[Coco] Educate me about Y-Cables

[David Ladd]

Well most of the Y-Cable's I have seen have 3 slots.

One of the things that limited the Y-Cable was buffering and power stress
on the CoCo3's power supply.

So if if a board was made usefulness might be at least 3 slots and some
form of buffing to prevent damage to the coco and also a external power
supply input might help with coco power supply strain.

That's my 2cents worth though :D



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|David Ladd|
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On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 2:44 PM, Zippster <zippster278 at gmail.com> wrote:

> We should really make a small board for this purpose.
> What connections are necessary?  Just a straight through connection from
> the
> cartridge port to 2 connectors?
>
> - Ed
>
> > On Feb 20, 2015, at 1:48 PM, Joe Grubbs <jsgrubbs at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I've seen a number of references to people using Y-cables to facilitate
> the use of more than one program pak. Is there a vendor for these? If not,
> is there a description of how to make one?
> >
> > What kind of paks can someone use simultaneously with one of these? I
> was always under the impression that paks could only be operated one at a
> time (hence the selector switch on the MPI), however a Y-cable seems to
> imply this isn't always the case.
> >
> >
> >
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