[Coco] CoCo TALK #18 an introduction to OS9

[Steve Strowbridge]

@Arthur Flexsure, the Deluxe Color Computer was the CoCo that almost was,
it was covered in Boisey and Bill's book, it was an enhanced CoCo 1, with a
built in Speech Sound Pack and the CoCo 3 keyboard, however, the project
was scrapped and only the keyboards were saved, that would either be a part
you could order, or, would wake their way to the CoCo 3.

There is a version of the Extended Color BASIC manual, available on the
Color Computer Archive, where the reference to the Deluxe Color Computer is
mentioned several times, even some of it's function keys.

The Color Computer 4, as far as I can tell, never got past prototype
phases, and there was a picture of that in the same book, with a built-in
3.5" floppy drive,, kine of like the slim-line Tandy 1000 models.


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On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 1:21 PM, Peter Cetinski <pete at pski.net> wrote:

>
>
> Pete
>
> > On Jul 24, 2017, at 12:20 PM, Wayne Campbell <asa.rand at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > The Model 6000 was a 68000 system with a Z80 co-processor. I read
> somewhere
> > once that Tandy tried pairing a 6809 as a co-processor with the 68000,
> and
> > it ran circles around the 6000 with the Z80. Why they did not pursue that
> > line I do not know, other than Tandy's thinking was already geared
> towards
> > PC compatibles and wasn't interested in pursuing the TRS-80 line anymore.
>
> The Z-80 was required.  They needed to keep backwards compatibility with
> all of the Z-80 based Model II software, including a lot of TRSDOS and CP/M
> titles.
>
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