[Coco] Techrepublic Rocks !!!!

Dave Kelly daveekelly1 at embarqmail.com
Wed Apr 30 22:24:11 EDT 2008


Joel Ewy wrote:
> Interesting.  Of course I can turn on a real CoCo, load up Telewriter
> 64/128, and be typing a document before the BIOS on a typical PC has
> even finished its POST, let alone booting any operating system off of
> any kind of mass storage.  Still, the process he describes is pretty
> cool, and I have used BartPE to make a bootable Windows CD for
> diagnostic purposes.
> 
> JCE
> 
> Tom Seagrove wrote:
>>  
>>
>> Went to watch a video today about creating a USB bootable thumb drive.  So,
>> the guy is talking along and mentions "1st, you need a PC with a bios." and
>> as he is talking a CoCo appears on the screen.  Obviously not the type you
>> need for the task but it was cool to see.  Go watch and see for yourself...
>>

I bought one of  those with ubuntu Linux on it from Mad Tux. Comes on an 
8 gig flash drive.


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