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   Message 5,190 of 5,684   
   Bill Gunshannon to Charles Richmond   
   Re: COCO Question   
   24 Mar 10 15:57:12   
   
   From: billg999@cs.uofs.edu   
      
   In article ,   
   	Charles Richmond  writes:   
   > Bill Gunshannon wrote:   
   >> Does anyone here know where I might be able to find prototyping boards   
   >> that would plug into the expansion slot of a Tandy Color Computer?   
   >> I have been reading lately and have gotten interested in looking at   
   >> designing an IDE controller for the COCO.  I actually think it could   
   >> be done fairly easy, at least for use with OS/9.   
   >>   
   >   
   > I can *not* help you, Bill... but your plan sounds great!!!   
   >   
   > Have you considered designing a flash card interface instead???   
   > COC programs are *so* small that you can get a boatload on a 1 gig   
   > flash card.   
      
   Don't know anything about flash.  Saw an example of a simple TRS80   
   to IDE interface ansd thought it might work for the COCO as well.   
   And, ya see, I have this stack of IDE disks just sitting here crying   
   for a computer to talk to them.  :-)   
      
   bill   
      
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