#: 10998 S10/OS9/6809 (CoCo)
    09-Jun-91  00:40:49
Sb: #10987-#Disto SC-II
Fm: Paul Rinear 73757,1413
To: David Betz 76704,47 (X)

    I just bought one; and am very pleased with the no halt controller. As I
type this online, a dsave is running in the background and I'm not missing any
typed characters.
    Anyway, the SC-II is a metal box about the same size as a Radio Shack
DCMpak. It plugs into the side of the Coco or into a multipak. The top unscrews
and the 4 in 1 board, amazingly enough, plugs upside down on top of the
controller board. You punch out a cut in the side of the cover, hook up some
cables, and screw the cover back on. The whole thing is easy to do and the
resulting package is small.
    You have to plug in an extra 9-volt adapter into a plug in the side of it
to run the new RS-232 port. Altogether you get two ribbon cables coming out the
top (floppy drive and SASI/SCSI), and two cables coming out the side (parallel
printer and RS-232) plus one little plug for power in the side.
    The software under OS-9 is easy to install too. I bought mine from Cocopro,
Ypsilanti, MI. The owner Dave is a very helpful fellow.

                                            Paul

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