[Coco] Re: [Color Computer] What's wrong with this Picture

[jdaggett at gate.net]

On 18 Apr 2005 at 12:30, Kevin Diggs wrote:

Date sent:      	Mon, 18 Apr 2005 12:30:22 -0700
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> Hi,
> 
> James the Animal Tamer wrote:
> > 
> >>OH! JOY! and just relive Tandy's worst mistake on the COCO ever.
> > 
> > 
> > I vote that Tandy's worst mistake on the CoCo was to make the
> > MC-10's BASIC tokens different from the CoCo's.  This would be just
> > behind making the MC-10 at all.
> > 
> 
>  If we are voting, here are some other candidates::
> 
>  1) not using a 68008 in the tre (backwards compatability - who needs
> that? could they have put a 6809 in a cart that could have itself had
> rompaks plugged into it?)
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Why use an 8 bit data buss on a 32 bit machine. MC68008??? Why not the 
MC68HC000FN12?

>  2) not using some of the fancier wires on the 6809
>  3) the cm-8 - we deserved better

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Definitley can't argue here.

>  4) tre should have had a switching PS
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Switching power supplies are noisy and require more filtering on the su pply lines as 
well as the AC lines. For the power that the stock tre, a linear su pply is just as cost 
effective and size wise.

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>  5) sloppy peripheral decoding (using 32 precious addresses when 4
>  would do)
>
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That can be easily solved with a bit of hacking. 

james


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