[Coco] Re: [Color Computer] Looking for a Coco I 64k?

[Ward Griffiths]

On 11/13/2005 01:03 pm, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote:
> FWIW,
>
> I bought my CoCo II Model F with 32K but it happened to run OS-9 and
> reported 64K there. Some friends upgraded to 64K to find out RS-DOS
> only reported 32K on their CoCos too.
>
> Some years afterwards, I learned that the 6809E had some special mode
> to switch between 32K banks.. I never did care to investigate further
> though.

32k (minus video space depending on PMODE/PCLEAR setting) is all that RS-DOS 
could ever see.  To see 64k the ROMs needed to be switched out.
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