1 Oct
2007
1 Oct
'07
1:03 p.m.
That brings to mind a surprise acquisition I got
recently from a mixed lot
on eBay: it's an original silver case CoCo 1 with
fairly low serial number,
but decked out with ECB 1.1, full 64KB, and a CoCo 3
keyboard. Were the
CoCo 3 keyboards available to the public before the
actual release of the
CoCo 3?
Not that I am aware of, although third party keyboards
were a popular upgrade at the time. I saw all kinds of
ads for them in Rainbow.
So, it might be a third party upgrade. If it's an
authentic part, then it's always possible that someone
pieced together the machine from other systems. I
don't recall if the CoCo 3 keyboard pinout will match
a CoCo 1, but it's possible. I also seem to remember
hacks people did, adding extra switches manually to
the matrix to add extra keys to the CoCo.
-Ian