[Coco] Velcro Drives

[Ward Griffiths]

On Friday 05 December 2003 12:08 pm, James C. Hrubik, Sr. wrote:
> ROFL.  Don't do that when I'm drinking coffee!  Brings to mind all
> the strange ways I had my system set up.  What if... an online book
> were written -- The Compleat CoCo -- containing sections on getting
> started, how to connect drives, what monitors to use, how to upgrade,
> hardware projects, etc.  All the bits and pieces that are scattered
> through a million postings to the list.  If they were somehow
> collected and organized, then the book published and mirrored on
> several sites...

Not just Color Computers.  80% of my stuff is held in place by Velcro 
because I always lose the case screws and besides a "full-height" space 
in a PC-style chassis (my main machine has three such that can't be 
used for removable media) will hold several modern hard drives if you 
ignore the screw holes.  I could fit a serious Beowulf Cluster of 
modern notebooks inside the case of the Kaypro 16 I've got here, 
especially if I dumped the CRT and kluged in an LCD.  Sort of tempting.  
But the first generation Compaq chassis is reserved for a "portable" 
OS-9 system once I get the right replacement tube.  It'll be pure Coco 
with every hardware enhancement I can get, not an emulation -- I can do 
emulation much lighter and cheaper and prettier with a Vaio running 
'doze, but I won't run 'doze anywhere I have a choice and I seem to be 
incompetent to get xmame running with Linux.  I recall the first PC 
case Coco conversion I saw -- I think it was in Long Beach and Marty 
had built it, but there's some senescence so I could be wrong on who 
and/or where.
-- 
Ward Griffiths				wdg3rd at comcast.net

... but it wasn't easy, because doubt is less easily dispelled than
illusion, and with doubt come tentative half-measures -- and nothing
worthwhile has ever been accomplished by tentative half-measures.
		Vlad Taltos, _Issola_, (by Steven Brust, P.J.F.)