[Coco] An 8-Slot Multi-Pak Design for my Color Computer

[Little John (GIMEchip.com)]

Frank,
In my case, I have FDC, ORCH90, Speech/Sound and B&B XT-RTC, so I'm all out 
of slots :-) One thing that does concern me: If 8 cartridges are present in 
the expansion bus, they may overload the buffers in the MPI (8 carts may 
exceed fanout capacity) - definitely something I need to look into.
-John

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Frank Swygert" <farna at att.net>
To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Monday, July 05, 2010 3:59 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] An 8-Slot Multi-Pak Design for my Color Computer


> Well, I see your point. I know a lot of people do have a lot of things 
> tied to their system. In your case I'd pull the old HDB-DOS pack out and 
> just use the SD drive pack and a 2GB card. Maybe a different card for OS-9 
> and DECB. But I'm not real familiar with the SD pack -- can it be equipped 
> with a ROM or load something like HDB-DOS and be used with DECB?
>
> ------------
> Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2010 12:44:41 -0400
> From: Brian<random.rodder at gmail.com>
>
> Maybe it's just me, but, I could easily use more than 4 slots.
> Currently, I've got my MPI loaded with a serial pack, sd drive pack,
> hdb-dos pack and a floppy controller.
>
> I still have an O90, S/S cart, The Voice and various ROM packs.
> Granted, not all have to be used at once, but, I think a unit that
> offers more than 4 slots would come in handy considering the new pack
> based hardware that's been developed.
>
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