It looked like a very thick keyboard (like the later [Commodore VIC]? and used a Z80. |
It looked like a very thick keyboard (like the later [Commodore VIC]? and used a Zilog Z80 procesor. |
A British clone of the Coco was called the Dragon 32 . |
A British clone of the Coco was called the Dragon 32 . |
Tandy later came with the TRS-80 model 16, which was a totaly different UNIX based (it used Microsofts Xenix)16 bit system (68000 plus Z80), and the Model 3, a more integrated and much improved model 1.
Tandy also produced the TRS-80 Color Computer (Coco) using a Motorola 6809 processor. This machine was clearly aimed at the home market, where the Model 2 and above were sold as business machines. It competed directly with the Commodore 64
The Coco 1 came with 4K of RAM. It used a regular TV for a display, had an expansion slot for program cartidges or a floppy disk controller. Later models (Coco2 and Coco3) increased the RAM to 16K and 128K. The Coco came with a version of Microsoft Basic in ROM. It had an expansion slot that could be used to insert program cartridges, or even an external floppy drive. A version of OS-9? - a UNIX like operating system - could be run from the floppy, including a [C compiler]?.
A British clone of the Coco was called the Dragon 32 .