[Coco] Kaypro II cased CoCo3

[Frank Swygert]

Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 16:33:07 -0300 From: Juan Castro 
<jccyc1965 at gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Coco] Coco Items for sale On Wed, 
Feb 26, 2014 at 2:21 PM, Frank Swygert <farna at amc-mag.com> wrote: It's 
almost too bad the Kaypro II works! I mounted a CoCo3 in one long ago 
and used it at several CoCoFests. I used the monitor and drives, and 
mounted a CoCo3 keyboard in the cover with a ribbon cable. Used a DB-25 
connector on the front for the keyboard. Was a neat machine, nice an 
portable -- copied many disks with it at 'fests!

Now THAT is cool! Do you still have that contraption?

Juan
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Sorry Juan, I sold it and my CoCo 3 repackaged in a Tandy 2000 case around 1999 when I stopped using it much. Felt it was better to pass them both along to someone who still wanted to use them rather than sticking in a closet somewhere. Wish I'd kept the "CoCo 2000" though. It had two double sided 360K 5.25" floppies, a 720K 3.5" floppy, and a small SCSI HD (I forget exact size... 30 GB?). The HD was interfaced with a Disto SCII and partially defective 4-n-1 board (or as it a 3-n-1?). one of the other ports on the board was bad so I got it at a good discount at a fest directly from Tony D himself. I mounted the 3.5" floppy in the center of the case on top of the HD -- cut a hole in the case for the 3.5" floppy of course!

I don't have the computers, but there are write-ups on both repacks in "the world of 68' micros". Don't recall which ones -- they may not be in the archives, but I think they are since they would have been in about the middle of the magazine run.

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Frank Swygert
Editor - American Motors Cars Magazine
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