[Coco] Introducing the next generation of Color Computer, the CoCo-X

Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus) retrocanada76 at gmail.com
Thu Mar 21 09:31:38 EDT 2013


The main thing is the final price.

The original coco3 outputs15Khz RGB which no longer exists. Making it VGA
31Khz wouldn't add any extra cost right? Maybe a jumper to switch between
15/31Khz ? That would be a good start for me. Keeping everything else as
original.

On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 9:49 PM, <lciotti1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> This happens a lot, even more so in the government contracting world.
>
> The problem with this project, like any other project that is developed in
> an open environment is every one has idea of how things "should" be.
>
> In all reality how much of a lifespan and market is this going to have?
>  Right now we are part of a group that hacks away with a 30 year old
> computer, is it really going to matter if some thing is developed with
> technology the is a generation or two behind?
>
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> Subject: Re: [Coco] Introducing the next generation of Color Computer,
>  the CoCo-X
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> On Mar 20, 2013, at 8:40 PM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:
> > You might not find man PS/2 devices in a retail store, but they are
> > still being made for the business and high end markets and easy to
> > acquire.
>
> I could see this as being true. My work PC at "unnamed large financial
> institute I no longer work for" still have a floppy drive until the last
> one they replaced it with...even though in five years, not once did I ever
> have need for a floppy disk.
>
> And we all ran Windows XP, a ten year old operating system :)
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