[Coco] A new idea for a CoCoSDC expander

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 15 October 2014 00:42:16 Steve Ostrom did opine
And Gene did reply:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Pierce via Coco
> Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2014 10:41 PM
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Subject: Re: [Coco] A new idea for a CoCoSDC expander
> 
> Ed, as far as I know, no one has ever built and tested?John's 8 slot
> expansion, or his 4-slot RS "clone" for that matter. I don't think John
> ever built one himself. He just did the design. He disappeared right
> after he made those posts to coco3.com. He also had Orch90, RS232, and
> FDC clones as well.
> 
> --------------------------------
> 
> Bill, if this is the same John (little John) I used to communicate
> with, he didn't really "disappear".  He was very ill.  My guess is
> that he died of that illness, or is still too ill to communicate.  He
> had a great love for the Coco.  John sent me about 30 disks he had
> removed the copy protection from in a very unique way, as well as some
> of his hardware designs to review.  Unfortunately, I'm a software
> person, and was not able to help him review his designs.  This was
> many years ago.  I remember getting an e-mail from his Dad after he
> didn't reply to several e-mails from me, also named John (big John,
> IIRC), telling me of his illness.  I don't remember if I heard from
> little John again later.  It would be a great loss if he did succumb
> to that illness.
> 
> --- Steve ---

I think we all would like to be updated on that.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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