[Coco] Single board Pentium computer... "CoCo4" or Drivewire server material?

[Roger Taylor]

At 11:03 AM 12/11/2009, you wrote:
>Frank, it's just a SBC intended to be used in a passive backplane 
>environment. I've got a couple of similar things set up, and if you 
>can locate a proper case and backplane for it, you can have a nice 
>lunchbox-sized ISA/PCI based PC.
>
>The one I have is far too slow to do anything useful except run some 
>very old DOS games (which is all I use it for)


The coolest thing I've seen yet is a Compaq IA-1 Internet Appliance 
terminal running as a CoCo emulator.  I hope to get NitrOS-9 Level II 
working on it in 2010 so the IA-1 boots up directly into it.  Coming 
up with things to do with it after that is another story.  :)

There might not be an easy way to get data in and out of the IA-1 
from MS-DOS/Vavasour or Keil emulators except for the CF card itself 
where everything including the emulator is stored.

I have mine set up to boot into the CoCo 3 screen on power-up, so it 
looks like some new type of CoCo with wireless keyboard.



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~ Roger Taylor