[Coco] Color Basic, Coco 1 "F" and 64K RAM...

[Ron]

Just answering my own question...  I found reference to a RAM test for 
in an older message on this list:

Bill Pierce via Coco 
<http://search.gmane.org/?author=Bill+Pierce+via+Coco&sort=date> | 28 
May 05:05 2014


      Re: CoCo 1/2 RAM test program?

Here's a disk image Robert Gault sent me. It has both a Coco 2 64k mem check as well as a Coco 3 mem check up to
8-meg. There's also a Coco 3 video tester.
For the Coco 1 & 2 uset the "64KTEST/BIN", for Coco 3 use "MEMTEST/BIN"

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23059963/Stuff/MEMTEST.DSK

Hope it works for ya:-)


On 8/17/2015 6:29 PM, Ron wrote:
> Hi Art, Sure enough, it was Color Basic 1.1 and not 1.0.  I was just 
> emailing Al about  this and how I could have missed it. In any case, I 
> was able to add the Extended Color Basic 1.0 ROM as well as perform 
> the necessary capacitor clipping, jumper setting and replace the 16K 
> of RAM with 64K.  The Coco powers on and everything *seems* OK, but 
> I'm looking for a 64K RAM test utility that runs under DECB.  Nothing 
> obvious on the Coco archive.  Would anyone have a memory testing 
> application for Coco 1's? Thanks! -Ron
> On 8/17/2015 6:54 AM, Ron Klein wrote:
>> Hi Art,
>> I'll check it again as soon as I get home from work.  I thought that 
>> is what is said, but I could be mistaken.  I know this is an earlier 
>> version of the "F" board Coco as I have the non-mylar keyboard with it.
>> Thanks
>> -Ron
>> On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 5:26 AM, Arthur Flexser <flexser at fiu.edu 
>> <mailto:flexser at fiu.edu>> wrote:
>>
>>     Are you absolutely sure you have Color Basic 1.0?  I'm surprised,
>>     since by the time there was an F board, I would think that
>>     version would have been obsolete. My E board came with Color
>>     Basic 1.1, and the E board predated the F board.  (EXEC 41175
>>     will display the Color Basic version.) If you bought the machine
>>     used, the previous owner may have swapped out the Color Basic it
>>     came with, so it's not an impossibility that you have 1.0. Art On
>>     Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 5:48 AM, Ron <ron at kdomain.org> wrote: >
>>     Hello, > > I have a Coco 1 "F" board version that I will upgrade
>>     from 16K to 64K of > RAM.  It currently has Color Basic 1.0.  Do
>>     I need to upgrade the version > of Color Basic to support the 64K
>>     RAM upgrade?  I will adding Extended > Color Basic 1.0 to the
>>     computer as well (thanks, Al)! > > Thanks for any help anyone can
>>     provide! > > -Ron > > > > -- > Coco mailing list >
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