[Coco] Saw this on redit

[Bruce W. Calkins]

I don't remember offhand where I read it, but Radio Shack based the 
Color Computer on Motorola's basic how build a 6809 computer plans.  Of 
course it matured from there. The CoCo 2 was heavily reengineered and 
the CoCo 3 was a whole new generation.  Not to disrespect the project in 
any way, but the information was/is publicly available.

Bruce W.


On 4/17/19 2:48 PM, Neil Cherry wrote:

> On 4/17/19 2:06 PM, tim franklinlabs.com wrote:
>>     I'm not sure this is a true "reverse engineering" system. It 
>> looks like
>>     he got the parts list (clearly available) and hand built his own 
>> CoCo.
>
>>     Not to say that that isn't a noble challenge but it's really not 
>> RE. I
>>     would wonder more why would one do it? I guess the only answer I 
>> could
>>     think of would be 'just to have something to do'.
>
> It's fun. Sorry but my day job is now Software Quality Assurance (I break
> things) and while I enjoy the challenge (Software Defined Networks) it
> isn't relaxing. I miss the simplier building electronics and programming
> them (though I do get some of that with my HA stuff). There is nothing
> cooler than be able to say 'I made that' despite the rest of the world
> having no clue the effort.
>
> And yes, I have several of my boards from the 80's still. All 6809 based.
> That's my favorite process.
>