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Subject: Forth in the Marketplace
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Date: 4 Mar 91 13:19:50 GMT
Organization: (n.) to be organized.  But that's not important right now.
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Category 2,  Topic 11
Message 101       Sat Mar 02, 1991
F.SERGEANT [Frank]           at 17:14 CST
 
 GS> Some of the products advertised included Armadillo Forth for the 
 GS> Radio Shack Color Computer (Frank Sergeant, know anything about 
 GS> them ?)
 .
 Yes, I do!  I wrote that Forth for the 6809 RS Color Computer that  Armadillo
was selling.  I've learned a lot since then.  One of these  days I'll put
Pygmy on the Color Computer.  I still run Color Forth as  I have my EPROM
programmer plugged into a CoCo.  I load a tiny boot  loader from a cassette
recorder into the CoCo and then download the  Color Forth image into the CoCo
from the PC (that way I don't have to  fool with CoCo disks drives, which
never were worth a damn, in my  opinion, besides which, the EPROM programmer
is plugged into the  cartridge connector that the disk controller would want
to use).  Then  I use the PC as a terminal and disk server to talk to the
CoCo,  download the EPROM image, etc.  The CoCo is a lousy system to get for 
your main, full-featured, word-processing, massive memory & disk  computer
system.  This is because by the time you add a disk, memory,  decent terminal,
etc  you'll have more invested than if you got a PC  clone.  BUT, for a
dedicated computer, where you use your existing PC  as terminal & disk server,
it is not a bad deal.  I think you can often  find the CoCo III available
discount mail-order for around $100.  It  comes with 128K RAM (upgradable to
512K), serial port, cassette  interface, color graphics (to a TV or a color
monitor), A to D, D to A,  etc.  And, it uses a great microprocessor (the
Motorola 6809).  Ah fond  (and otherwise) memories ...
 .
 Thanks for your DDJ review, I enjoyed it.
 .
 -- Frank
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