[Coco] Compaq IA-1 CoCo 3 emulator photos

[Roger Taylor]

At 10:30 AM 4/14/2008, you wrote:
>Roger,
>
>This system looks perfect - I am glad you got it up and running. 
>Looks a lot better than my current emulator box.
>
>I don't know if you will be able to get that USB thing working under 
>DOS - usb doesn't seem to have much, if any, support there. You 
>might find an easier time of getting a version of Linux running (I 
>would try a scaled down version of stock Debian, personally) and 
>then getting the USB working.
>
>Anyhow, good luck with it and whatever else you plan on doing to it. 
>Such "hacking" takes a lot of time and patience, I know...boy, do I know.
>
>-- Andrew L. Ayers
>    Glendale, Arizona



I tried Midori Linux on the IA-1 and was not that impressed, mainly 
from the lack of meat and potatoes.  There was literally nothing to 
do except fire up the MP3 player and edit a document...  no zd1211rw 
wireless-G support for my Belkin USB network adaptor, etc.  Midori 
seems to be a scaled down version of Debian from what I read on the 
web.  It looks nice but without the wireless dongle support, it's a 
sitting duck.  Actually, it doesn't even come close to how nice 
Fedora 9 is.  Wow.  Look out Gates.  Really.  (no, really).  :)

I fresh-installed Fedora 9 on my spare laptop yesterday (up from 
Fedora 8) and was impressed to see it connect to my wireless router 
within a minute from the desktop showing, automatically connecting to 
the network.  I called up Firefox and went right into the chat room 
on my site.  This is impressive stuff.  I did do a modprobe zd1211rw 
at first from a prompt but I'm not sure if that was required.

If I can get any version of Linux that fits in 16mb and has the 
zd1211rw driver already ready to use, I'll give it a shot, but it'll 
be an internal Flash drive install, leaving the option to insert the 
CF card to boot up MS-DOS and the CoCo stuff.