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

[Brian Blake]

There were a number of mods back then utilizing switches to change the
default screen colors from black on nuclear green, to white on black,
etc...  I'm guessing that brown PCB by the transformer is doing that work -
it almost looks DIY, but a lot of the magazine products back then did as
well.

I can't say at all that I've ever seen this on a CoCo3, however. Most of
the mods like this I saw were on the CoCo1. It'd  definitely be a really
interesting CoCo3 to examine.

On Tue, Jan 2, 2024 at 1:05 PM Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com> wrote:

> On Jan 2, 2024, at 11:46 AM, Brian Blake via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > 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
>
> This is such a terrible way to find out about some of the stuff he had. I
> wonder what the switches in the back do?
>
> I had heard about Steve’s Model 3 repack, which we saw in another auction.
> I had heard in the earliest days he patched EDTASM to do serial I/O so he
> could use an 80 column terminal to program. I knew he had a PC case repack
> CoCo 3.
>
> This one appears to have the “Deluxe CoCo” keyboard — either purchased
> from Radio Shack as a clearance item (I never saw one at my store), but
> maybe through a Tandy connection.
>
> I wonder if he ever had a Deluxe CoCo.
>
>                 — A
>
>
>

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