The question is, why? I can understand doing basic in stuff like Maximite. But why spend most of cost of a decent notebook on yesterdays dream? I don't get it, the form factor is all wrong for it actually being useful and to top it off there is a floppy drive in development. why would you even consider that when USB offers Gigabytes for a fraction of the cost?
There is always a niche nostalgia market for popular old computers. It's been done with the Apple I, Altair, C64, Amiga, and a raft of others.
He'll sell his 100 units, but to get a much bigger market outside of the Bee nostalgia buffs, it's gotta be:
a) Open source hardware and software
b) In a more modern useful form factor like the Maximite et.al.
And of course, that's not really possible in a Microbee form factor.
Stick the Microbee code into a Maximite/Arduino type thing and you's have something.
Personally, I wouldn't have bothered with the coldfire and the extra stuff, a straight clone would have sold just as many. Possibly with a simple PIC/AVR to handle the SD card storage emulation, and keep it all through-hole. The "hybrid" SMD kit kinda takes the luster off it.
Dave.