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From: neals@tekigm.UUCP (Neal Sedell)
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Subject: Re: Tandy Color Computer 3 Description
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Date: Tue, 5-Aug-86 12:51:40 EDT
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Posted: Tue Aug  5 12:51:40 1986
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Summary:

After seeing Jim O's posting yesterday I went to the local Shack and
chatted with a COCO fan type salesman.  He said the enhanced extended
basic is now 32K of rom.  He also had a strong feeling that OS-9
level 2 would be out fairly soon.  He felt the analog RGB monitor
would be around $200 since the COCO is the only computer that uses
it.  Supposedly you can upgrade your COCO 1/2 to a 3 - the only catch
is that you have to replace your CPU.  In the training film he saw
that said this they went on to talk about the model 1000, and the
person in the film picked up the system unit and said "This is the
CPU" ;-)  For the price, I don't see how it would be economical to
provice the motherboard, new case (new output connector(s)) and new
keyboard along with service time for less than $220.  As far as
personal speculation, I doubt they provide any new expansion pins
since it must be backwards compatible.  As far as memory goes, I
don't think they would use 256Kx4's for the 512K upgrade since
I haven't seen them anywhere and the upgrade should be available
pretty soon (even if there's no truth in advertising).  I wouldn't
be suprised to learn you need to buy a daughterboard from RS though.

		Neal Sedell
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