[Coco] The most bizarre thing

[Bill Gunshannon]

> why there is a 34 wire flat cable with an female edge connector on it
> then?

Well, I could speculate all night.....

An unfinished 8" floppy adapter.
An attempt at a floppy tape controller.
A robot controller.

The possibilities are endless.

Like I said, can't wait to learn wht the numbers on the chips are.

>
> but yes the wire seems to plug on an power olutlet.

If what I can see is intended to pulg directly into an AC outlet
I would guess it is a COCO destructor.  :-)  I know of no regulator
that could take 120VDC and regulate it down to 5V or even 12V without
generating more heat than my furnace in the basement.  And they don't
even have heatsinks.

bill

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> On 2013-05-14, at 8:16 PM, "Bill Gunshannon" <billg999 at cs.uofs.edu> wrote:
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>>
>>> dunno the wire is cut. i'll give more pics tomorrow
>>
>> By the big caps I can see what looks like a couple rectifier diodes
>> and some voltage regulators.  Looks like one big honkin brute force
>> power supply.
>>
>> Be interesting to learn wht the numbers on the chips are.
>>
>> I seriously don't see anything there that would be a disk emulator.
>>
>> bill
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 6:56 PM, T. Franklin <tim at franklinlabs.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I've had science projects in the fridge for 6 months that look better
>>>> than that. What are the big caps hooked too?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) [mailto:retrocanada76 at gmail.com]
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 05:26 PM
>>>> To: 'CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts'
>>>> Subject: [Coco] The most bizarre thing
>>>>
>>>> Got a coco2 for free with extra stuff and this bizarre unfinished
>>>> scienceproject.It connects to the floppy controller, but what is it ?
>>>> A
>>>> rom
>>>> based floppyemulator prototype ?pic.twitter.com/1SQqdqihux don't have
>>>> other photos as I will put my hands on it tomorrow.What could it be
>>>> this
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