[Coco] USB cable powered CoCo 3 ???

[Roger Taylor]

At 12:00 PM 5/26/2010, you wrote:




>For your circuit, add a power schotky to the 5 volt line so external usb
>power cannot feed back and do that, it is considered a very dangerous thing
>to allow.

It was only a temporary connection.  That pin isn't even connected now.

But it was cool watching the PC power the CoCo to some degree.  Now 
if the CoCo power is unplugged and the PC's power is safe for the 
CoCo then there's something there for a rainy day project.

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~ Roger Taylor