[Coco] Slot Pack 3, MC-1, etc.

[Charlie]

Here you go. I hope the picture is god enough, the very top is cut off. If 
you need me to take it again, no problem.
Let me know.
http://www.geocities.com/chazbeenhad/MISC/distomc-1.jpg

Charlie

"Mike 0rtloff" <underserf at comcast.net> wrote in 
message news:20080708164139.2629720A33 at qs281.pair.com...
> Heya List!!
>
> Been a long time since I last posted on any kind of list. Truth be known, 
> I'd forgotten about the CoCo List, but lurked on the UseNet NGs for the 
> last decade or so... Bear with me if there's some formatting thing I 
> missed or some strange s/w requirement before posting ;)
>
> Getting my CoCo system(s) back together, still have the entire set, and 
> spares (MC-10 to Coco3) but in the last 15 years, peripherals have gotten 
> mutilated (young children), destroyed (Northridge Quake) and just plain 
> lost in moves.
>
> First I'll try a few questions about the Howard Medical Slot Pack, Disto 
> MC-1 & the Tandy/RS 26-3129 controller.
>
> ( I'm no engineer or systems analyst, but I fancy myself a decent 
> troubleshooter and lead fumes don't scare me ;))
>
> 1. Anyone have an =image= of the Howard Medical Slot Pack 3, mine is 
> missing a chip. I may have let somebody have it like 10 years ago, the 
> little sticker I put (noting what chip it was) there fell off and I'd like 
> to get the thing going again, I have the manual somewhere, but it never 
> had a schematic or chip list anyway.
>
> 2, My Disto MiniController-1 died about 94, an indirect result of the 
> Northridge quake. I've replaced all the socketed chips (save for the 
> 6ms/DS modded DECB from Disto) but again, not sure of the placement, a 
> graphic of the PCB would be just the ticket. The jumpers on the MC-1 were 
> always a mystery as well.
>
> 3rd, and last question - It's been a long time, I ran OS/9 exclusively 
> when I was real active but forgot a lot of the techniques I used. Can the 
> 26-3129 support DS 360k drives at all? Any hard/software hacks to make it 
> so?
>
> Enuff annoying you all for now, and BIG thanx in advance!
>
> =Mike 0=
>
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