[Coco] [Color Computer] Re: I think I got taken on eBay

[Retro Canada]

i think is easier to open it and take photos from the inside :P

i just got a dirty yellow coco3 for cheap and for my surprise and pleasure it has a 512kb board inside, well i wont need the brand new cloud-9 board that pisses off even the supreme leader of dpkr kim jongun with its B2 bomber shape :P

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On 2013-04-05, at 11:35 PM, Derrick Jobidon <djobidon at bell.net> wrote:

> Unless you use a modified basic. Print mem will report that much  because of limitationsbof the interpreter. To test a coco3 for 512k under basic the easiest is to lpoke 0 with a value of your choice and see if it is mirrored at address &h60000 with lpeek. If it does mirror then you have 128k.
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> neils_morr <neilsmorr at gmail.com> a écrit :
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> Yes. IIRC, you need to connect it to a monitor or to a TV/VCR that has video and audio ports.
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> 24K sounds like it has 32K of RAM. I can't remember if that's right - I know you needed an extra board to get 512K.
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> Neil
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> --- In ColorComputer at yahoogroups.com, "rkindig" <randall.kindig at ...> wrote:
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>> I received it today and it has a CoCo3 label on it, but no composite port.  When I do a PRINT MEM it comes back with just over 24k.  Is that the right command to tell how much RAM it has?
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