MarkO

For 512K and 2MB boards, they are Solid... MarkO

For the Tandy Color Computer, ( CoCo ),"CoCo: The Colorful History of Tandy's Underdog Computer" is pretty good, also there is "Tandy's Little Wonder, The Color Computer" you can get the PDF here: https://archive.org/details/Tandys_Little_Wonder_1993_Farna_Systems and the Second Edition is here: https://colorcomputerarchive.com/repo/Documents/Books/Tandy's Little Wonder Second Edition (Farna Systems).pdf MarkO ( Apple ][ user since JAN-1982, Tandy CoCo user since 2012 )

I'll try to Pull it Out and get some Close Ups... I'm so Back Logged with Day Job and current Hobbies, I haven't even taken the North Star Out of Storage.. MarkO

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Saturday August 14th at 13:00 UTC-5, 18:00 UTC https://youtu.be/JmP8xIKQ05I The Dragon, released by Dragon Data Ltd of Wales, UK ( a division of Mettoy ), built and sold a Personal Computer based on the Motorola Design Spec for a MC6809 based Computing System. This is the same Design Spec that Tandy/Radio-Shack designed the Tandy Color Computer ( CoCo ) from. Making the Dragon and the CoCo, cousins.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Data MarkO

I see on Asimovs that the ADIOS manual in there as well as Softworks-ROS ( Remote Operating System 😞 The ADIOS-81_Apple Disk Interface and Operating System Reference Manual-1981 Softworks-ROS (Remote Operating System) Installation and Operation Manual I wonder if muMath and muLISP are related to the muSPEED Math Co-Processor?? Both products would benefit from some CPU assistance.. Mine seems to be exactly like the CCS 7781B design: CCS Apple II APU 7781B Owners Manual Too Bad there don't seem to be any Disks of ADIOS or Softworks-ROS..... ADIOS Disks _might_ have muLISP on them... MarkO

I have seen this Issue, recently on another Discord Server with BOTs that aren't configured correctly... MarkO

The CoCoSDC has the "same requirements" as RS-DOS... 16KB RAM and Extended BASIC... But 16KB won't leave any RAM for Programs, so 32KB is a _minimum_ RAM level for a working system.. MarkO

I I live about 8 hours North of you... That makes me "closer" that many people..... MarkO

JAN-1982: Discover the Three Apple ][+ 48KB in the High School Business Classroom. Bought some blank disks and started "collecting" Software.. SEP-1982: All Apple ][+ were moved to dedicated classroom, no longer "free access".. APR-1983: My Uncle and Dad both got Sinclair ZX-81 "kits" to Build... Works Great, but no Disks and Membrane Keyboard.. NOV-1983: High School friend, Randy and I form Partnership.. We each bring $600.00, ( US Dollars ) to purchase a 6 month old, used Apple ][e, 64KB, one Disk ][ and Monitor /// with that little stand.. APR-1984, ( or ), Randy buys out my Half, my Dad contributes $600.00 and we get another of the, now 12 month old, used Apple ][e, 64KB, one Disk ][ and Monitor /// with that little stand.. My dad buys a Star Gemini 10, I get a Microbuffer, 64KB with Parallel and Serial Interfaces, a RAMWORKS III with 512KB, Ace Calc, ( a little better than Vis-a-Calc ) and Word Juggler ][e for Word Processing.. My dad gets the Apple Monitor 100 and Apple Memory/RGB card, and stores the Monitor /// My dad uses this setup until 1994, when he "upgrades" to a i386 Compatible.. Attached Picture: I'm the "guy" on the Left.. Randy is on the Right..

Congratulations and Welcome to the World of the CoCo!!! I've been a CoCo owner since 2012, starting with a NIB CoCo 3, and now I own Two CoCo 1s, Four CoCo 2s and Two CoCo 3, plus some add-ons like a couple Mulit-Pack Interfaces, ( MPIs ) and some Carts like the RS-232 Pak, Sound Carts, like the Sound and Speech Pak and Orchestra ( Orch-90 ). **bluejay** mentioned The Color Computer Archive: https://colorcomputerarchive.com/ This the Primary Site for CoCo Software and Documentation. There are quite a few more sites, which a lot of them are nicely summarized at : http://imacoconut.com/ This site is run by "ogStevieStrow", who is "our fearless leader" of the CoCoTALK! show, a Live weekly broadcast. Modern hardware, like the CoCoSDC, that replace the Floppy Disk and Hard Disk with SD card Images, make running Disk Games very easy for a reasonable price. Since the MPIs let you have multiple Carts installed on your CoCo, and they are kind of Rare, there are modern version, the Mini MPI and Mega-Mini MPI available from Ed "Zippster" Snider, who also sells the CoCoSDC: https://thezippsterzone.com/ The original, Non-Self-Centering JoySticks, ( sometimes referred to as, "Black Beauties" ) are of limited use for most games, so you will want to find one of the Deluxe JoyStick, and buy a modern Digital to Analog Converter for the games that don't use Analog features. The CoCo's JoySticks are configured as a Voltage Divider, Not as "strict" Resistance, like the IBM-PC or Apple ][ JoySticks, but these Sticks can be modified to work with the CoCo. A weekly feature of CoCoTALK!, for the past year is our, "High Score Challenge", in which a Game is announced for the Week, and then interested people, play the game and Post a picture of their High Score(s).. And on the next show they are Ranked and you can see how well you did.... https://cocotalk.live/ MarkO

I wish you could make it... I would love to meet up with you in person... MarkO

Shepardson Is who wrote Apple ][ DOS 3.x, the parts above WRTS..

BITD, ( 1982 ), I remember seeing the Model I, II, III and 4 at Radio-Shack and I faintly remember the Color Computer 1. Since I was into the Apple ][, ( an Apple ][+, 48K at my High School and an Apple ][e at Home ), and a Commodore SX-64, because most of the rest of my family had the C64s.. In college, ( 1985 ), I had a friend that Started with the Model I, and by the time I met him and his wife, they had moved up to the Model III and Model 4, and a Tandy 2000. I go to borrow the Tandy 2000 for a month, but is was only MS-DOS compatible, so unless I wanted to write all my own Software, there wasn't much to run.. Today, i'm into the Tandy Color Computer, because in 2012 I got a NIB, Color Computer 3, ( CoCo 3 ), that was included with an Apple //e Platinum with Apple Color Monitor ][e and some original software. At first I wasn't quite sure what to do with it, but found it has the MC6809, which is very much like the 6502 family, and since I never had any Color Computer equipment before, so I kept it... Since then, I have gotten, Two of the CoCoSDCs, Two FD-500 Drives, a Extended Basic 64K CoCo 2, and then a Standard BASIC 16K CoCo 2, with a BONUS, ( reported Non-Working ), 4K CoCo 1.. By the time it arrived, the CoCo 1 worked fine... Three more CoCo2s and another CoCo 3 and a few CoCo Carts. MarkO

Very Interesting... I was at my "local" Apple Dealer, "Team Electronics" pretty frequently.. I would guess that it wasn't in their, ( best ) interest to offer the Apple ][ / ][+ / ][e as a kit, since this wasn't offered as an option.. Possibly a more "hobbies oriented" place, like The Byte Shop would have different clientele and offer different services. I think I would have liked growing up in the Silicon Valley in the 1970s.. Alas, at least I benefited from growing up near the Silicon Forrest.. MarkO