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Your situation is pretty good, mainly since you already have
a Multi-Pak and three floppy drives.

First, running printers out of the serial port does not load
down the machine all that much.

Second, the one piece of hardware you really need is a good old
PBJ WordPak that plugs into a Multi-Pak slot and generates honest 80
columns.  I and many other graduates to Coco-IIIs would be glad to
sell you one cheap, including the software drivers.

Third, whether you get a WordPak or just keep running TSEdit
on its graphic 80 columns, you'll need to scarf up a monochrome
monitor.  Used, you should get by under $50; new, around $80.
TV sets just don't hack it beyond games.  Lucky for you someone has
already added a monitor circuit to the old Coco.  Old gray Cocos
are very rugged and reliable, BTW.
An analog color monitor could be hooked up just to the Green lead,
depending on how the sync works.  Sounds great for a Coco-III
though.

Fourth, you should pick up OS-9 Level 1 at a RadShack (or used) for
$30 or so.  TSEdit includes an OS9 version.

I'd say never mind the hard disks at this time.
If you decide to upgrade to a Coco III and Level 2, your existing hardware
will still work.  May have to hackyou multi-pak a bit.
-- 
Mike Knudsen  Bell Labs(AT&T)   att!ihlpl!knudsen  knudsen@ihlpl.att.com
  Round and round the while() loop goes;
  "Whether it stops," Turing says, "no one knows!"