Color Computing/OS-9..
Welcome to the Tandy Color Computer webpage. here we answer questions on our older: not made any more computers and the the NEWER OS-9 computers using the 68000 series chips. ..The AT-306..and others... we Speak OSK and OS-9 here,and maybe linux.. since it is in the family!
Text side GONE as of May 1, 2001. For more info see this forum message.
What's New
Dec 10, 2006:
The dates for the 16th Last Annual Chicago CocoFest are March 31st and April 1st 2007.
Dec 06, 2003: Updated link to the m6309 Micro Processor Project at http://users.zoominternet.net/~johncollyer/m6309.htm
Oct 18, 2003: Way Coool, a telnet CoCo BBS can be reached at telnet://65.161.254.20
Mar 29, 2003: Moved old news to coconews.htm
Mar, 2003: 10th Anniversary (roughly) of the Color Computer being discontinued by Tandy.
Mar 29, 2003: PC programs to work with CoCo based files/disks can be found at http://home.earthlink.net/~phxken/delphi/WEB/cocofile.html
Mar 23, 2003: 12 Annual "Last" Chicago CoCo Fest, May 17-18, 2003. Details at http://members.aol.com/clubbbs/glenside/
Mar 23, 2003: Jeff's emulator has been upgraded to 6309 by John Collyer. It can be found at http://users.zoominternet.net/~johncollyer/m6309.htm Best feature: RETRIEVE and DSKINI PC tools now fully support double sided disks!!!!
OCt 18, 2002: MESS 61.1 available at http://www.mess.org
May 24, 2002: Downland can be downloaded from Curtis' web page at http://nitros9.stg.net/downland.html
Oct 7, 2000: Bad news, sorry: New messages are still appearing, but they are NOT making it to textside. If you post textside, messages will still appear on the web, but they will NOT appear textside. The only way to read new messages is webside. It doesn't look like Delphi can fix this either.
Links
To join the mailing list, send mail to LISTSERV@PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU with the command (paste it!): SUBSCRIBE COCO
One of the BEST CoCo related sites on the web is the TRS-80 & Tandy Color Computer Homepage.
The first color computer...
The COCO 1 as we call it came out in Jan 81, there were a few released earlier around Nov 80. Iit had 4k of memory, and was expandable to 16k. Adding Extended basic as well completed the system. A TV set and a Cassette recorder added the ability to see your programs, and load/save your own from the book supplied.
Some of us more tech types got the data sheets and found out things that Tandy had in store later! Like 32k of memory, etc.. then came a disk drive system and 64k of memory.
This allowed switching the ROM memory off. In doing so, new operating systems could take over and run, instead of the BASIC one that was locked inside it!
The system that was chosen was OS-9 which in those days was: Faster, Multitasking, multiuser, and ran rings around the then $4000.00 IBM 64k computer...
What Windows does now, we were doing it back then! The only problem was memory, never enough.
That was taken care of in 86 with the release of the CoCo-3 a 128k standard: 512k max memory and hires graphics, RGB direct to Monitor, a composite video/audio port, AND! OS-9 Level II! which used the extra memory. DISTO, a company supplying all sorts of things for the computer came up with a way to expand the 512k memory to 2 meg!
Then in early 93, Tandy discontinued our computer, today it still lives as a Cheap reliable system, in its day it was way ahead in technology.. ..easy to use, a good teaching computer...
It still lives! HERE! on this Website!
***Welcome*** Enjoy!
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