> > rbaltissen@wxs.nl wrote: > > is a interface used by a CoCo (a kind of Tandy-computer??? sorry, I forgot > > (no joke)) I also have one for a XT-PC which looks alike. Two weeks ago I > > Tandy Color Computer. I think it's a successor/bigger version of the > TRS-80 series. But that's all I know about it. The CoCo is actually a pretty cool computer; in Europe it was marketed as the Dragon 32/64. It was around during the golden era (I used to play games on the model I at Radio Shack in the early 1980's). Roughly, it is to the TRS-80 machines what the C64 is to the PET. The processor is a 6809, which is a pretty nifty processor -- in the spirit of the 6502, but with extra registers and instructions (branching, mult/div, bigger stack, etc.), i.e. more powerful/flexible. It has pretty decent graphics (hires color), and I believe it is generally regarded as a good hacker's machine, both hardware- and software-wise, and a number of knowledgable people are still around (I do not number among the knowledgable). I have a model III, which came standard with 128k. The CoCo's had OS/9 ported to them early on (nice multitasking OS), and a lot of development work has been done in that area. A number of resources are available on the web. There is also a CoCo mailing list and a newsgroup. There may even be an emulator. -Steve - This message was sent through the cbm-hackers mailing list. To unsubscribe: echo unsubscribe | mail cbm-hackers-request@dot.tcm.hut.fi.
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