![]() I can't help but think that it was a plot made up by Compu$erve to get money from farmers. 2520871Įrr, wasn't the Model III the successor to the Model I?Īnonymous Mon Jul 6 21:47:22 2015 No. If the CoCo was supposed to replace the Model I, why were there three more models of the standard TRASH-80 afterwards?Īnonymous Mon Jul 6 21:45:54 2015 No. ![]() Woops, I thought I edited out the part where I forgot you needed to double press runĪnonymous Mon Jul 6 21:45:42 2015 No. The Tandy 1000 effectively superseded them in 1985 as Tandy's entry in the home/educational computer market.Īnonymous Mon Jul 6 21:44:21 2015 No. CoCos were never terribly successful, one reason being a lack of advertising by Radio Shack. Unfortunately, this power came at a price as Tandy had to skimp on the computer's audiovisual capabilities to keep the price down, unlike Atari and Commodore who used the cheaper, more primitive 6502 and thus could devote more of their budget to the sound and graphics hardware. The CoCo used the Motorola 6809 CPU, which was the most powerful 8-bit microprocessor available. It was originally designed as a terminal, but then made into a full-fledged computer and introduced in 1980 to replace the TRS-80 Model I, which had to be discontinued due to FCC regulations being extended to cover microcomputers. It was part of a government funded project, that's why it doesn't make much senseĪnonymous Mon Jul 6 21:42:52 2015 No. Only thing that sucks is the lack of backlight? How hard would it be to hack up a makeshift backlight or maybe replace it with a new LCD that had one?Īnonymous Mon Jul 6 21:41:34 2015 No. Maybe I can get it online and get some news/weather on it. I'm thinking maybe tracker/keeper or something. #Sim tower runs slow dosbox windows 3.1 portableI really want to get real use out of this, the keyboard is the best keyboard in a portable hands down. Source? If that's true that's an especially weird market to appeal to, the last demographic I'd consider selling a computer toĪnonymous Mon Jul 6 21:37:47 2015 No. 2520845ĭid you guys know that the Tandy TRS-80 Colour Computer was originally intended to be used by farmers? They intended for farmers to be able to connect it to an ordinary television and a phone line and then be able to see things like weather reports, crop stocks, agriculture news, et ceteraĪnonymous Mon Jul 6 21:36:22 2015 No. PC98, 圆8k, and other system's Game database: Īs always, don't hesitate to suggest links to be added to the new threadĪnonymous Mon Jul 6 21:32:51 2015 No. Not Allowed : Late 90s games and computers, Pentium PCs or more, PPC Macs and more, Windows 95 and later ![]() ![]() Tolerated : Unkown, unsupported or not really popular post-95 stuff (BeOS, old Linux, stuff like this) We talk about games and the hardware they were made for, either micro, mini or mainframe computers, desktop, tower or all in keyboard package, from the USA, Europe, Japan, or anywhere, if the platform came out before 1995.ĭon't hesitate to share tips, your past (or present) experiences, your new machines, your already existing collection, emulation & hardware advises, as well as shots, ads & flyers, videos, interviews, musics, photos, that kind of stuff.Īllowed : Computers made from the 70s to Windows 3.x (Windows 95 and up stuff not allowed) and their games (of course), peripherals for these computers from any time period (MIDI expanders included) Welcome to the 70s to early 90s Computer Gaming General. ħ0s-90s Computer General Anonymous Mon Jul 6 21:22:25 2015 No. ![]()
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