[Coco] Restuffing a CoCo chassis

[Allen Huffman]

> On Feb 12, 2015, at 9:57 AM, Joe Grubbs <jsgrubbs at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Anyway (sorry for the boring preface), I now have an empty CoCo2 chassis, and that has given me an idea. I was thinking of stuffing it with either a mini-ITX mobo or maybe some kind of system-on-a-chip computer (like a Raspberry Pi). I could fit a small form factor laptop style keyboard, install a card reader in place of the cartridge slot, etc. The more I think about it, the more I want to do it. Has anyone else attempted this before? Is it sacrilege? :P  

Do it! Chris Hawks (HawkSoft) has a CoCo with a Pi inside, and an Arduino to read the CoCo keyboard. He boots it to the MESS CoCo emulator. Very cool. I'd be interested in picking up a dead CoCo myself for a project like that.

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