[Coco] ADOS-3 (was: 26-3029 floppy disk controller.

[Arthur Flexser]

There were something like 4 boxes, with all sorts of hardware and assorted docs
for lots of software and hardware.  Several computers, disk drives, multipaks,
disk controllers, etc.  I have copies of all the ADOS stuff here;  it'd be just
a matter of locating it amongst all the cartons from my move.

Art

On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, tonym wrote:

> Art,
> 
> Do I have anything in those boxes that would help?
> How many boxes were there, by the way? Remember a friend picked
> them up for me....I only got a bag of disks, and 1 box.
> 
> I think if there's more, it's in his warehouse somewhere!!
> 
> Tony 
> 
> 
> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
> From: Arthur Flexser <flexser at fiu.edu>
> Reply-To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Date:  Wed, 18 Jan 2006 05:14:46 -0500 (EST)
> 
> >On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Roger Merchberger wrote:
> >
> >> Art,
> >> 
> >> What is the availability of Extended ADOS-3 & how much does it cost?
> >> 
> >> It's one of those things I'd always wanted back when I had no money and now 
> >> that I'm [1] getting back into the CoCo (looking for a desk for the CoCo3 & 
> >> CM8 right now...) it's something I'd really be interested in.
> >> 
> >> I have an EPROM burner & (I hope) a controller that can handle a 16K 
> >> image... altho one Disto Mini-Controller I have won't boot at all with a 
> >> ROM installed... odd. :-/
> >> 
> >> To the list:  Will an FD502 take a 16K ROM? IIRC, it was the only RS 
> >> controller that could take a 27c64 28-pin chip, but I don't know what it 
> >> would take to get a 27c128 shoehorned into one...
> >
> >I no longer sell Extended ADOS-3 (or ADOS-3, which is required by Ext. ADOS-3),
> >having disposed of all my CoCo stuff when I moved from Florida to New Jersey
> >last summer.  Feel free to pirate a copy from anyone who will give you one.
> >
> >The FD502, as I recall, will take a 27128 if you run a wire between the pin
> >corresponding to the highest address line of the chip over to the corresponding
> >pin of the edge connector.  Tandy for some reason grounded this pin of the chip,
> >so you also have to cut the trace connecting the pin to ground.  Instructions
> >are given in the Ext. ADOS-3 docs, which I don't have a copy of handy.  (This
> >modification doesn't affect the controller's compatibility with 8K ROMs.)  The
> >FD502 is thus the easiest Tandy controller, by far, to use with Extended ADOS-3,
> >though third-party controllers are better still, requiring no modification.
> >
> >Art
> >
> >
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