[Coco] Cheap LCD for CoCo???

James Hrubik jimhrubik at earthlink.net
Mon Dec 26 20:20:08 EST 2005


Looks like they have all kinds of DIN stuff, too!

On Dec 26, 2005, at 8:07 PM, farna at att.net wrote:

> Halted Electronics (http://www.halted.com/) has Fujitsu Styleu 1000  
> (486/DX4 100 -- see http://gradzone.com/fuji/st1000specs.htm for  
> details) pen based computers with a 8" diagonal 640x480 monochrome  
> screen for $29.95!!! They don't have a hard drive or power supply,  
> and I doubt the battery is any good, but the price is incredible  
> for a hacker! They have one PCMCIA-ATA type III slot for a hard  
> drive, and another that will take two type II or another type III  
> card. The Type III HD is the only HD it has, no internal. Other  
> than that it has a standard 9 pin serial and a standard parallel  
> port, PS2 keyboard port (just one -- use splitter for a mouse), an  
> external monitor (standard VGA connector (will support 600x800  
> graphics on external monitor) and an external floppy connector. The  
> floppy connector only seems to work with Fujistus drives though,  
> something probably hard to find. But a PCMCIA USB port card would  
> solve that! They were made to run Win95, and will run DOS. Only has 8M
>  B RAM, upgradeable to 32 MB. I don't know what kind of RAM chips/ 
> modules are used.
>
> This just looks like something a CoCo hacker would like for parts  
> if nothing else. Run FreeDOS on it and make it an OS-9 terminal!  
> Replace the CoCo keyboard with this thing if you have a ROM in the  
> CoCo that will auto boot OS-9 and you'll have a supper compact  
> system!!
> --
> Frank Swygert
> Publisher, "American Independent
> Magazine" (AIM)
> For all AMC enthusiasts
> http://farna.home.att.net/AIM.html
> (free download available!)


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