Barberd: Created page with "This was a "non-profit effort" by the Glenside Computer Club to produce these cards. It provides an IDE interface for the Color Computer. The manual is available at https://colorcomputerarchive.com/repo/Documents/Manuals/Hardware/Glenside%27s%20IDE%20Adapter%20Manual%20%28GCCC%29.pdf Drivers are available on NitrOS-9 and under HDB-DOS. HDB-DOS will split the IDE into several virtual floppy drives for use in Basic. The schematics are available at https://color..."

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Created page with "This was a "non-profit effort" by the Glenside Computer Club to produce these cards. It provides an IDE interface for the Color Computer. The manual is available at https://colorcomputerarchive.com/repo/Documents/Manuals/Hardware/Glenside%27s%20IDE%20Adapter%20Manual%20%28GCCC%29.pdf Drivers are available on NitrOS-9 and under HDB-DOS. HDB-DOS will split the IDE into several virtual floppy drives for use in Basic. The schematics are available at https://color..."

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This was a "non-profit effort" by the Glenside Computer Club to produce these cards. It provides an IDE interface for the Color Computer.

The manual is available at https://colorcomputerarchive.com/repo/Documents/Manuals/Hardware/Glenside%27s%20IDE%20Adapter%20Manual%20%28GCCC%29.pdf

Drivers are available on [[NitrOS-9]] and under [[HDB-DOS]]. HDB-DOS will split the IDE into several virtual floppy drives for use in Basic.

The schematics are available at https://colorcomputerarchive.com/repo/Documents/Manuals/Hardware/Glenside's%20IDE%20Adapter%20Schematics%20(GCCC).pdf

The board does not have a control chip; it basically has buffers, some addressing logic, and some latching to convert the CoCo's 8 bit bus to the IDE's 16 bit interface. Most IDE logic is done in the software driver.

The board also included the ability to add in two cartridge slots, making this a small, non-buffered and non-powered [[Multi-Pak Interface|MPI]].

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