[Coco] PC in a Coco case project questions

[wdg3rd at comcast.net]

Power supply and such, you might have to use laptop components to fit, though I haven't researched low-profile desktop PC components  lately since I use towers, as tall as I can get them, I want POWER!!! and to hell with the green twits.  (My favorite case, and someday I'll build half a dozen CoCo 3s into one, was the AT&T 6486 big box that was built by Intel, though the previous 6386 built by Ollivetti is a close second).

Aside from having to gouge holes in the back of the old grey case (or were you planning a CoCo 2 or 3 case? -- you didn't mention, but you'd still have to gouge holes and build board mounting spots) the keyboard is probably the trickiest bit.
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 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Ben Jimenez <ben_jimenez at yahoo.com>
> Yes, I was wondering about the keyboard, and also the
> power supply would have to be external (outside) the
> case, like some of the laptops have. 
> 
> 
> --- Rod Barnhart <rod.barnhart at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 3:06 PM, Ben Jimenez
> > <ben_jimenez at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > I would like to try and put a pc into a coco case.
> > I
> > > was wondering just how big of a project this would
> > be
> > > to get working. I've not done this type of project
> > > before. I've built PC's old and new. I thought it
> > > would be neet to make a emulated Coco in a coco
> > case.
> > > Has anyone done this before? I've seen alot of
> > Coco
> > > projects on the net.
> > 
> > I don't know if it's been done before, but it should
> > be fairly easy to
> > do using a small form-factor motherboard. Even
> > interfacing the
> > original CoCo keyboard shouldn't be too challenging.
> > 
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