[Coco] Interesting Ebay find.

[Phill Harvey-Smith]

Hi,

I've just bought from ebay UK, a white CoCo 2, in a CoCo 1 case, model 
number is 26-3026, the machine has standard color basic and 16K of ram.

Glen, mentions on his site that this model number is "reportedly" found 
on some CoCo1 sized Korean made CoCo 2s, sold in Australia. It would 
appear that they where also sold here in the UK, which makes sense as 
both use PAL/240V.

I have posted a couple of pictures here :-

http://daria.bio.warwick.ac.uk/~bshu/CoCo/White/

(warning 600k images :) ).

A couple of observations....

1) This definatly appears to be a CoCo 2, as it has the 28 pin custom 
chip that the 2 had (or at least my 2 other CoCo2s do :) ).

2) It seems to be fitted with a 68A09, which is a 1.5MHz rated part 
rather than a 1.0MHz, which is odd, but I guess that's what Tandy could 
get at the time.

3) Almost every major chip is socketed, even the VDG, however the basic 
ROM is not, however there is a spare socket for an ECB rom.

Cheers.

Phill.

-- 
Phill Harvey-Smith, Programmer, Hardware hacker, and general eccentric !

"You can twist perceptions, but reality won't budge" -- Rush.