[Coco] Slot Pack 3, MC-1, etc.

[Mike 0rtloff]

BEAUTIFUL image Charlie, if there's an archive site, they should put 
that up. It looks like the case & PCB are cherry, unlike mine which 
saw some 5 years of daily use.

The one you have is around 4 years newer than mine or, more 
accurately, the chips are newer & one of the 7406s on my board are 
replaced with a 7416 on yours (the 16 is tougher than the 06 as I recall)

Mine has 4 chips socketed in addition to the ROMs. Disto must have 
figured us for pretty clumsy Back In The Day ;)

BIG thanx for the help, Charlie!

Funny, even Howard Medical has no idea what their Slot Pack Three was 
and is *heh*

Peace!

=M0=



>Here you go. I hope the picture is god enough, the very top is cut off. If
>you need me to take it again, no problem.
>Let me know.
>http://www.geocities.com/chazbeenhad/MISC/distomc-1.jpg
>
>Charlie
>
>"Mike 0rtloff" <underserf at comcast.net> wrote in
>message news:20080708164139.2629720A33 at qs281.pair.com...
> > Heya List!!
> >
> > Been a long time since I last posted on any kind of list. Truth be known,
> > I'd forgotten about the CoCo List, but lurked on the UseNet NGs for the
> > last decade or so... Bear with me if there's some formatting thing I
> > missed or some strange s/w requirement before posting ;)
> >
> > Getting my CoCo system(s) back together, still have the entire set, and
> > spares (MC-10 to Coco3) but in the last 15 years, peripherals have gotten
> > mutilated (young children), destroyed (Northridge Quake) and just plain
> > lost in moves.
> >
> > First I'll try a few questions about the Howard Medical Slot Pack, Disto
> > MC-1 & the Tandy/RS 26-3129 controller.
> >
> > ( I'm no engineer or systems analyst, but I fancy myself a decent
> > troubleshooter and lead fumes don't scare me ;))
> >
> > 1. Anyone have an =image= of the Howard Medical Slot Pack 3, mine is
> > missing a chip. I may have let somebody have it like 10 years ago, the
> > little sticker I put (noting what chip it was) there fell off and I'd like
> > to get the thing going again, I have the manual somewhere, but it never
> > had a schematic or chip list anyway.
> >
> > 2, My Disto MiniController-1 died about 94, an indirect result of the
> > Northridge quake. I've replaced all the socketed chips (save for the
> > 6ms/DS modded DECB from Disto) but again, not sure of the placement, a
> > graphic of the PCB would be just the ticket. The jumpers on the MC-1 were
> > always a mystery as well.
> >
> > 3rd, and last question - It's been a long time, I ran OS/9 exclusively
> > when I was real active but forgot a lot of the techniques I used. Can the
> > 26-3129 support DS 360k drives at all? Any hard/software hacks to make it
> > so?
> >
> > Enuff annoying you all for now, and BIG thanx in advance!
> >
> > =Mike 0=
> >
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