[Coco] Just bought me a CoCo 3...

[Jason Reighard]

Just a heads up the link for the Switch-a-Roo looks like someone possibly
re-selling them using a picture of an early prototype. That's definitely
not my site.  I build them and sell them along with other coco products in
my official store located at http://cocoman.biz

On Wed, Mar 1, 2023, 4:43 PM Robert Emery via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
wrote:

> I recently created a fairly comprehensive list of our options...
>
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ltRmCRqZnIAYTQ9-gnq1lIhqMLhrvyg_m0rO4F9x1Do/edit?usp=sharing
>
> Cheers,
> Bob
>
> On Wed, Mar 1, 2023, 12:06 PM Kevin Havens W9JYD via Coco <
> coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
>
> > Hey y'all. I have pulled the trigger and bought myself a "tested,
> working"
> > Tandy CoCo 3 (128K) with an "untested" FD-502 controller and Drive 0
> > (description said that the seller had no 5¼ floppies to test it out
> > [neither do I] so it was as is). It also appears to come with a Wico
> > Command and Control Atari 2600 joystick to CoCo adapter. (And according
> to
> > some googling, Sega Genesis controllers will work I believe. Correct me
> if
> > I'm wrong, please.)
> >
> > I bought it from eBay. I know if I read this mailing list more often, I
> > would've realized someone here is also selling CoCo swag but I probably
> > missed out on it... Oh well.
> >
> > But I also bought a CoCo SDC from retrorewind.ca (I didn't get the SD
> card
> > with it, I've got plenty lying around) and some disk images from the CoCo
> > Archive for when I was playing around with emulators.
> >
> > I've had the CoCo 1 (26-3002 16k ECB) and CoCo 2 (26-3127B Korean 64k ECB
> > with updated VDG and SAM) but never had a "bare metal" CoCo 3 unless it
> was
> > through emulators mostly.
> >
> > However, I do have a question. I have heard about CoCo 3 RGB to HDMI
> > adapters out there. Can someone point me in the right direction to find
> > them? I have a composite video to HDMI upconverter I found at a flea
> market
> > but I don't think it would handle the high resolution that originally
> > required a CM-8 or comparable analog RGB monitor...
> >
> > It's high time I got back into the CoCo. I always have wanted a CoCo
> 3... I
> > finally got my own now.
> >
> > Thanks and very 73,
> > Kevin Havens W9JYD
> >
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