[Coco] Educate me about Y-Cables

[S Klammer]

Likewise - re. mini-multipak... since we couldn't get sound features
shoe-horned into the SDC :)

Shain
On Feb 20, 2015 3:52 PM, "Joe Grubbs" <jsgrubbs at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Well cool... I'd want to use it for adapters/controllers specifically and
> not games, etc. I had envisioned using my CoCoSDC along with the RS232 pak
> or something (after removing the ROM from the RS232 pak of course). Was
> also thinking of doing surgery to my DCM pak--rip out the Modem part of it
> and install a serial to bluetooth or serial to WiFi board or something like
> that.
>
> If someone came up with a board design, I'd be the first in line to buy
> one. :)
>
>
> > Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 14:48:06 -0600
> > From: davidwladd at gmail.com
> > To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> > Subject: Re: [Coco] Educate me about Y-Cables
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
> > +----------+
> > |David Ladd|
> > +----------+
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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