Higgsbason wrote:That is amazing! I first learned to program on a Trash-80. I am really, really impressed that you have that machine. That is worth much money dude.
Cheerzo!
Me too. First computer ever. I had the 1 first with just ECB... but then adulthood struck... someone gave me a 128K 3 with a Drive 0 FD-502 and the controller required to work with a CoCo 3. There is a huge difference in those controllers. That is WHY the drive and the controller pak has to be purchased separately. The CoCo 3
cannot supply the required voltage the controller pak needs and if you want to stick it in a CoCo 3, you need a MPI [Multi-Pak Interface], MacGuyver together an external power supply, or cough up the money to your friendly [*cough*yeah right*cough*] neighborhood Rat Shack for the controller. Now even though Radio Shack now claims they're going back to their "roots" which is an epic FAIL, people now know them as either "Best Buy Wannabe Boutique" or a store where you can buy a cell phone and yes, walk out with that cell phone and probably paid too much for it...
That aside, that screenshot was taken in MESS from my own ROMs. My CoCo 3 is in storage. Sometimes I want to take it out and try
DriveWire on it... in which I have a crude Ethernet interface someone whipped up for me to emulate a modem at 9600 bps in my SERIAL I/O port and I SSH into my Ubuntu box with that thing... and then at my "bootloop2dope@thejuggadolls-org:~$" prompt, launch lynx and I have a sweet ANSI terminal surfing the web on a computer released in the 1980s. Someone on the TRS-80 / Color Computer group on Facebook of which I am a member of actually modified that software (it runs on OS-9, but it doesn't drop me at an "OS9:" prompt) that if any picture on a webpage is found, there will be a "link" that even though I'm running Lynx on my Ubuntu box which does not show pictures, but will call wget on my box to download it, convert it to a format compatible with the CoCo 3's palette, page off to another OS-9 page and display it, all with a stroke of the ENTER and BREAK keys... (ENTER "clicks" the link. "BREAK" is a standard OS-9 function to switch between 64K memory pages. In [D]ECB, that halts the program execution... but if you don't want to show "BREAK IN 1337" you insert a line saying something like "1 ON BRK GOTO 31337" which will cleanly end treating the BREAK key as an ESC key. Of course, the ON BRK/ON ERR GOTO statement is CoCo 3-only...)
The Tandy/Radio Shack Color Computer: 1981-1991 Keep on Running. RadioShack may not sell you any more (not even selling Plug-N-Play systems like someone did with the Atari 2600 and the like), but keep on running. The Motorola 6809 was the best choice for CPU for you.
And yeah, a TRS-80 Color Computer 3, just the computer alone, no extras besides what came in the box, it should go for no more than $100 on eBay with shipping, depending on condition. There is a place in Minnesota,
Cloud-9 Technology, sells CoCo 3's, in two condition levels, Level A is near-mint, Level B is running, just cosmetically flawed but runs perfectly nonetheless. B 3's are about $70. A 3's are $100. Now throw in a disk drive, an MPI, and all that, now that is extra cash needing to be laid out.
But, I think Madelyn is wanting the spotlight here... even though Jenny and Maddie would let me talk for hours about the TRS-80 Color Computer here, but Madelyn needs the attention here too...
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and one person had the video up... "This video is unavailable in your country." WTF? My locale in YouTube is set correctly... and if I recall correctly, Diamond Rio was formed in the United States... This is why I'm using Internet Archive for my video hosting from now on...)
