[Coco][Color Computer] Looking for a Coco I 64k?

Neil Morrison neilsmorr at hotpop.com
Sat Nov 12 18:25:24 EST 2005



The early Coco I was indeed designed to use sets of defective 64K rams,
either all upper or all lower half good. The TRS-80 Model I was similarly
designed to use sets of defective 16K rams, either all upper or all lower
half good. I never saw this done or heard of it being done in either case.

Neil

----- Original Message -----
From: <PaulH96636 at aol.com>


> Yep, that is what I meant, and KEY-264K docs specifically said that

> piggybacked 32Ks

> would *not* work. I don't recall what it was that the piggybacked 32Ks

> did

> work with,

> perhaps OS9-L1, or small ram drive. IIRC it was production defective

> 64Ks

> which were

> sold as working 32Ks, so they could be piggybacked for a few

> applications.






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