[Coco] Coco 4

[jadonaldson at charter.net]

  If you look at the Burk & Burk interface, it interfaced
to 8 bit ISA Hard Drive interfaces. 

John Donaldson
> 
> From: peak at mail.polarcomm.com
> Date: 2004/01/06 Tue PM 01:18:53 EST
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Coco 4
> 
> Well Neil,
> an ISA bus slot is really not to difficult to add to a coco.
> As long as we are talking about an older style 8-bit ISA bus!
> How you ask? Very similar to the way peter stark did it on his
> "PT-68K". See Radio Electronics magazine January thru 
> September 1988!
> 
> 
> ---- Original message ----
> >Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 15:54:25 -0800
> >From: "Neil Morrison" <neilsmorr at hotpop.com>  
> >Subject: Re: [Coco] Coco 4  
> >To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" 
> <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> >
> >
> >I _REALLY_ wanted to use ISA boards for I/O etc. because 
> they are so
> >cheap, but translating the addresses etc. just looked like 
> too much
> >of nightmare. Too bad because a HD/FD 1 parallel/2 serial 
> board is
> >around $10 IIRC. I figure a nice little horizontal 
> case/power supply
> >would be useable, however.
> >
> >Neil
> >
> >----- Original Message ----- 
> >From: <jdaggett at gate.net>
> >
> >
> >> Neil
> >>
> >> I invision a mother board type layout using micro ATX form 
> factor.
> >> Maybe with PCI type slots and headers to plug in for IDE 
> and floppy
> >> drives. Maybe able to package in a reagular PC case with 
> PS2 style
> >> mouse and keyboard.
> >>
> >> just some wild ideas
> >>
> >> james
> >
> >
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