[Coco] CoCo2 w/composite output

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Brian, if it doesn't have the RF output at all it sounds like one of the CoCos made for the education market. I had 2-3 of them and an old "network" controller to go with them. The network controller used the cassette port to connect something like a dozen CoCos to a master CoCo. One program could be sent from the master to all "networked" computers at once, I think using DSAVE on the master and DLOAD on the others, but may have been the standard cassette commands. This took some coordination -- the slave computers had to type "DLOAD -<ENTER>" all at once (not precisely, just all had to have the command typed and be waiting), then the master would type "DSAVE xxxx <ENTER>". There was a switch on the controller so the master could load from any individual computer, so student having problems could send their code to the teacher -- after verbal coordination. 

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Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 16:28:05 -0500
From: "Brian Hostetler" <bhostetler at ccrtc.com>
Subject: [Coco] CM-8 Monitor Specs

I just got my old coco setup going and realized one of my coco2s
has a composite video output with mono audio from a 1/8" stereo jack.  Most
of the coco2s have an RF RCA output and I was curious if the setup I have is
stock from Tandy, or was modified by someone.  In addition, the switch that
normally selects channel 3 or 4, sets the composite output to
color/monochrome.

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