Intecolor Terminal Acquisition Report

Picked up a spiffy Intecolor terminal for free today. I recall one, circa 83 or so, used as the console on an HVAC system at my University. They were really nice, IIRC. What's more interested, however, is WHERE I picked it up...from an employee at Microware in West Des Moines. I got to see their new building that they moved into last year. For those of you who don't know, they are the company that sells OS-9, used on things like Cocos alot. At any rate, I never saw so much cool OS-9 stuff in my life! The guy who gave me the terminal was showing me some websites where people are doing some of the most amazing things with Cocos. One URL is http://bullsbarn.stg.net/, which is the home page for Penn Fest, which is a weekend long fest for those into Coco's. Some cool images. People are expanding Coco's with real I/O, 4 mhz upgrades by turning off some of Tandy's custom chips, 2 and 4 megabyte RAM upgrades, make the graphics chip do more colors than it's supposed to be able to do. IDE interfaces, SCSI interfaces. I'm not into Coco stuff personally but I was impressed at what folks are doing. Just thought I'd share the fun. Anthony Clifton - Wirehead