[Coco] possible coco 4

[Joel Ewy]

mike delyea wrote:
> With all the talk of a coco 4 on the list recently, I just  had to post when
> I saw this.
>
> http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/12/18/norhtec_keyboard_pc/
>
> Runs Linux and has CF slots.
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Looks like a nifty computer.  That'd be sweet running something like 
Tinycore or Crunchbang.

For my taste though, I'd have a hard time calling it a CoCo-anything 
until it has some kind of usable, programmable, operating environment 
(e.g. some thing reminiscent of DECB) that starts almost instantly and 
can be powered off immediately (ie. running from (flash) ROM, not 
booting from mass storage); and a "Geek port" you can actually hook your 
own gadgets up to.  Until I see another computer with these qualities, 
they're all just more PC clones.  I'll grant that the ISA bus was 
relatively easy to interface with, but the most recent PC motherboard 
I've seen with one of those was an early Socket A Athlon board.  But 
then you lose the other neat, CoCo-like qualities of the keyboard PC, 
such as the small form factor, relative portability, and presumably low 
power consumption.

JCE