[Coco] Fwd: CoCo 2 Factory Composite Video RE'd

[Bill Pierce]

It's "maybe" possible that it was an Educational model or something. Tandy was big on providing educational materials (actually big on BIG tax write offs and hopes the kid's parents would buy them one).
They also ran nation-wide "Summer Computer Camps" two of which were "TRS-80 Logo Computer Camp" and "TRS-80 Basic Computer Camp" and both ads (TRS-80 News Letter) specify learning on the Color Computer and Extended Color Basic. So they may have made some special models for their camps or for school systems as Tandy also setup school network systems with Coco terminals and Model 3 & 4 as servers. There's pictures of such systems set up in classrooms in some of the TRS-80 News Letters. There's also diagrams and specs on how it's done.
 

Bill Pierce
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-----Original Message-----
From: Zippster <zippster278 at gmail.com>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Tue, Dec 16, 2014 2:33 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] Fwd:  CoCo 2 Factory Composite Video RE'd


I was surprised when I received it and saw the connector.
Then I opened the case and suddenly had an irresistible desire to pull the
board out…  :)

I’m guessing they didn’t make too many,  but who knows?

- Ed

> On Dec 16, 2014, at 12:45 PM, Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Dec 16, 2014, at 9:32 AM, Zippster <zippster278 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I don’t think it was a 3rd party.  As far as I can tell it was the factory 
video
>> on this model (3128A).  
> 
> I never heard about this. Does anyone else have a 26-3128 model CoCo to 
compare with? A quick Google shows:
> 
> Undercolor reference:
> 26-3127 - RF out
> 26-3128 - NTSC out
> 
> Rainbow 02/1985 had an ad from Delker Electronics with this model number and 
"Direct Video CoCo2" as the description, $219.
> 
> Wow, how did I miss this? I guess I was happy with my TV so I never looked in 
to alternatives.
> 
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