[Coco] MM/1 and friends (was: "Historic" CD-i development systems...

[Roger Merchberger]

Rumor has it that KnudsenMJ at aol.com may have mentioned these words:
>
>As some of you know, the 68070 was also the CPU used in the MM/1
>(Multi-Media One) computer, one of the many "Coco4" candidates.  It came 
>as  a
>screw-it-together kit, bundled with Microware's OS/K (68000), including 
>the C  compiler,
>which was well beyond K&R but not quite ANSI.  You can read  more about it on
>my Web site

Always wanted one of those, but couldn't ever justify the price...

>One or two entrepreneurs in the Coco world did market an upgrade from the
>underpowered 68070 -- it used a 68306 or something like that.

Motorola Dragonball...

>   You replaced  the
>little CPU card with their card, and hopefully ran faster.  I never 
>got  the upgrade.

This is why I'd wondered why nobody ever (and something I wouldn't have 
minded doing, except that I'm not smart enough) ported OSK to the Palm 
platform... I'd bet it would just *rock* on my Sony Clie NR70.

But this is getting *way* offtopic... ;-)

Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger

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