Jason,
Let me know if you get the 6000HD. I have two of them.
Joe
At 11:21 AM 9/10/98 -0700, you wrote:
>Thanks for the reply. Sure helps me narrow my search a bit.
>
>That Tandy 6000HD mentioned a day or two ago on the list sounds mighty
interesting!
>
> -jrs
>
>
>Ward Donald Griffiths III wrote:
>>
>> Jason Simpson wrote:
>>
>> > Some things I'd like to find:
>> >
>> > Model 16 stuff:
>> > CP/M (CP/M-68k?) on 8" disks **
>>
>> Reports are that you can still get CP/M from Trisoft in Texas.
>>
>> > Harddisk **
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> > Network card (did it do Ethernet, or only Arcnet?)
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> > Color Computer stuff:
>> > OS/9 disks **
>> > RAM expansion
>> > Multicartridge adapter
>> > Accelerator
>>
>> 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_at_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
>
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Received on Thu Sep 10 1998 - 18:48:14 BST