[Coco] Educate me about Y-Cables

Mathieu Chouinard chouimat at gmail.com
Fri Feb 20 15:49:42 EST 2015


A minimultipak would be nice :)

On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 3:48 PM, David Ladd <davidwladd at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well most of the Y-Cable's I have seen have 3 slots.
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> One of the things that limited the Y-Cable was buffering and power stress
> on the CoCo3's power supply.
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> 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.
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> That's my 2cents worth though :D
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> On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 2:44 PM, Zippster <zippster278 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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?
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>> - Ed
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>> > On Feb 20, 2015, at 1:48 PM, Joe Grubbs <jsgrubbs at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>> > 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?
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>> > 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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