[Coco] Adapter from Coo3 to SVGA

[L. Curtis Boyle]

On Sun, 03 Apr 2005 18:05:08 -0400 (EDT), <RJRTTY at aol.com> wrote:

> In a message dated 4/3/05 4:52:55 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> leonard23 at verizon.net writes:
>
> << I will not be able to attend the fest, but I am interested in this  
> unit.
>  Could I get some more info on it, like cost? >>
>
>      OK.   The final price for the unit after the initial 10 boards are  
> all
> sold will be in around $70 to $75 dollars.    I am pricing the
> first 10 units at $45 dollars to help promote the fest and
> because the first people who buy it will be a "test" of the unit to
> find any long term problems that might arise.   Everyone will get
> an unconditional money back garauntee if something happens
> with the unit whenever it was bought.     $45 also recovers the
> price of the PC boards.    I expect no problems tho because I
> have done everything except throw it against a wall and it
> continues to work properly.
>
>           After the fest is over and I complete and distribute the
> the units I sell there, I will let everyone here know when I am
> open for business.  (shouldn't take too long)
>
>           During use the unit connects with the coco3 via the RGB port
> using a cable identical to the cable sold at cloud 9  which most
> use to connect to the old Magnavox and other  monitors.     So,
> if you already have one you won't need to buy another.      I will
> be supplying them too of course.    The VGA cable from the
> SVGA monitor will connect directly to the unit via VGA socket.
> The converter will also connect to the cassette port of the coco3
> using the original cassette tape recorder cable already used on all
> coco's.    So, a lot of people will probably already have that as well.
> I will also try to scrounge up as many as I can find to include it
> with each converter.
>
>           The software is a very short and simple basic
> program that is loaded and run once to initiallize the converter.
> After that you can disconnect the cassette cable and not need it
> anymore except if power is lost to the converter for a long time.
> You can leave the power  to the converter on when you power down
> the coco3 and attachments without causing harm.   I think the current
> draw is about 200 ma. (in front of the voltage regulator).
>
>         And that's about it.   If you have any other questions
> just ask and I will answer them here for everyone to read.
>
> Roy
>

     I would be interested as well... and, I may be able to write a quick  
OS9/Nitros9 version of your initialization program as well, once I get my  
machine back up and running.


-- 
L. Curtis Boyle