[Coco] CocoSDC

[Salvador Garcia]

I assembled mine yesterday. My 100uF cap was labeled with the grey bar indicating polarity. Odd that your was not Mark. I had trouble with the resistor pack, I was not sure which was pin 1, but a quick search solved that.And I am always forgetting which LED lead is which, also searched that and found (must remember, short lead is "negative"). The crystal had a small dot, so I matched that with the silkscreened dot on the PCB. 

I just need my wife to double check all soldering to make sure I did not miss any. I had to strain my eyesight and believe I got them all, but better safe than sorry. I've always had a problem seeing little things close up. Once that is done I'll insert the 4 chips ad then wait till my trip in December to the location where my Coco I is stored. I be reading all available documentation since at this time I am not sure what to do with the CoCo SDC. I will post question here if any arise.

Aesthetically speaking, very nice board! Technically speaking... awesome!

Thank you Darren and Zippster. And also thanks to the person doing the production for the MPI plate. I don't have any posts corresponding to that thread handy and I can't remember your name, but your deed is well known :-). Salvador

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-----Original Message-----
From: Mark D. Overholser <apple2 at markoverholser.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Fri, Nov 7, 2014 1:02 am
Subject: Re: [Coco] CocoSDC


On 10/9/2014 09:17, Zippster wrote:
> Hi Darren (and group),
>
> << SNIP >>
>
> I’d like to make available to list members either…
>
> PCB’s and programmed chips to those who would like to assemble these 
themselves,
> or assembled boards for those that don’t.
>
> This would be done for as close to actual cost as possible.
>
> If this will work, I’d like to start collecting a list of who wants what, in 
order to gauge how
> many boa	rds will need to be ordered.
>
> - Ed
>
>


Darren A, Zippster ( and group )

Darren A, thanks for designing this SDC board!!!  Zippster, thanks for 
being Production Manager for another run of these SDC Boards!!!  A 
fantastic Kit, and an Incredible Price, for all that you get!!!!

I just picked up my Two SDC Kits from my Mail Box...  Spent an Hour and 
a Half, Part Checking, Test Fitting, and Soldering Components... 
Everything was Perfect!!!!  It Booted up the First Time..

( I only had to look at Zippster's Pictures to install the Electrolytic 
Capacitor correctly, since I am use to seeing little Negative Signs on 
my Caps, and these don't have them.. And I had to try the LED, before 
Soldering it in, That Cathode/Anode thing...  Turned it around, and then 
it Worked Fine...)   Then again, I have Hand Assembled boards like this 
for Work, so I knew what Pit-Falls to avoid, like starting with the 
Shortest Components, first, then the Taller Ones..

I am fairly new to CoCo's, it has just been a little over a year for me 
with a "stock" CoCo 3, and more recently, a "stock" 64K CoCo 2 with 
Extended Basic.  I still need to Buy Me/Make Me a Drive Wire Cable, but, 
in the mean time, I can use the SDC to copy Disk Images found on the 
'net to my Floppy's....

Very Many, Thanks Again......

MarkO

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