On May 27, 2015 9:21:00 AM Razer <[email protected]> wrote:
On 05/26/2015 02:57 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > Whoa! 16k! That's -twice- what my CoCo (Tandy color computer for all > yous whippasnappas) Trashy80s had more than 8K didn't they? My Coco3 came with 128 (I upgraded to 512 but never got around to the hard drive kit nor did I ever get the thing run 9600 baud using OS9 l2 with hacked kernel and RS232pak.) It was a "warm" Coco, not a Hot CoCo (RIP Wayne Green, 73 & Hot CoCo magazine) Kept the thing for years after MS-Dos took over the PC market just to illustrate how crappy MS-Dos was, but eventually, like the Epson, it was retired to the dustbin of (computer) history. But there's probably a number of Commodore128s sitting on remote mountaintops as ham radio repeater controllers. Someone wrote a software suite for the Commodore that did that quite well (including remote control capabilities) and until the thing took a lightning strike, why bother replacing it?
As of a couple of years ago, there was at least one Commodore being used as a repeater here in the great PNW. Can't vouch for present day as I have slacked off on my ham radio activities.
My original Trash-80 had 4mb. That was the one where you could put the portable AM radio next to it and use it as a speaker! Mmm, radiation ...
I had that Trash-80 and a Timex Sinclair in my cabinet 'o crap for ages, thenI somehow lost track of them during a move. How sad.
-Shelley, looking for the Geritol.
