[Coco] [Color Computer] Newly acquired Coco!

[Steve Batson]

I had one of the original battle ship gray 4K CoCo's without Extended Color 
Basic way back when. I had to buy the Extended Basic Chip and plug it in. I 
also eventually upgraded the RAM on that system to 64K. It couldn't use the 
entire 64K, If I remember correctly, I had some stuff installed that let 
you do bank switching, but don't really recall how it all worked.

Anyway, either find the Extended Basic chip or get a Coco 2 as suggested.

If you just plan to tinker with some basic programming, it may be easier to 
just get one of the CoCo emulators and mess with that before you put too 
much time and money into hardware. At least that way you can decide if you 
will even use the thing or not.

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From: "Susan Baker" <susanfe at att.net>
Sent: Monday, January 16, 2012 2:41 PM
To: ColorComputer at yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Coco] [Color Computer] Newly acquired Coco! 

I'm not entirely sure how serious I'm going to get with this thing. So far 
it has been a fun distraction though. I pulled the case and find a chip 
with 
scm90590p
804036A
Tandy C 81
,rev 1.1 82 37

There is an empty socket next to it. Is this where I would put the upgrade 
chip, if one was to be found?

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