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Jason Simpson wrote: Reports are that you can still get CP/M from Trisoft in Texas. You'll most likely find it as part of a package with another member of the family -- better hope so, because if they were separated, the adapter card will have stayed with the CPU. The only network card ever available was Arcnet, which only ran in Z-80 mode and was only compatible with other Model 2/12/16/6000 machines -- it won't talk to a network with PeeCees, even Tandy's ViaNet. And there were some compatibility problems with the Arcnet version of TRS-DOS. Best bet there is to keep an eye on comp.sys.tandy and comp.os.os9 newsgroups. The MultiPak interface shows up now and again in the thrift shops, RAM expansion for the Color Computer 1/2 is standard chips, RAM expansion for the Color Computer 3 is generally found inside a Color Computer 3 and can be hard to spot without some disassembly required. In fact, without OS-9 Level II, there is no way to detect memory expansion in a Color Computer 3 easily -- well, I suppose there might be a short machine-language program that could be poked in, but I wouldn't know the details -- I drifted away from the Color Computer line for a few years starting right about when the Color Computer 3 was released, and I acquired OS-9 Level II before I found my three expanded CoCo 3's at the Trenton Computer Festival this past spring (and I still haven't had time to play with them much). What precisely do you mean by "Accelerator"? I've heard that there is a way to replace the CoCo 3 CPU with a ?Hitachi? chip, but I haven't been tracking the details. Somewhere around here I've got a copy of some FAQ or other that might mention it. (There's a good set of links for most of the TRS-80 line by Irs Goldklang at <http://www.trs-80.com/> -- Model 1/3/4, 2/12/16/6000, 100/200, and Color Computer -- the MS-DOS stuff is ignored). -- Ward Griffiths <mailto:gram@cnct.com> <http://www.cnct.com/home/gram/> When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked me if I had any firearms with me. I said "Well, what do you need?" -- Steven Wright