[Coco] RE: [Color Computer] Looking for a Coco I 64k?

[Ward Griffiths]

On 11/12/2005 07:50 am, Ward Griffiths wrote:
> On 11/12/2005 06:56 am, Dave Dunfield wrote:
> > So ... after you purchased and installed the 64k upgrade in your 32k
> > Coco, was it actually any different than before you started (ie: did the
> > upgrade include anything other than 64k RAM chips?)
>
> I don't know of anyone who ever paid for an upgrade from 32k to 64k. 
> Anybody with a question, I told them to buy the copy of OS-9 they were
> upgrading to run and see if it booted.  Then come back and we'd sell them
> the 64k button for $2.  (They were like $.25 from National Parts).

Comment on the above -- I don't know of anybody with a piggy-back 32k upgrade 
ever paying Radio Shack to upgrade a Coco in any way -- the piggy-back job 
that they had to do themselves without the help of RS was more complex than 
any of the official Coco upgrades.

The first 32k Coco I ever saw was right around the beginning of 1981, when I 
was instructor at the Las Vegas RSCC.  Bill Vergona and our tech did the 
upgrade during the tech's lunch break and he used the 32k button from a Mod 3 
that had been upgraded to 48k.
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