[Coco] Multipak redesign/replacement (was: Educate

[Pere]

hello,
I totally agree with you Al.
Most of the projects suffer this kind of problem. A lot of people, who will 
not participate in the project, have lots of good ideas
but wanting to accomplish most of them is a guarantee to failure.
Someone has to put limits to the project and, as you said, make a minimal 
first approach that is a good starting point for
most of the users and later, other versions could be designed and built
Keep it as simple as possible!

cheers
pere

Ps I own an MPI but would like to have something that could stay behind the 
computer, not attached at his right side
Probably a simple buffered cable would be enough for me, but I love to 
listen to other's ideas too


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Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2015 09:52:14 -0500
From: Al Hartman <alhartman6 at optonline.net>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Subject: Re: [Coco] Multipak redesign/replacement (was: Educate
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What's really needed for a first release is a multi-pak clone that runs off
a 5v Mini-USB power supply. It could have lights showing which slot was
active, and for power. I wouldn't go further than that.

It could have an optional buffered cable extender so it doesn't have to hang
off the right side of the Coco, but could go behind it.

Once that is debugged and is 100%, perhaps thought could be given to adding
things to it like a high speed DW port.

Just my .2 cents. Take a lesson from the Coco 4 tries, where people argued
about features and never got anything accomplished.

-[ Al ]-