[Coco] Passing of Steve Bjork, Computer Gaming Pioneer and CoCo Developer

[Brian Blake]

Funny you should mention that, Allen. There's currently an auction for one
of Steve's CoCo3 units on eBay. Appears to have a board designed by Dennis
Kitz installed, as well as a few other mods.

Naturally the seller is trying to take advantage of Steve's passing - the
price is $2500.



https://www.ebay.com/itm/225940661722?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=SuaklRy1RYi&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=wyffTHcOQjq&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY




On Wed, Dec 20, 2023, 10:36 AM Allen Huffman via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
wrote:

> > On Dec 19, 2023, at 8:27 PM, Aaron Wolfe via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > When I was 8 or 9 years old we got our first Coco, a big battleship grey
> > original coco 1 upgraded by my father with the "half bad" ram that wasn't
> > half bad, I forget the details.
>
> Ah, that rings a bell. When I bought my first CoCo 1, it was an RS
> salesman that helped me out — bought it with his discount and upgraded it
> to 64K. BUT, I found out a year or two later that it could not access the
> upper 64K. I had to order an upgrade that was a chip with some wires off it
> or something. That enabled getting to the upper 32K.
>
> I think that was the original 32K - 64K upgrade. They just started putting
> 64K in it, but the system was not wired to access it.
>
> I know Bjork did a ton of hardware mods on his own systems. I would have
> loved to have seen what all he had for his PC-repack development system
> that was stolen. That Model 3 repack was interesting looking, in the
> listing.
>
>                 — A
>
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