[Coco] Anyone else collect other old computers/game consoles beside the Coco?

[gene heskett]

On Saturday, August 27, 2011 12:35:36 PM Aaron Wolfe did opine:

> On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 11:36 AM, gene heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> > As for DW on a 68k board, I have not checked, but since I expect the
> > m68k versions of linux, uclib equipt because most of those machines
> > do not have a memory manager chip at all, might be able to build
> > java, at which point DW4 written in java might accidentally work.  I
> > think it is something that should be investigated, and will if and
> > when I can get an external PSU cobbled up for the A4k/060 machine I
> > brought home from the tv station a year ago.  Maybe this winter when
> > the garage workshop has been commandeered by Dee & the Toyota.  Right
> > now its mid-project, making seating/storage benches to go around a
> > neighbors nearly 10 foot long dining room table. ;-)
> 
>  think we were talking about adding DW client capabilities to
> OS9/68k, not running the DW server on a 68k board.
> However, thats interesting too.  Although theoretically the DriveWire
> 4 server can run on anything that have a JVM,
> I'm not sure if a 68k would be practical.  The smallest/slowest
> computer I have run the server on so far is a linksys router
> which has a 133Mhz, 32 bit ARM processor and 8MB ram.  It actually
> works fine, but certainly slow to start up and uses
> nearly all the available ram and good chunk of CPU time.  I think much
> less and we'd hit the point where even if it technically
> is running, its too slow to be actually useful.
> 
> -Aaron

Good point, that aspect I had not considered.  In this case the target 
machine has 16 megs of ram, and the 68060 which runs at 50Mhz, is a dual 
core processor that has a simplified op-code map that uses software IRQ's 
to emulate about 95% of the more instruction complete 030-040 baby brothers 
instruction set.  However it might be an interesting experiment, if there 
is a byte-code java runtime available for it.

One of those cases where I have got to go into production if I can find 
some suitable artwork, and make some round tuit's.  ;-)

Cheers, gene
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