CoCo's *are* real... (was: OT: PC Motherboard with a vacuum tube

From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
Date: Fri Sep 6 17:44:00 2002

"tim lindner" <tlindner_at_ix.netcom.com> wrote (regarding the Radio Shack
Color Computer and Color Computer 2):
> What really sucked was the 32 column screen. I never bought one of the
> many 80 column cards, they were all serial based. Only useful under
> OS-9.

"Serial based"? The one I bought, the PBJ Word-Pak (sp?) didn't have
anything to do with serial. It had a 6845 (or maybe a 68045 or 6545,
I don't recall exactly) right on the bus.

They may have had some hack to use it from BASIC, but I only ran OS-9
anyhow.
Received on Fri Sep 06 2002 - 17:44:00 BST