[Coco] more 1 bit madness

[Steve]

Tandy did put a 3-voice sound chip in CoCo,  the never released Deluxe 
Color Computer that would sold for twice the price of the CoCo 2.

But that's the problem.  Adding stuff like that would add to the cost of 
the computer.  The only reason we got the CoCo 3 was its build cost 
lower that the CoCo 2.

When the CoCo 3 was in development, I was fighting for a better graphic 
system and a sound chip.  But the only improvement I got was the 
programmable timer (for sound FX) since it could be added to the GIME 
without taking that much room.  I was not happy about it, but you take 
what you can get.

The fact the CoCo 3 did cost less to build than the CoCo 2 is the reason 
why the CoCo line ended with three models and not two.

Steve

On 1/20/2014 8:28 PM, Richard E Crislip wrote:
> Hi Nick,
>
> Isn't  a shame that Tandy chose not to put sound and video 
> co-processors in the CoCo similar to the C-64 or Atari? That 6809 
> would have blown everything out of the water at the time.
>