[Coco] CoCo-X project

[mike delyea]

Its very nice and I'd like one, but I'm just too broke right now.  Also, as
Bill noted above, unless marketed differently it will only appeal to people
on the list here and it seems many of us on the list are having some sort
of financial difficulty lately.


On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Bill Gunshannon <billg999 at cs.uofs.edu>wrote:

>
> And now for my $.02.
>
> I thought the price was rather high and the expected delivery time
> far enough in the future for me to doubt it would ever happen.  As
> I said, I backed another project once.  It raised it's money very
> quickly.  It was a modest project top recreate something that had
> already been done 9and this, no design phase).  And at this point
> it is looking like it will be more than a year behind the projected
> date and that only if it doesn't just evaporate completely.
>
> While I really like the COCO, it is primarily for its ability to run
> OS-9.  I don't see myself doing much with the graphics as I don't have
> an artistic bone in my body so what I really need is a good bare 6809
> system to play with  One that supported a bus that could take the PAKs
> from the COC would be a real plus as well but to be honest, I have yet
> to see where any of those beyond the RS232 PAK are supported in OS-9
> even on the COCO.
>
> So there is MHO.  I hope the project succeeds, but I wold not be
> holding my breath waiting for it.  And if anyone decides to look
> into what I sayed above, my checkbook is waiting (who knows, maybe
> someone can come up with a single board 6809 system with a decent
> bus and otehrs can add a graphics processor that goes on the bus and
> can match the COCO graphics cpabilities although at this point I
> would think something better would be wanted.)
>
> bill
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