[Coco] Interesting Ebay find.

[Glen VanDenBiggelaar]

Sounds very interesting, but I suspect a "thown together system".The 3004A 
systems were 16K "f"boards that could be upgraded to 64K. They were all (as 
far as I can tell- I had 4 of the beasts) silver -Grey shells. I would 
suspect someone had a non-working TDP and a Broken 3004A that had been 
upgraded and "merged" them. The nice thing about those "f" boards, is they 
had a Mylar connector for the keyboard, making the CoCo2 and CoCo 3 
keyboards usable on them without a bit of soldering.
Your unit is a collectable or keeper just the same, because I don't think we 
will ever find a true answer from RS.



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> > > 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.
> >...
> >Your board looks like a CoCo 2 board. How deep is that case? Is it CoCo
> >1 or 2 size? I've never seen a CoCo 2 with the vents in that 
>configuration.
> >
> >The TDP-100 also was different:
> >
> >http://www.doki-doki.net/~lamune/computers/coco/10-1010/
> >
>-
>I also purchased an interesting CoCo off eBay several months ago. It is the
>same case design shown in the pictures of the TDP-100, but it has a "Radio
>Shack TRS-80" badge instead of a TDP-100. The Catalog Number on the bottom
>is 26-3004A. Inside is a CoCo 1 64K F board. It has a CoCo 3 style 
>keyboard,
>but the bezel is black rather than the gray found on my CoCo 3.
>
>Does anyone know if Radio Shack ever shipped such a beast, or is it more
>likely that someone just pieced together different parts and replaced the
>TDP-100 badge with one from a CoCo?
>
>Darren
>
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