[Coco] Back to the COCO

[Brian Blake]

2017 is starting out to be a sucky year for S/SC's then, lol.


On 1/4/2017 3:43 PM, Mark Marlette wrote:
> Nope, guessing there are more than one then! :)  :( Mark Marlette
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>        From: Brian Blake <random.rodder at gmail.com>
>   To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>   Sent: Wednesday, January 4, 2017 2:36 PM
>   Subject: Re: [Coco] Back to the COCO
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> I'm guessing that would be Joe Joe on Facebook... ;)
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> On 1/4/2017 3:24 PM, Mark Marlette wrote:
>> Ed and Jim both have good advice here.
>> I just was contacted by a customer that plugged in a Orch-90 pak and his CC3 no longer works.
>> Could be anything of course but highly coincidental  that his CC3 no longer works.
>> Guessing the CPU is toast and that something in the pak blew the CPU.
>> Happens more often that one thinks. :(  Regards,
>> Mark Marlette
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>>          From: Zippster <zippster278 at gmail.com>
>>    To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>>    Sent: Wednesday, January 4, 2017 1:04 PM
>>    Subject: Re: [Coco] Back to the COCO
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>> Yes, just to put the Pro-Tector in in the first place…  :)
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>> But, there is value in knowing you’re getting clean, buffered signals
>> at the cart port if you’re going to be plugging in all kinds of experimental
>> weirdness.  It may save some head-scratching…
>>
>> - Ed
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>>> On Jan 4, 2017, at 12:47 PM, RETRO Innovations <go4retro at go4retro.com> wrote:
>>> <snip
>>> Of course, the contrary in the group will counter that the non-socketed '09 owner will have to deal with the annoyance of unsoldering now or later, and later may never happen, which is fair, but if you run the odds and fail, Murphy will make sure you're broken when you have no soldering iron and no one to help.
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