[Coco] CoCo emulation on a Compaq Internet Appliance?

[Diego Barizo]

I just remembered....
The port on the side is actually a PCMCIA. I had to use a CF to PCMCIA 
adapter...
Maybe other PCMCIA cards can be used? I seem to remember that it only 
has one slot that is needed for the CF card....

Diego


Roger Taylor wrote:
> At 02:50 AM 10/22/2007, you wrote:
>> Just bought the one on Ebay. didn't get as nice a deal as you did but 
>> hey. From what I've been reading its not CE but I could be wrong, 
>> when I get it I'll figure it out. There IS an older verison of VCC 
>> called POCO that was Windows CE but I haven't worked on it in a 
>> while. If it is CE guess whats getting pulled out or "retirement". 
>> Anyway when toys and time arrive I'll post something.
>> Frankly though with only 266Mhz to play with I'm thinking Keil's 
>> emulator would probably do a better job than VCC assuming it can boot 
>> dos. On the other hand an AMD 266 would be a socket 7 CPU with a 4X 
>> multiplyer. Might be upgradable If not to the full 100Mhz FSB at 
>> least an 83 Mhz overclock. Or perhaps a higher Multiplyer if the 
>> board really won't go higher that 66. Never seen one yet though. 
>> Again I'll need to muck around and let you know.
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> Great.  It really looks like the best candidate for an emulator 
> machine.  If everything can be put on a CompactFlash card that the 
> system can boot from, with enough work I see no reason why this can't 
> be turned into a fake CoCo, TRS-80 Model 1, etc.  That is, a separate 
> CF card could also be used for each vintage computer emulated, making 
> it so darn easy to run that it almost seems too good to be true.
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> I've never tried to boot into MS-DOS/DOS from any of my laptops that 
> have a CF port or memory stick slot.  I guess all we need is for the 
> CF card to work on the Compaq appliance and then stuff it with all the 
> CoCo "stuff" possible that the emulator can read.
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> I would absolutely crap a gold brick if I can get this thing to read a 
> USB floppy drive (from Keil's or JV's emulator) since I have at least 
> half of my CoCo stuff on 3.5's written from a real CoCo.  With the 
> BIOS reporting it can boot from Floppy A: or Hard Drive C:, and 
> knowing that there is NO floppy drive on the unit, it kinda sounds 
> obvious that it supports USB floppy drives BEFORE Windows takes over.
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