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Bill DeWitt wrote:
> "Jon A. Cruz" <jon### [at] geocities com> wrote in message
> news:385448FE.DA5436DB@geocities.com...
> > So, what's a coco 32? Closest we had here in the States were CoCo 2's and
> CoCo
> > 3's.
> >
>
> I may have mis-named it. It was one of Tandy's first ColorComputers and
> it had either 32 kb of memory or maybe it was 16 and I just kept wishing I
> had waited and got the 32...
>
> I had to write a program in basic, use it to record information on the
> cassette tape and then I used another program to read that info into a
> pretty picture. It would do something like 8 colors unless you used "high"
> resolution, in which case it drew odd rainbow lines on my little 10"
> TV/monitor.
The original gray CoCo was just the "TRS-80 Color Computer"
4K RAM for $400 originally. Later it got bumped up to 16k from them. 32K and
then 64K was later available on the after-market.
The CoCo II was white, and had 64K. Then Came the CoCo III with 128K,
expandable to 512K. They also
Those were my first computers. I still have them in here on the shelf within
reach of my chair. :-)
Some of the good things about it:
* At the time, all other 8-bit computers had 256-byte pages, and horrible
indexing, while the CoCo had a Motorolla processor with true 16-bit index
registers (access 64K at once ).
* The tape loading and saving on the CoCo was faster than the Floppy drive on
the Commodore 64.
* Could get OS/9 for it. A real-time, multitasking operating system. Years
ahead of old MS.
--
"My new computer's got the clocks, it rocks
But it was obsolete before I opened the box" - W.A.Y.
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