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From: knudsen@ihwpt.UUCP (mike knudsen)
Newsgroups: net.micro.6809
Subject: Coco-III sighted and captured!
Message-ID: <1143@ihwpt.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 10-Oct-86 12:37:42 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 10 12:37:42 1986
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Last night (Thur 10/9) we saw and held a CoCo-III at the
Glenside Coco Club meeting.
It had been bought that same day, and is probably one of the
first to arrive in the western Chicago suburbs.
It was found at a plain old Radio Shack, not a Confuser Center.

All we saw on it was the "Wheel" Basic graphics test program
from the latest Rainbow mag.  Since there was a full evening's
activities and the owner had only had it a few hours,
nothing else was done.  Didn't even try the 40, 64, or 80 col
display.

As you probably know, you have to look pretty close even to
tell a Coco-III from the II.  The keyboard (same as sold for $5
in a few Shacks last year) has all the arrow keys in a left-side diamond
and a REAL CONTROL key -- but you've heard all that.

The back side is the same as ever except for two RCA jacks for
baseband composite video (still no monochrome!!!) and audio.

Look underneath for the RGB connector.  It has a nice channel
molded into the plastic case for the cord, like on the back of
wall-mount telephones.  Also in this channel is an intriguing
rectangular cavity with a couple of unused screw posts, that
looks like a place to tuck a modulator or some sort of adaptor
(a modulator of course wouldn't do much good on RGB, but it would
be better on your TV than the existing 128x192 4-color display).

Does anyone know whether the composite video out shuts off
when using the extended hi-res modes, or does it still try to
put out what it can?

Has anyone else seen one of these beasts?  Is this net group
still alive??	Has everyone died and gone to Delphi?  --mike k
-- 
Mike J Knudsen    ...ihnp4!ihwpt!knudsen
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