[Coco] How much of a CoCo makes it a CoCo?

[Mark McDougall]

On 8/07/2011 10:42 PM, Ries, Rich (S&FS) wrote:

> My dream Coco would have VGA, AT-style keyboard, USB ports, and a
> buffered experimenter's port. The VGA connector would be at the rear of
> the box, the keyboard and USB at the front, and the experimenter's port
> anywhere but the rear.
> 
> It would also power up looking for an OS, and if it did not find one,
> switch to BASIC. A built-in RTC chip would be A Real Nice Thing. I am
> also a believer in co-processors.

All perfectly doable with a DE1 or similar and an enhanced Coco3FPGA...

Regards,

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