[Coco] Coco2 on eBay without Extended Color Basic ?

Little John sales at gimechip.com
Fri Oct 29 16:44:38 EDT 2010


I actually bought one on clearance that was configured the same way as this
back in 85 or 86 (except it was NTSC) - can't remember which year 85/86. It
only had standard BASIC, so I ordered an upgrade from CRC. Of course the one
I bought way back then may have been a different catalog number than the
26-3127B, but it had the 74LS785 and 6847T1 - it's been a lot of years. Note
the seller states that the warranty seal is still intact on this machine as
well.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Darren A" <mechacoco at gmail.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 9:55 AM
Subject: Re: [Coco] Coco2 on eBay without Extended Color Basic ?



> On 10/29/10, Fedor Steeman wrote:

>>

>> Looking at the startup screen, I can see that it only has Color Basic,

>> not

>> Extended! But weren't all these CoCo2 models equipped with Extended?

>> Could

>> someone have swapped the ROMs or is it perhaps defect? I may have some

>> spare

>> ROM for it, if I would go for it.

>>

>

> ---

>

> I would say that it is somewhat odd. The catalog number on the bottom

> is 26-3127B. That number refers to a 64K Extended Basic machine. I

> have a couple of those, and in both cases there is a single 16K

> combined ROM soldered to the motherboard (no socket).

>

> The last CoCo 2 models that came with only Color Basic were the

> 26-3134A and 26-3134B and had 16K of factory RAM.

>

> Darren

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