[Coco] Of Multi Pak Interfaces...

[Rogelio Perea]

With the recent trend on the MPIs becoming a hot item on Ebay (for one
on-line selling venue), I wonder how those who have an MPI on active duty
are using it for. Radio Shack pushed the MPI first as a convenient way to
switch between Paks. With the accessories that came later the MPI 4 slots
could be taken as not enough ;-)

I have two on MPIs duty, one with an F board (a 3024 MPI) and one with a
CoCo (upgraded 3124). The setup on both is almost the same:

Slot 4 - Disk Controller , a 3029 for the CoCo 1 and a FD-502 for the 3
Slot 3 - Speech and Sound pak on the CoCo 1, Rulaford Research MIDI on the 3
Slot 2 - Orchestra 90 on both for the most time, sort of the wild card slot
for both CoCo setups
Slot 1 - CoCo SDC, has become the mainstay on both MPIs

Beyond this I don't do much Pak swapping, maybe an occasional RS232 here or
there, a game once in a while (many on SDC images nowadays). Can say the
list above is the official setup.


-- RP