[Coco] Compaq IA-1 w/CoCo emulation 2GB CF card

[Roger Taylor]

I am letting my prize-find Compaq IA-1 appliance/PC go for the 
highest offer which includes the 2GB CF card that boots straight to 
the Keil CoCo 3 emulator.  Any other MS-DOS based CoCo emulator can 
be launched instead, but I have it set up as such.  You can also exit 
to MS-DOS, or remove the Flash card and boot to Midori Linux which 
can also be replaced by any other lite Linux .img compatible.  There 
are several blends of IA-1 compatible Linux builds and I just went 
with Midori because it looked the best at the time.  Some have 
installed Windows 98 on their IA-1.

The unit is very compact and it uses a wireless keyboard.  I'ved 
tried lots of vintage system emulators like the other Keil emulators, 
so there's lots of ways to use this as a compact multi-emulator or 
whatever you want to do with it.  I'll hate to see it go, but I need 
the funds more than the unit at this time.  The lowest offer accepted 
will be $150.  Currently there are none listed on ebay which is odd 
because there are usually some listed.  If no offer is made by 
tomorrow night, I'll list it on ebay.

I only have read that some can be upgraded and some can't.  This IS 
the upgradeable version!  You can flash the internal memory or boot 
from a CF card.

Here are some pics that google has compiled.  Somehow they listed my 
own pic from coco3.com showing my son playing Mary and the Bees on the unit.

http://www.google.com/images?oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rlz=1R1GGLL_enUS389US389&q=compaq+ia-1&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&ei=-DKdTNzVH8KC8gb7q5WhDQ&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&ct=title&resnum=4&ved=0CDIQsAQwAw&biw=1600&bih=733

I encourage anyone interested to google up all they can on the IA-1 
and see how neat this thing is.  It would make a good recipe terminal 
in the kitchen or

This is just one of many sites showing what people are doing with their IA-1.
http://www.linux-hacker.net/cgi-bin/UltraBoard/UltraBoard.pl?Action=ShowBoard&Board=CIA

http://linux.boeldt.net/IA-1_Description.asp
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~ Roger Taylor