[Coco] CoCo4! 50% done!

[Steven Hirsch]

On Tue, 4 Feb 2014, Frank Swygert wrote:

> Ok then. Where can I buy one and how much?
>
> Strange that if it is already available and low cost that few people have
> bought one. There should be no more discussions of a CoCo3/4 since it
> already exists.
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>
> You can buy a DE1 board right here for $150 (+shipping):
> http://www.terasic.com.tw/cgi-bin/page/archive.pl?No=83
>
> So why hasn't everyone went out and bought one? Well, it's not everyone's 
> idea of a CoCo4. It's faster, but has no extra features -- no better graphics 
> or anything like that. You can't use old peripherals like disc drives with 
> it. Storage is strictly on SD card, with software emulation of the disc 
> controller (I might be mistaken here...).

Not quite.  The FPGA CoCo 3 can speak DriveWire over a serial port - at 
430Kbps, I might add.



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