[Color Computer][Coco] CoCo video?

[Neil Morrison]

The logic is simple. By the time you have added a MultiPak, floppy drives, 
hard drive, serial port, ram disk and possibly hacked the inside to use a 
6309 and what all else you have a real kluge.

Instead, use the Coco 3 as a keyboard and video display driver (and cassette 
support) and add a box with all that other junk in one package, plugging it 
in via the ROM slot. Much neater and more reliable as bits aren't likely to 
fall out! You can run OS-9 of course; and for Color Basic much of what is in 
the box could still be accessible. I'd even have a slot in the box for the 
ROM paks, and perhaps an internal one for the Speech/Sound Pak which is too 
complex to replace IMO.

Neil

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark McDougall" <msmcdoug at iinet.net.au>

> I really don't understand what you, or similar thinking persons, are 
> trying to achieve here?
>
> I can understand wanting to interface modern peripherals to the CoCo, such 
> as Compact Flash disks, USB mice/keyboards, VGA monitors, network cards 
> etc. That's all about convenience whilst still maintaining the underlying 
> base machine to run the original software.



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