[Coco] Sneak peek

[Roger Taylor]

At 08:12 AM 2/15/2009, you wrote:
>For myself, I would need to use a Y-cable for a FDC (26-3029) with
>your Bluetooth version of the pak to allow use of real floppy drive.
>Since I don't have an MPI or equivalent.
>
>Hasn't the patent expired on the MPI design so someone can replicate
>that thing and put it into production again?
>
>Regards,
>Ryan Pritchard


The paks would conflict since they both have DOS ROMs in 
them.  Hopefully your controller ROM is socketed to make it 
easier.  If you remove my EPROM you'll knock the pak down to hardware 
only and miss all the cool bells and whistles.

As for an MPI, if you'll notice all my efforts are aimed at 
preserving the CoCo unit itself.  It's always been harder to find 
CoCo add-ons than it is to find a bare CoCo.  If you could take a 
bare CoCo and the simplest form of hardware needed (except for a PC) 
to make the CoCo think it's using real floppy drives, ROM Paks, 
printers, etc. I'd say that is the best idea yet to help keep the 
CoCo in use by the most people.

-- 
Roger Taylor

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