[Coco] RE: [Color Computer] New stuff

[Glen VanDenBiggelaar]

Thanks for the info Richard,
It's a very neat design! each key mechanism is interlocking (like lego,on 
top of a circuit board) thus if you had more keys, you can add to the 
design, and create any "extra" keys like function, keypad etc. The only 
thing is you would have to add to the circuit board, but it almost looks 
like a wire wrap design, that someone with a bit of solder could 
theoretically add to.

The other  CoCo is neat also, a very simple design that they soldered a coco 
2 keyboard connectors  to the pins on the motherboard, the the mylar "Cable" 
just slides in like any CoCo 2. BUT that was just the beginning. Originally 
it was a 4K 26-3001 with basic, they added the extended ROM and 32K 
upgrade.- The 32K upgrade was gold top RAM from Tandy. I had seen a bunch of 
32K upgrades, But never with Gold Ram with Tandy's and Motorola's Logo's on 
them. The "regular" 32K upgrade was just plain chips with Tandy's logo on 
them. Anyway, I thought it was rather interesting, even if nobody else does. 
I suspect this was a very early upgrade.
-Glen


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>Glen,
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>On the keyboard, I seem to recall that Mark Data made those - don't know if
>anyone else did. I also believe I've heard they were actually Model I
>keyboards that had been adapted to fit the CoCo.
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>Whatever they were, I had one (actually, still HAVE, boxed and in storage).
>SOOOOO much better than the horrible Chiclet keyboard!
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