14 Jun
2005
14 Jun
'05
5:16 p.m.
I believe the videotex terminal was the predecessor to
the coco 1. It's
motherboard was based on Motorola's reference design for the 6809.
I was under the impression that the CoCo was sold first (which was
designed first is another matter). The CoCo 1 design is very close to the
Motorola app note for the 6883 SAM...
The videotex machine was silver. The later white coco 1's were general
Early CoCo1s were silver too...
purpose machines (I'm not sure if they all had 64K
but maybe). At the
very least they had a different keyboard.
The original chiclet keyboard has one advantage-- you can put a template
over it to give special meaning to each key, and these templates were
shipped with some programs.
YEs, I have a couple. I can't remember which programs they're for,
though, and I am not going to hunt for them to check...
-tony