29 Dec
1998
29 Dec
'98
5:16 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
Yes, but few micros were as good as a CoCo, particularly if you added
OS-9 to it. And the CoCo 3 (OK, it came out several years later) is still
my favourite home computer of all time. The 6809 is a very nice chip.
Tell me about it. I'm converting a Compaq luggable to an OS-9 Level2
machine (still haven't found a good colour tube for it, but even so
I'll have it going hopefully in a couple weeks) with some CoCo 3 bits
and pieces and the gutted Compaq case I found. Been in love with OS-9
since the day I met it.
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Has
anyone ever seen an IBM PC without disk drives? I certainly never have.
Yup. Unimpressed me. Cost a bloody fortune and wasn't as good as a
Radio Shack Color Computer, let alone the TRS-80 Model 2 that'd been