[Coco] colorburst

[Salvador Garcia]

I suspect that more than 50% of the price was for the RAM expansion. 1MB was a humongous amount or RAM at that time, not to mention the necessary interface electronics to make it usable with the CoCo.


Salvador




-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Pierce via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Cc: Bill Pierce <ooogalapasooo at aol.com>
Sent: Sun, Jul 5, 2015 12:07 am
Subject: Re: [Coco] colorburst


Art, I never saw a review of the ColorBurst (I didn't have all isseues either),
but if it didn't exist, they at least did a good mockup of the case for the ad
photo (not a drawing).
And the Tandy MPI was already out at the time, so pricing
probably was an issue with most people who saw the
ad.

https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1985-07


PDF page 122 (page#
116)
The company was "MAXSYS Electronics & Software Co."


 

 


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-----Original Message-----
From: Arthur Flexser <flexser at fiu.edu>
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Sent: Sun, Jul 5, 2015
12:33 am
Subject: Re: [Coco] colorburst


I would certainly think, if the thing
actually existed, that they would
have
sent one to Rainbow to be reviewed.  Has
anybody checked to see if
there was
ever a review of it?

Art

On Fri, Jul 3,
2015 at 12:50 PM, Robert Hermanek
<rhermanek at centurytel.net>
wrote:

> I'm
guessing, based on the radio silence
here on the list, and the fact
> that
google comes up with nothing good, that
this thing never existed.
> Which is a
little disconcerting... I'm used to con's
in the internet age,
> but was the
half page ad in the rainbow a fake? Or at
best maybe a
> prototype that never
got any orders...
>
> On 7/2/2015 1:07 PM,
Michael Brant wrote:
>
>> I just
looked at the ad, that looks pretty
interesting.  Curiosity is now
>>
piqued.
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 12:24 AM,
Robert Hermanek <
>>
rhermanek at centurytel.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>  I was just
paging through Rainbow
July '85 and saw an ad for "Colorburst"
>>> which looks
like a six slot MPI with
apparently a built in 1 meg
>>> expansion
>>> for
$999.
>>>
>>> Was this ever a
real thing?  Anyone know how the "memory
expansion"
>>> functioned?  Anybody got
one?
>>>
>>>
>
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