[Coco] serial pak boards on ebay

[Roger Taylor]

At 11:19 AM 12/17/2010, you wrote:
>I see you have a couple of these boards back on eBay today.  Clearly 
>free shipping won't be possible to Canada, but would you consider 
>sending one here?
>
>Also, it was mentioned earlier that the 6551 was a hard item to find 
>(later identified at jameco), but where do you find the eb301 module?
>
>-Don


At this time, my stock of high-rated 6551 chips are reserved for 
pending pak orders.

The EB301...  first, some facts:  the EB301 module is the module I 
chose for a seamless/cable-replacement style bluetooth link (works 
like a charm), so the header on the serial board was arranged to mate 
with the key pins of the EB301.  The EB301 is not required to use my 
serial board for other uses.  When the signals are exposed like this, 
it makes for a flexible project pak.

Second, when the "A7" corporation shut down, they had a lot of EB301 
units in stock.  I have no clue today where these modules are, or 
anything else they sold.  I called the "CEO"'s cel phone numerous 
times and left voicemails offering to buy the remaining stock, and I 
have never received a call back.  I gave up.  When they show up on 
the internet somewhere, someday, I'll buy what I can to make some 
more paks (if the price is ideal).  Or the user can find their own 
module and just plug it into my board and it would become a wireless 
pak if the CoCoNet ROM is in the pak as well.

And last, everyone is welcome to experiment with other bluetooth 
modules that are 5v tolerant and I will consider equipping a new pak 
model with those, if ideal.  I'll also have to add some code to 
CoCoNet to support virtual drives over the link.



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~ Roger Taylor