[Coco] Compaq IA-1 CoCo 3 emulator photos

[Roger Taylor]

http://www.coco3.com/modules.php?name=Gallery&g2_itemId=1340

Here it is, folks... booted from a 2gig CompactFlash card, it's 
Vavasour's emulator loaded with folders full of virtual disks and ROMs.

The next step, which I probably won't keep, would be to embed MS-DOS 
and the emulators inside of the IA-1's internal 16mb Flash memory so 
when you turn the unit on, even without a CF inserted, it goes 
straight to the CoCo emulator.  The trick would be to launch it from 
the autoexec.bat since it's all MS-DOS based.

Right now a 16mb light version of Linux called 'Midori' is installed 
to the internal Flash drive, which is going unused due to nothing 
being in the distro and no wireless ability.  When a bootable CF is 
inserted, it gets priority since I have the BIOS set that way.

The Microsoft garbage installed on the unit is gone but I made an 
dolly.exe backup to an .img file just for the heck of it.  If I lost 
that file, no loss of sleep.

The IA-1 has 4 USB ports and a sound out jack.  That's about it 
besides the CF slot.  I'd like to get a USB to RS-232 serial adaptor 
working if I can and maybe, just maybe, the DriveWire scheme could 
work to connect the IA-1 to a PC to serve floppy disks and 
such.  I'll save that for later.