[Coco] Dual monitors on a Coco 3?

[Bill Gunshannon]

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From: Coco [coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] on behalf of L. Curtis Boyle [curtisboyle at sasktel.net]
Sent: Monday, March 13, 2017 12:12 PM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [Coco] Dual monitors on a Coco 3?

We used that at work extensively - we controlled 3 printers using windowing on the Coco 3 itself, and had 8 RS-232 terminals set up around the plant also running off it. Full multi-user and multi-tasking. There are some text editors and terminal programs that supported TERMCAP style capabilities,so we could run them on various kinds of terminals. We even had a custom OS9TERM program for DOS that supported OS-9 display codes for colors, changing screen resolutions (Text only), and even supported overlay windows.

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How did you get more than three?  (Console, Bitbanger, RS232 Pak)
It was still impressive.  I used to demo it at the University.  COCO 2, 
6809 with 64K memory and one floppy with three users working on
it.

bill