[Coco] [Color Computer] Holy Mods Batman!

[Glen VanDenBiggelaar]

You right James,
I am in the process of getting a new scanner (i killed my old one) and I 
will be scanning the last 2 years (thats all I have now) of rainbow and they 
will be up on my website in PDF.
I think ther is a goldmine opertunity for the rights holder (if any) of 
those old publications to ether re-print the magazines in a book form or on 
CD in PDF form. I just got my first taste of the Rainbow (never saw them in 
the 80's or 90's here in Canada), and even though they are literaly falling 
apart, they hold a wealth of information- and its cool to see all the old 
Ads. The only bad thing is that last year of the Rainbow were printed in a 
"newspaper" form which when scanned, looks rather bad.
I have the first, second, third and fourth Rainbow book of adventures that 
will be up on my online store right away, although the first was just a 
magazine, and it is falling apart. I guess the previous owner used them too 
well, or just never took care of them.
-Glen



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>I've seen most of those in Rainbow magazine or other COCO magazines.

>HOT COCO had a lot of hardware projects.

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>My original COCO 1 has an internal amplifier, speaker, volume control,

>front reset button, composite and sound outputs, HJL keyboard and a

>heatsink on one of the chips.  I had the parts for the power LED and

>high speed LED but I didn't want to drill on the case anymore.  I

>started building a 128K upgrade but spent the money on a modem,

>printer, multi-pak interface, speech n sound pak, RS-232 pak,

>Orchestra 90CC pak, X-Pad and stuff like that instead of the RAM.

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>Given the fact that I made those upgrades and have many of the

>magazines I probably still have the articles.

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>I was ready to upgrade to a COCO3 but then I hooked up with a company

>developing for the Amiga and the COCO was soon stuffed into a closet.

>  So I don't have any post COCO3 magazines... at least no later than

>the first reviews.  I did eventually pick up a used COCO3 for $20 in

>the early 90's.

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>I think it would be a good idea everyone started scanning in their

>COCO magazines and books so they could be made available on a website

>or CD.  I still have a quite a few magazines and The 3rd Rainbow Book

>of Adventures I could scan but not all are in the best condition.

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>--- In ColorComputer at yahoogroups.com, "Jim Cox" <jimcox at m...> wrote:

> > On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 16:40:40 -0000

> >   "Dave" <dx375 at h...> wrote:

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> > > http://tinyurl.com/5h9n9

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> > > All I can say is....wow!

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> > > Wouldn't mind installing some of these mods in my parts

> > >CoCo 3 for

> > > fun....

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> > > Cheers Dave

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> > It would be nice if those mods were documented somewhere?

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> > -Jim

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