[Coco] RAM SIZE INPUT mystery (solved)

Chuck Youse cyouse at serialtechnologies.com
Sat Sep 27 19:20:58 EDT 2008


On Sun, 2008-09-28 at 08:10 +1000, Nickolas Marentes wrote:
> Thanks Chuck. That explanation as to what the RAM SIZE INPUT & OUTPUT 
> pins are on the CoCo3 makes sense.
> 
> Holding down the F2 key simulates setting the RAM SIZE jumpers of the 
> CoCo1/2 for 4K for old software that actually looks at this. I'm not 
> aware of which programs needed this but for the sake of compatibility it 
> has been included it would seem.

Oooooh.. I stand corrected then about the significance of its connection
to the keyboard.  Looks like RAMSZ is connected to the keyboard column
that has F2 on it!  Resulting in the behavior you described.

C.





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