[Coco] Its Alive!

[Christopher Smith]

Ah, I've never seen a 1M upgrade, so... :)

Chris

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> From: "Bill Pierce" <ooogalapasooo at aol.com>
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Sent: Wednesday, October 9, 2013 6:46:45 PM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Its Alive!
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> 
> Chris, yep, I know they're small. My Coco 3 has NO room above the MB,
> as the dist 1 meg has all that space and it needs all the "air" it
> can grab, the fan and keyboard interface take up half of what "was"
> the area under the keyboard. The fan's 2" x 2" inches and the
> interface about 4" x 2" inches So I have about half that space left
> and I know there's plenty of room there for a PI.
> 
> Bill Pierce
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Smith <csmith at wolfram.com>
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Wed, Oct 9, 2013 7:04 pm
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Its Alive!
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Bill Pierce" <ooogalapasooo at aol.com>
> > To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 8, 2013 9:53:24 PM
> > Subject: Re: [Coco] Its Alive!
> > 
> > 
> > Ed, we want pictures... :-)
> > It would be nice to see how you have it set up.
> > I do intend on going this route sometime in the future if I can get
> > my hands on one.
> > Since my Coco 3 has an eagle keyboard interface (external), I have
> > lots of room where the keyboard used to be and that would be a
> > perfect place to fit an RPI. I have a panel installed in the big
> > keyboard hole and a fan already mounted inside (needed for the
> > disto
> > 1 meg). Once it's set up right, it could be run headless. Just have
> > it boot linux on poweron, then autorun dw. The client side
> > (NitrOS-9) software to control all aspects of dw is already in
> > developement and close to finished and plans for the RSDOS
> > equivalent is in planning. As Aaron always says, anything that can
> > be done from the GUI, can be done from the Coco.
> 
> You _really_ don't need that much room for the Pi.  I'd bet you could
> install it
> right inside a CoCo with no modifications at all.  Just hang it from
> the lid or
> something over the mainboard.  To give you some idea of the scale, I
> have one at
> work.  I've hacked up an old PC keyboard and installed the Pi inside
> of it; it
> has a reset button soldered onto the back, a power cord and a DVI
> cable coming
> out of it, and an extra USB hub installed inside with some externally
> facing
> ports and an 802.11 wireless adapter...
> 
> These things don't need much room at all.
> 
> Chris
> 
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