[Coco] PART NEEDED

[Bruce W. Calkins]

----- Original Message ----- 

From: "Mike Kandrac"

> Does anyone know where of if its still possible to get

> the  extended color basic chip ? im in need of several





At this point in time, my understanding is, that the only legal sources are 
chips pulled from old Color Computers.



The ROMs on the CoCo 1 and early (Non A & B models) CoCo 2s were a Motorola 
specification chip and not directly compatible with the 27XX line of EPROMS. 
If you can get a supply of their EPROM equivalent and a programmer for them 
you might be able to bootleg a few.



Once-upon-a-time I loaded a program from cassette to put the computer into 
all RAM mode and then loaded a ROM image from cassette.  Of course on 
shutdown the unit reverted to Color Basic.



The cheapest route may well be to snag Extended Color Basic machines from 
eBay or other sources.  Although, a few years ago, there was a person 
on-line who was selling the parts from pieced out Color Computers.



Bruce W.