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From: jejones@mcrware.UUCP (James Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os9,comp.sys.m6809,comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: coconet
Summary: Tandy only knows
Keywords: CoCo, networking
Message-ID: <1201@mcrware.UUCP>
Date: 28 May 89 13:46:58 GMT
References: <406@bbm.UUCP>
Reply-To: jejones@mcrware.UUCP (James Jones)
Organization: Microware Systems Corp., Des Moines, Iowa
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In article <406@bbm.UUCP> jim@bbm.UUCP (Jim White) writes:
>What ever happened to networking of coco2's for educational buyers?

That's something you should probably ask Tandy.  All I know is this--long
ago, when I was a poor student (and impoverished, too :-) in Oklahoma, a
Tandy computer catalog, on the page describing networking for their Model
4s or something of that sort, there was a sentence that read "for the
Model <n>, and soon for the Color Computer..."

Somewhat later, I bought the Level One version 2.00.00 upgrade, and the
*table of contents* had an entry labeled "Networking." If you looked on
the indicated page, though, you'd find nothing at all about networking.
The only thing I can figure is that Tandy came very close indeed to
supporting networking for CoCos under OS-9.  For some reason, though,
they must have decided against it, and didn't quite do a good enough job
of editing out all references to it from the upgrade manual.  (I don't
think Tandy computer catalogs referred to networking for the CoCo after
that.)

So...if you want networking for the CoCo, I would say you should ask
Tandy about it.

	James Jones

(The above is solely my opinion, and based on information known to me
long ago, before I even knew I'd wind up where I am now.)