[Coco] Just a thought

[Bill Pierce]

This turned into a Coco4 thread long before anyone answered the original question...

I think the original question was NOT what you wanted in a Coco4, but what would a Coco have looked like had TANDY continued to make it until now....

Personally, I think it would have looked like year before last's PC model as Tandy was always 2 years behind because they spent half the developement time trying to shave costs and by the time they released it, it was 2 years too late. It's one of the MANY reasons their computer department eventually failed.

It would still have floppy drives and IDE hard drives. An SD card reader would be in the works but not yet released until they shaved the costs down some more (ETA 2 years). SATA drives would be on hold until they could update the Tandy 10,000 to SATA first.

It would still boot up in 32X16 and have the old MS BASIC (copyright still in place).
The new Super HiRes Graphics would be accessable from BASIC via the Microsoft patch to the Linux patch to the Microware patch to the Microsoft BASCI roms.

The 6809 support would be on a PCI card only available from special order and not in the catalog even though the ads for The "Super Coco" say it's 100% backwards compatable. The 6809 card would actually have a 6309 on board but not officially supported by Tandy.
Graphics would be handled by the "GIMEYCC" (Gimme Your Credit Card) chip.
 

Bill Pierce
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