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From: alan@grpthry.UUCP (Alan Whitton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m6809
Subject: CoCo II upgrade (is it worth it?)
Message-ID: <243@grpthry.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 8-Sep-87 11:41:01 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep  8 11:41:01 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 10-Sep-87 04:20:48 EDT
Organization: grouptheory systems inc., Ottawa, Canada
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help,

I have been pricing the CoCo III (N.B. I live in Canada, where prices
are as high as an elephant's eye) and I am wondering whether it would
be easier to upgrade my old CoCo II instead.

As it stands the system I currently have has not been used much and it
is an older version with an old keyboard (upgrade ~ $60), only 16K 
(upgrade to 64K ~ $70), and I would need a disk drive. What I would
use it for mostly (to begin with) is as a TERMINAL. I loathe using a
32x16 screen, but I have seen that PFS (?) terminal can be used with
an 80 Column mode.

Is this upgrade worth while? Will I get enough computing power? Will
I get a "usable" terminal? Is OS9 "usable" on a CoCo II?

Please mail responses to me directly as I am sure people may get upset
about a possible "holy war" between CoCo II and CoCo III users.

			alan whitton

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