[Coco] Coco Cartridge Prototyping Pak PCB

Thu Oct 9 14:27:34 EDT 2014

Hi Guys!
Sorry for all the trouble with the links folks.  Gene, I guess I'm one of
the users of mailers you are talking about since I use Outlook 2010.  I
really like it a lot.  Outlook performs well for me.  I use and prefer HTML
emails specifically because of links in the email.  Outlook makes it a lot
easier and cleaner to see.  I've never really liked text only email clients
because of how difficult it is to read an email that's an html encoded
email.  
I'll start using <...> around my links to help the text only email users
find the complete link.  It may take me a few times to remember, so please
be patient with me.  I would appreciate it.  I never really thought of all
that before.  I've always been able to gather a link together quite easily
from other people that got wrapped around on multiple lines, so I was not
aware of any difficulty.  I can also understand your apprehension to click
that html button, Gene.  I rely heavily on My Security software to protect
me!  Your advice as well as everybody's kind advice is always welcome.
Thanks everyone for pointing this out to me.  Sometimes I have to be hit
over the head with a 2x4!  :)  As I said before, please be patient with me.
I'll get it!   Take care my friends.

Kip Koon
computerdoc at sc.rr.com
http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Kip_Koon
http://computerpcdoc.com/

-----Original Message-----
From: Coco [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Gene Heskett
Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2014 10:23 AM
To: coco at maltedmedia.com
Subject: Re: [Coco] Coco Cartridge Prototyping Pak PCB

On Thursday 09 October 2014 04:29:52 Arthur Flexser did opine And Gene did
reply:
> Um, Gene, both of your examples give me a 404 error, using Gmail.
> Generally, I have no problem with links that wrap over more than one 
> line, so it seems possible that the <..> surrounding the link is 
> actually CAUSING the problem for me.  (The part starting with ak%20 
> isn't highlighted, indicating it wasn't seen as part of the link.)
> 
> Art
> 
Damn emailers. That space I did not see is illegal in a URL.
That should have been Pak%20.

The %20 is how most spaces are encoded.

Honest, I was trying to be helpful, but its difficult when trying to fix the
mistakes that the use of a web mailer, as opposed to a text based client do
to the output.

rant:  I as you might expect, have no use for so-called email clients that
wrap a 2 sentence, 300 character reply with punctuation marks that are
perfectly legal, up in 3 to 10 kilobytes of html markup that when viewed
with a text only viewer, takes the human eye 10x longer to read because of
all the html markup crap injected and that to make sense of what the person
wrote, has to be mentally removed.

And yes, kmail can display html encoded messages, but they MUST be properly
MIME encoded too before I even get a button to allow me to enable the html
translation back into readable text.  Not all "web mailers" do that, and
fewer yet get it right.

Maybe its just me, being the now 80 yo curmudgeon I am, but folks who post
using a web mailer because its pretty, don't grok that it is in fact pretty
ugly unless viewed by that same web mail service because each has its own
version of whats correct.

Besides that, automatically decoding an html message also opens your system
up to all the various and sundry web based attack methods, methods that I
generally don't worry about because I don't click on the show html button
UNLESS I know the sender.

Thats just plain good practice. In 16 years of running linux, I have had a
router or 2 bricked, but that still didn't gain the attackers a path into my
machines.  And I don't worry about it other than to replace the router with
one that can be re-flashed to dd-wrt.  No one gets thru it that isn't privy
to the username/password used, and even then I would have to enable access
to it from a remote address.  That isn't going to happen.

/rant
More below.
> On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 4:15 AM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> > On Thursday 09 October 2014 01:05:21 Bill Nobel did opine
> > 
> > And Gene did reply:
> > > Hi Kip,  I donأ¢â‚¬â„¢t know if it is just me, but the links you 
> > > provide to dropbox give me error 404? something happening on my 
> > > part? others seem to see it.
> > > 
> > > Bill Nobel
> > 
> > That is probably because we haven't trained Kip to use a set of <> 
> > around the link, which indicates a complete, long enough to get line 
> > wrapped, link.
> > 
> > > > On Oct 8, 2014, at 11:01 PM, Kip Koon <computerdoc at sc.rr.com>
> > > > wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > Hi Guys!
> > > > Here is the second version of the Coco Cartridge Prototyping Pak 
> > > > with all your suggestions.  How did I do Ed?  Not only have I 
> > > > included the links to the renderings from OSHPark, but I have 
> > > > also included the Schematic and PCB layout in PDF form since so 
> > > > many people are expressing an interest in this project and have 
> > > > made suggestions. The following links are the top and bottom 
> > > > renderings of the PCB from OSHPark.

I have now disabled word wrapping, which meant I had to take 10 minutes to
re-format my message above by hand, and will try fixing these again.

> > Examples:
> > 
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/yy17jwamkejx94s/Coco%20Cartridge%20Prototyping%20
Pak%20-%20Top.png?dl=0>
> > 
> > Should just work, and
> > 
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/euo6vq5ukkr8gvu/Coco%20Cartridge%20Prototyping%20
Pak%20-%20Bottom.png?dl=0>
> > 
> > When you post long URL's, please use the <> convention and it will 
> > work for lots more people, Kip.
> > 
> > > > Here are the links to the schematics and the PCB layout.  The 
> > > > first schematic has all the decode logic.  All the second 
> > > > schematic has are the holes.  The third link of course is the 
> > > > PCB layout from Eagle Pro. V6.4.0.
> > 
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/amvqf8nf5xfvznl/Coco%20Cartridge%20Prototyping%20
Pak%20sch%201.pdf?dl=0>
> > 
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/pu3o328c8aolm9d/Coco%20Cartridge%20Prototyping%20
Pak%20sch%202.pdf?dl=0>
> > 
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/0736lzhlvs7w1of/Coco%20Cartridge%20Prototyping%20
Pak%20brd.pdf?dl=0>

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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