[Coco] Coco 4

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Well Neil,
an ISA bus slot is really not to difficult to add to a coco.
As long as we are talking about an older style 8-bit ISA bus!
How you ask? Very similar to the way peter stark did it on his
"PT-68K". See Radio Electronics magazine January thru 
September 1988!


---- Original message ----
>Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 15:54:25 -0800
>From: "Neil Morrison" <neilsmorr at hotpop.com>  
>Subject: Re: [Coco] Coco 4  
>To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" 
<coco at maltedmedia.com>
>
>
>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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