[Coco] Re: Coco Digest, Vol 10, Issue 114

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Yes, they were built especially for schools. I ran into a fellow in Atlanta ages ago who had a bunch of them. A school he volunteered at gave them to him when he helped set up a bunch of PCs (386 machines, I think???) for them. He found me somehow, and I took the lot to an Atlanta CoCoFest to sell for him. There weren't a lot of them, ISTR maybe a dozen (or less) working machines along with the special "network" controller. It was really only used to save and load programs. The main CoCo with a disc drive would be used to save. The each student station was manually selected to save, I believe. All student stations could be loaded at once from the main computer. Each student station just typed the load command and pressed "enter" before the main one sent. IIRC the "network controller" plugged into the cassette port of each student station. Very rudimentary, but it worked! 


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-------------- Original message from coco-request at maltedmedia.com: -------------- 
> Message: 4 
> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 19:42:35 -0500 
> From: Rodney V Hamilton 
> Subject: [Coco] Re: Re: Strange CoCo 2B model 
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com 
> Message-ID: 
> 
> In article <016501c48ac8$bf00a7c0$e05c79d1 at bc.hsia.telus.net>, Neil Morrison 
> says... 
> > 
> >ISTR that R/S did a special run of these for schools. They replaced the 
> >modulator with RF/AF output for monitors. 
> > 
> >The guy who might know is Frank Durda 
> >(uhclem.aug04 at nemesis.lonestar.org):- 
> > 
> >Frank Durda IV - only this address works:|"The Knights who say "LETNi" 
> > | demand... A SEGMENT REGISTER!!!" 
> >You must remove the "LOSE" to mail me. |"A what?" 
> >http://nemesis.lonestar.org |"LETNi! LETNi! LETNi!" - 1983 
> >Copr. 2004, ask before reprinting. 
> > 
> >NM 
> 
> I think I have one of those. Mine is 26-3128, 64K Color 2 SN 0094866, 
> FCC ID AAO99R26-3128. PCB is 8709416 REV B, DWG NO 1700235. 
> 
> The video PCB has the MC1372P wiring for video out. The plug is a 
> stereo 3.5 with video and audio out, which I paralled to a pair of 
> RCA plugs so I could use my regular A/V cables. 
> 
> -Rodney 
> 
> >----- Original Message ----- 
> >From: "Robert Emery" 
> > 
> >> It's 26-3127, 64K Color Computer 2, S/N 000454, and it has about five 
> >> warranty stickers over three different holes, including one that 
> >> normally doesn't get a screw, but apparently it did that day. 
> >> 
> >> Looking at it, there's no channel switch either, just a tin plate 
> >> behind the hole. 
> >> 
> >> Bob