[Coco] CoCo 3

[Mark Marlette]

Gustavo,


I did reply prior to my vacation but your SPAM filter acceptance procedure must not be working. 

I answered immediately prior to going on vacation as your request was timed with a visit to the US.

Regards,

Mark
http://www.cloud9tech.com.


________________________________
 From: Gustavo Ranaur <ranaur2010 at ranaur.net>
To: coco at maltedmedia.com 
Sent: Sunday, November 4, 2012 6:39 AM
Subject: [Coco] CoCo 3
 
Hi!

I have a CoCo 2 with many cartridges (Floppy Controller, RS-232 interface, 2 
floppy drives), and many games. Yesterday I tried to "ressurect" it but I got 
no luck. It turns on nicely, but there are many keys failing on the keyboard 
(that makes it uselesss).

So my questions are:

1) Where can I buy a refurbished CoCo 3? I live in Brazil, so it must be 
someone that ships internationally (none in ebay does :-()

It was my long childhood dream to have a CoCo 3 (I have only a CoCo 2).

I tried http://www.cloud9tech.com/ but noone answers in more than a week :'-(

2) If not, can I fix the keyboard it? Well, maybe making an USB Keyboard to 
CoCo keyboard interface (with Arduino maybe?)

3) Is there a place where I can buy some kind of cartridge to emulate a drive
from an SD Card? I googled a little bit and found many projects. Which are 
still working? DrivePak, SuperIDE, DriveWire4. Which one is best/works? (If 
there is a FAQ about this I couldn't find. Point me and I'll RTFM :-)

Thank you very much for helping a nostalgic CoCo owner!

Long live CoCo!



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