[Coco] Remembering the Deluxe Color Computer....

[Arthur Flexser]

I seem to recall that there was also a mention in that manual that implied
there was some sort of enhanced editing of Basic programs (a screen editor?)
in the Deluxe CoCo, as well.

>From the (rather tiny) picture that appeared in one of the catalogs, I'd
guess that the Deluxe CoCo was pretty indistinguishable in appearance, at
least from the front, from a CoCo 3.  Not counting some sort of nameplate
difference, one would imagine.

Art
On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 9:38 PM, Boisy G. Pitre <boisy at tee-boy.com> wrote:

> Steve,
>
> My first exposure to the Deluxe CoCo was in the "Getting Started with
> Extended Color BASIC" manual that came with my 16K Extended BASIC CoCo 2 in
> November of 1985.  As I recall there were mentions in the sidelines of the
> manual about some key command that exhibited true lowercase on the screen.
>  I remember how tantalizing that was and wondering when the Deluxe CoCo
> would come out.
>
> Tandy must have hit themselves over the head for letting that slip in the
> BASIC manual.
>
> My second exposure to the Deluxe CoCo was listening to a cassette tape that
> Falsoft sold from the October 1986 Princeton Rainbowfest.  It was titled
> "CoCo 3 Roundtable" and on that tape, a question was asked by a gentleman to
> the panel about the "Deluxe CoCo" and where it was actually the CoCo 3.
>  Mark Siegel coyly answered something to the fact that those two products
> "had nothing to do with each other."  Steve, I believe you were on that
> panel.
>
> My third and final exposure to the Deluxe CoCo was when I worked for
> Microware.  One of the OS-9 guys told me that he had worked on OS-9 for the
> Deluxe CoCo but obviously nothing ever went to market.
>
> I would love to see a photo of the Deluxe CoCo, if one exists.
> --
> Boisy G. Pitre
> http://www.tee-boy.com/
>
> On Jun 18, 2011, at 6:29 PM, Steve Bjork wrote:
>
> > I've trying to write down the story behind the never released Tandy's
> Deluxe Color Computer.  It almost hit the market with a one picture left in
> a Radio Shack catalog.  (The computer was removed just before going to
> print.)  The story from Tandy the Deluxe computer was dropped because of a
> limited supply on one or parts also used in the CoCo 2.
> >
> > Even after having one for a short while, some of the details of unit are
> getting a bit fuzzy now a days.
> >
> > Anyway, I remember the Deluxe CoCo having a true Double speed mode, real
> RS-232 port with UART, Sound Chip and RAM drive.  While it used the same
> graphics system, there was a bit that "shift" the colors for a new color
> palette.
> >
> > Was the memory size on the it 64k or 128k and did it have any memory
> paging?
> >
> > Do you remember anything else about the Deluxe Color Computer?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Steve
> > P.S. All those keyboards that Radio Shack stores sold are parts from the
> Deluxe CoCo first run.
> >
> >
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