MyDesk Circa 199X
Pictures from my old backed-up website that now has PORN attached, someone's backup of my old stuff. Don't go there.
Here is my coco3 with:
NoCan-8MB
Custom keyboard
Got tired of trying to fix dying coco3 keyboards...:-)
4-high stack of hard-drives
Just using the top one for now
The next two drives are the normally used ones
Bottom one is for backups
3-high stack of floppy drives
/d0 = 80 tks DS-DD
/d1 = 80 tks DS-DD
/d2 = 80 tks DS-2HD or quad-density
Not visible CD-R on shelf above
PC-jr. monitor - with sound
Modified floppy controller (to do QD floppies)
Without case but has clear plastic cover.
Tiny-IDE controller
Follow the IDE cable back
Sitting at an angle w/ frosted cover over the chip (fragile!)
PLCC FlashROM - 28F020
Has 2 different CTRL-ALT-RESET pictures, one bart another a logo.
and 6 different CTRL-ALT-RESET boot-nitros9 options
PC-power supply
With lots of extra connectors and adapters!
Now showing:
The CD and Zip drives with their own IDE board, $FF5X.
I did get the CD drive to work in NitrOS-9 even though the buffer needs 2K of ram.
Here's a close-up:
Shows that NoCan-8mb board
That LED sticking out at the left is the 2MHz indicator
The other cables are serial and parallel ports
The 40-pin cable that the floppy and IDE controllers are plugged into
is going under the coco game slot where is another row of square pins attached
This "flips over the rows" and orients the pins for direct plug-in
All of my controllers have square pins soldered over those tinned connectors for reliability
This way nothing can slide crooked and cause really bad challenges :-)
The floppy controller is the +5v & +12V one
The LED's sticking out are hi/lo-density and side0/1 indicators
The controller chip is that Fujitsu MB8877A one
And of course a re-wired ROM
The keyboard connector has been removed and placed at the end of an 10 inch cable
That the keyboard cable plugs into (wow my english teacher would croak).
Custom Keyboard:
Not pretty but very functional, all hand-wired underneath.
Yes, the reset key works.
The cable goes from double-row 40-pins down to the extended coco keyboard connector
What? another use for spare IDE cables? Yes!
On the backside (other row of 20 pins) is reset wiring and spares
So, rebooting OS9/NitrOS-9 uses the bottom 3 left keys
This aluminum frame was punched out in a machine shop, key-switches and key-tops added in about 1990 and stored in a box until this year.
IdeZilla
Comments Welcomed!
Here is my coco3 with:
NoCan-8MB
Custom keyboard
Got tired of trying to fix dying coco3 keyboards...:-)
4-high stack of hard-drives
Just using the top one for now
The next two drives are the normally used ones
Bottom one is for backups
3-high stack of floppy drives
/d0 = 80 tks DS-DD
/d1 = 80 tks DS-DD
/d2 = 80 tks DS-2HD or quad-density
Not visible CD-R on shelf above
PC-jr. monitor - with sound
Modified floppy controller (to do QD floppies)
Without case but has clear plastic cover.
Tiny-IDE controller
Follow the IDE cable back
Sitting at an angle w/ frosted cover over the chip (fragile!)
PLCC FlashROM - 28F020
Has 2 different CTRL-ALT-RESET pictures, one bart another a logo.
and 6 different CTRL-ALT-RESET boot-nitros9 options
PC-power supply
With lots of extra connectors and adapters!
Now showing:
The CD and Zip drives with their own IDE board, $FF5X.
I did get the CD drive to work in NitrOS-9 even though the buffer needs 2K of ram.
Here's a close-up:
Shows that NoCan-8mb board
That LED sticking out at the left is the 2MHz indicator
The other cables are serial and parallel ports
The 40-pin cable that the floppy and IDE controllers are plugged into
is going under the coco game slot where is another row of square pins attached
This "flips over the rows" and orients the pins for direct plug-in
All of my controllers have square pins soldered over those tinned connectors for reliability
This way nothing can slide crooked and cause really bad challenges :-)
The floppy controller is the +5v & +12V one
The LED's sticking out are hi/lo-density and side0/1 indicators
The controller chip is that Fujitsu MB8877A one
And of course a re-wired ROM
The keyboard connector has been removed and placed at the end of an 10 inch cable
That the keyboard cable plugs into (wow my english teacher would croak).
Custom Keyboard:
Not pretty but very functional, all hand-wired underneath.
Yes, the reset key works.
The cable goes from double-row 40-pins down to the extended coco keyboard connector
What? another use for spare IDE cables? Yes!
On the backside (other row of 20 pins) is reset wiring and spares
So, rebooting OS9/NitrOS-9 uses the bottom 3 left keys
This aluminum frame was punched out in a machine shop, key-switches and key-tops added in about 1990 and stored in a box until this year.
IdeZilla
Comments Welcomed!
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