[Coco] Multipak redesign/replacement / New CoCo...

[Al Hartman]

Chips can always be scavenged off systems with bad RAM. bad keyboards, or 
other problems.

I hate to say that some of the chips Bob Rosen sold back in the day were 
scavenged from used computers that were damaged in shipping, or had some 
other problem. We'd test the chips, trash the bad ones and resell the good 
ones.

I know I have one perfectly running Coco 2 here that is just missing a 
keyboard. Someday, I hope to find a good keyboard for it. I'm also looking 
for the company that made the HJL keyboards so I might be able to buy a 
keycap to replace the missing one on mine.

I love that keyboard!!!

-[ Al ]-

On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 2:16 PM, Zippster <zippster278 at gmail.com> wrote:

> They are readily available for 3 or 4 dollars each in qty through Utsource
> as is the SAM.  Granted, they will eventually be gone and will have to be
> replaced with modern programmable logic of some sort.
>
> - Ed
>
>
> > On Feb 23, 2015, at 11:12 AM, Louis Ciotti <lciotti1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Wouldn't the problem with a new mother board be access to the older IC's
> > namely the VDG and the 6809 itself?  These are not exactly stock
> components
> > anymore.