On May 27, 2015 9:21:00 AM Razer
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.