[Coco] Coco 4

[jimcox at miba51.com]

The one word that stands out your post is "still"  To be 
honest, the CoCo is "still" around, but is becoming quite 
rare.  ISA Video cards are more common, but trying to get 
a standard to write drivers for and that we all can use 
will be hard.

Jim

On Mon, 05 Jan 2004 19:35:02 -0500
  jdaggett at gate.net wrote:
>Neil
>
>ISA is okay for me. Then you could use 8 bit video cards 
>that still 
>floating around Definitely I/O cards. 
>
>shrub
>
>
>On 5 Jan 2004 at 15:54, Neil Morrison wrote:
>
>> 
>> 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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