[Coco] Coco2 on eBay without Extended Color Basic ?

[Little John]

Darren, I may be remembering wrong on which model I got on clearance - I 
know it only had a single 28-Pin internal ROM socket (but had a 24-pin 8K 
ROM when I got it w/standard BASIC) - but you may be correct it may have 
only had 16K. It's been a very long time. I bought it because I wanted to 
take the 74LS785 out of it for use in my older CoCo to do the 256K upgraded, 
but the clearanced one wouldn't work when I put the 74LS783 in it's place, 
so I just swapped them back (the 64Kx4 couldn't be refreshed by the 74LS783 
which makes me think it did have 64K since the 74LS783 could have refreshed 
16Kx4 DRAM [Ithink ]) I hate getting old - memory get's dodgy...
I do remember when I received the Extended BASIC ROM from CRC - it was an 
EPROM and I always wondered if they had really licensed it from Tandy 
because a genuine Tandy ROM would not have been an EPROM.... but it worked 
so I used it.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Little John" <sales at gimechip.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 3:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Coco2 on eBay without Extended Color Basic ?


>I actually bought one on clearance that was configured the same way as this 
>back in 85 or 86 (except it was NTSC) - can't remember which year 85/86. It 
>only had standard BASIC, so I ordered an upgrade from CRC. Of course the 
>one I bought way back then may have been a different catalog number than 
>the 26-3127B, but it had the 74LS785 and 6847T1 - it's been a lot of years. 
>Note the seller states that the warranty seal is still intact on this 
>machine as well.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Darren A" <mechacoco at gmail.com>
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 9:55 AM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Coco2 on eBay without Extended Color Basic ?
>
>
>> On 10/29/10, Fedor Steeman wrote:
>>>
>>> Looking at the startup screen, I can see that it only has Color Basic, 
>>> not
>>> Extended! But weren't all these CoCo2 models equipped with Extended? 
>>> Could
>>> someone have swapped the ROMs or is it perhaps defect? I may have some 
>>> spare
>>> ROM for it, if I would go for it.
>>>
>>
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>>
>> I would say that it is somewhat odd.  The catalog number on the bottom
>> is 26-3127B.  That number refers to a 64K Extended Basic machine.  I
>> have a couple of those, and in both cases there is a single 16K
>> combined ROM soldered to the motherboard (no socket).
>>
>> The last CoCo 2 models that came with only Color Basic were the
>> 26-3134A and 26-3134B and had 16K of factory RAM.
>>
>> Darren
>>
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