[Coco] RTC Needed

[Jason Reighard]

http://www.cocowares.com/item.php?nombre=Mini-MPI

On Dec 6, 2017 7:00 AM, "Francis Swygert" <farna at att.net> wrote:

> Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2017 18:34:32 -0800
> From: Steve Pedersen <666jacktheknife666 at gmail.com>
>
> So my chances are low bummer, I havent found anything from google yet.
> I guess It is not that hard to understand the lack of some vary basic
> hardware products for the coco. If 90% of the current coco users are only
> interested in playing RSdos games then the demand  for things like serial
> ports, mpi replacements ect just is not there.
> For my self I Intend to move as much as possible to useing my coco as my
> primary computer.
> If I could use my coco to telenet for bbsing and find a way to send and
> recieve email that Would be a huge step in that direction for me. I can
> dream and I can study and work to gain the skills nessary to make some of
> these things myself (I hope).
> ===============================================
> Some of the things you want are available... or at least schematics and
> boards so you can make them. There is an MPI replacement that was developed
> by a list member over the last year, but I can't recall any details. There
> should be serial port board plans/circuit board somewhere!
>
> I used my CoCo as my main computer for as long as possible. I think Delphi
> was the last computer service to have a true text only e-mail service. Read
> all my e-mail from them until... I think about 1998. After that it just
> wasn't practical. The Internet is too graphically oriented to do anything
> useful with a text only browser. E-mail has pretty much gone the same way,
> but you might find an acceptable solution for that.
>  Frank Swygert
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>  803-604-6548
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