[Coco] [Color Computer] Re: I think I got taken on eBay

[Bill Pierce]

The easiest way to check for 512k is open it up. There will be a small circuit board sitting above the main board to the right of the power supply. All other cocos have no "floating" board. A 1 or 2 meg Coco will have this PLUS a 2nd floating board soldered to ALL pins of the CPU at the upper right of the main board.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Derrick Jobidon <djobidon at bell.net>
To: ColorComputer <ColorComputer at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Fri, Apr 5, 2013 11:35 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] [Color Computer] Re: I think I got taken on eBay


Unless you use a modified basic. Print mem will report that much  because of 
limitationsbof the interpreter. To test a coco3 for 512k under basic the easiest 
is to lpoke 0 with a value of your choice and see if it is mirrored at address 
&h60000 with lpeek. If it does mirror then you have 128k.

neils_morr <neilsmorr at gmail.com> a écrit :

Yes. IIRC, you need to connect it to a monitor or to a TV/VCR that has video and 
audio ports.

24K sounds like it has 32K of RAM. I can't remember if that's right - I know you 
needed an extra board to get 512K.

Neil

--- In ColorComputer at yahoogroups.com, "rkindig" <randall.kindig at ...> wrote:

> I received it today and it has a CoCo3 label on it, but no composite port.  
When I do a PRINT MEM it comes back with just over 24k.  Is that the right 
command to tell how much RAM it has?



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