would still think that in theory you just
> > don't use half of those
> > columns and the memory works fine. I ran the
> > cloud9 memory test for
> > hours and hours and hours and everything tested
> > fine.
> >
> > I then ran the practical peripherals memory
> > test just to verify my
> > results, and it reports errors with anything I
> > test except 256k modules.
> > So, it's possible the algorithm in the first
> > memory test was keeping
> > things refreshed but a more sophisticated test
> > shows some errors.
> >
> > It's too bad we can't hack that stupid GIME
> > chip. there's plenty of time
> > to refresh a 1M chip as although there are
> > twice as many columns to
> > refresh the time in which you have to refresh
> > it is doubled.
> >
> > Well it was an interesting experiment
> > nonetheless!
> >
> > Paul T. Barton wrote:
> > > Mike,
> > >
> > > Just let it sit for a minute or so,
> > > doing nothing, it may crash. My experience.
> > >
> > > Paul T Barton
> > >
> > >
> > > --- Mike Pepe <lamune at doki-doki.net> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >>I was going to send this over to Mark at
> > cloud
> > >>9, but I figured I'd open it to the group.
> > >>
> > >>I'm unsing a Cloud 9 512k SIMM upgrade board.
> > >
> > > --snipped--
> > >
> > >>Then I got brave and installed a set of 1M 3
> > >>chip modules. They also
> > >>work! I've been running a memory test on it
> > for
> > >>several hours and no problems reported.
> > >
> > > --snipped--
>
>
>
>
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