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To: Stoat

My Color Computer came with 4k memory.

With great trepidation I cracked it and up graded to a whopping 64K


4 posted on 04/01/2012 6:28:54 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 ..... Crucifixion is coming)
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To: bert

My first computer was an XT with an 8088 processor, 4.77 MHz, 640K ram, no hard drive, two floppy drives, and a dazzling 4-color display monitor (including white). No internet of course. I probably had more fun with that one than any others since.


6 posted on 04/01/2012 6:35:25 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder (The right thing is not always the popular thing)
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To: bert

Lucky guy.

I couldn’t afford that much memory awesomeness.


39 posted on 04/01/2012 7:43:49 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: bert

Which model of CoCo?

The last ones could go up to 512K and could support OS9 Level II, using a memory control device called a “GIME” chip. It would have been slightly more capable if Tandy had used Motorola’s 6829 memory mapping chip.

I had a couple different CoCos, including one marketed through Tandy. I did get OS9 level II running on it.

I have a couple of connections to those HW and SW products.

People are still supporting the CoCo, with advanced video and storage add-ons. There’s a couple of annual meetings of CoCo partisans, one of them near Chicago.


60 posted on 04/01/2012 8:26:39 AM PDT by Erasmus (BHO: New supreme leader of the homey rollin' empire.)
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