[Coco] drivewire/coconet hybrid coco/PC?

Frank Swygert farna at att.net
Tue Mar 24 11:20:36 EDT 2009


So when is someone going to get a tower case and mount a CoCo 3 
motherboard inside the case along with a small PC board? A mini PC board 
as a server for the CoCo all in the same case. Have the server PC double 
as a terminal. Then all the CoCo would need is a connection to the PC 
though the bit banger and an RS-232 pak. PC would need a couple serial 
ports. Wrap it all in one transparent package! The CoCo would be sort of 
an "upgrade" board for a PC... Of course this would only work for an 
OS-9/Nitros system, no DECB compatibility, but sure would be a neat 
set-up! Might lose some OS-9 game compatibility too.

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