[Coco] Disk Controllers

Danny Amborn slackware64 at embarqmail.com
Sun Dec 29 14:29:08 EST 2013


On Sun, 29 Dec 2013 13:58:26 -0500, Arthur Flexser <flexser at fiu.edu>
wrote:

>On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Mark Marlette
><mmarlette at frontiernet.net> wrote:
>> As the price is attractive, cutting a hole in the top of the cartridge is not........IMHO.
>>
>> The whole will be necessary or leave the top of the cartridge off.
>>
>> The DOS Adapter  uses a .031" board and low profile pins to achieve this. Even so, ours touches the top of the case.
>
>As far as the low-profile pins, I wonder if the adapter from Retro
>Innovations would clear the top if you shortened the pins slightly by
>clipping them with cutting pliers?  Of course, since they're currently
>unavailable, this is currently hypothetical.
>
>Art

What if you soldered the EPROM directly to the board of the PCB
adapter.  PCB version of course.

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Dan Amborn
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