[Coco] Did this really happen?

[Bruce W. Calkins]

Nobody in the "old" cays made 512k badges, so most CoCo 3s with 512k 
said 128k.

Bruce W.


On 9/5/21 6:16 PM, M. David Johnson wrote:
> Before I get too excited, I'd like someone, more proficient than I, to
> confirm my apparent unexpected blessing.
> 
> When the second one arrived, it also said "128K Color Computer 3" on the
> top. But it had something rattling around loose inside the case. When I
> opened it up I discovered that it had empty sockets where I expected the RAM
> chips to be. And the thing rattling around loose was an L-shaped board with
> sixteen MCM6256AP12 chips on it (each a 256K x 1 RAM I believe, implying a
> total of 512K x 8 memory).
> 
> Have I judged correctly?
> 
> And, could the CoCo 3 512K Memory Checker available on the CoCo Archive be
> used to double-confirm this?
> --
> M. David Johnson
> mdj at bds-soft.com
> 
>