[Coco] An 8-Slot Multi-Pak Design for my Color Computer

[Little John (GIMEchip.com)]

Sure - 4 slots are easy: use 4 rather than 1 of 8 decoders to route CTS* and 
SCS* and use a 4 to 1 mux rather than an 8 to 1 to route CART*. That's 
pretty much it to make a 4-slot interface. All four slots of my tandy unit 
are occupied and I don't even have a cloud-9 SCSI or IDE yet - so I figured 
if it can happen to me, perhaps others might have the same situation.
-John
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Frank Swygert" <farna at att.net>
To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Monday, July 05, 2010 10:53 AM
Subject: Re: [Coco] An 8-Slot Multi-Pak Design for my Color Computer


> I've just got one question: what the heck are you going to do with EIGHT
> slots? 3-4 should be plenty. The last slot board that was built and sold
> (by a third party) only had three for the most common items (under OS-9
> anyway) -- floppy controller, hard drive controller, and RS-232 pak. I
> can see a fourth for miscellaneous items or a ROM pak -- maybe a
> wireless pak now, though I'd think that the wireless or a drivewire pak
> would replace a hard drive. But eight????  Can your design be easily
> pared down to four slots? Might be more practical for most.
>
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