[Coco] [Bulk] Re: Emulating a 1980 4K CoCo on PC, Mac, Linux, etc.

[davidlinsley at gmail.com]

I picked up a CoCo 1 at an estate sale this weekend, serial 8752. The bumpy sticker on the front said 16K, but it has the piggy back mod to 32K and for bonus a Deluxe/3 keyboard too.


Cheers,

David.





From: Steve Batson
Sent: ‎Sunday‎, ‎January‎ ‎4‎, ‎2015 ‎9‎:‎08‎ ‎PM
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I Did from some article :)

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> On Jan 4, 2015, at 9:01 PM, Arthur Flexser <flexser at fiu.edu> wrote:
> 
> I wonder how many people did as I did and piggybacked a 16K CoCo 1 with
> another 16K to get a true 32K CoCo.
> 
> I later removed the piggybacked chips and went to 64K on my CoCo 1, working
> from a diagram in the short-lived but excellent magazine Color Computer
> News in an article by, I think, Frank Hogg.
> 
> Art
> 
>> On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 11:04 PM, Joel Ewy <jcewy at swbell.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 12/29/2014 10:41 AM, Kandur wrote:
>>> 
>>> Anybody had a Coco in 1980?
>> Not quite.  I got my first CoCo in the summer of 1981, but it was a 4K
>> machine.  I upgraded it to 16K ECB myself, but had a local Radio Shack take
>> it to 64K in 1984.  I think I read somewhere online somebody's opinion that
>> there was no 64K badge for the original CoCo.  Well, they put quite a
>> convincing one on mine when they upgraded it.  It's serial is 0006916.
>> The machine still works, but its case is fairly rough and I replaced the
>> chicklet keyboard with one from a CoCo 3 when I put a Puppo XT adapter on
>> the latter and packed it in a mini-tower case back when that was the thing
>> to do.  I recently (well, maybe 10 years ago) found a 4K machine  (0039529)
>> at a computer surplus store and snatched it up.  It worked at the time, and
>> should still now, except the power switch has since physically failed.
>> 
>> JCE
>> 
>> Kandur
>>> 
>>> 
>>> ...
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