by admin | Aug 3, 2025 | Uncategorized
Symphony 12 by Speech Systems When it comes to sound, the stock CoCo (1, 2 or 3) are limited to the DAC. While a lot can be done with the DAC, as well as compressed audio samples, all of the coco models have been hamstrung for audio capability, when compared...
by admin | Jun 22, 2025 | Uncategorized
Floppy Storage Need Solved What to do when you buy floppies and realize you have no safe storage? Then you realize the zip-lock baggie they were sent in may provide safety from dust, but noting else. Well, when you have a 3d printer and some free time to design...
by admin | May 18, 2025 | Uncategorized
Cooling a hot blooded TDP-100 With the heating issues this TDP was facing, I decided to go another route. Yes, the original design was cool (I thought, anyway) but was way over designed in some ways with a focus that wasn’t on the area that needed to be cooled....
by admin | May 15, 2025 | Uncategorized
Cooling a hot blooded TDP-100 My TDP-100 isn’t really a TDP-100. It’s an ‘F’ board CoCo. I won an auction, the CoCo 1 was badly damaged in shipping; this gave me the opportunity to utilize a TDP-100 shell I bought from Tony Padroza a number of...
by admin | Feb 4, 2025 | Color Computer 1, Color Computer 2, Color Computer 3, Uncategorized
Donkey King or Kong? In the early 80’s, arcade games were all the rage, and having the best home port version often, and very sadly, lead to the belief that the system the ‘best’ version of a game was on was indeed, the best system. I distinctly...
by admin | Mar 5, 2024 | Hardware, Uncategorized
July 1983 Rainbow Magazine I HAVE SPENT THE BETTER PART OF A YEAR LOOKING FOR THIS. IN 1983 MY FATHER BUILT A ‘STAND’ FOR MY COCO 1. I THOUGHT THE ORIGINAL DESIGN FOR IT CAME FROM POPULAR MECHANICS. AFTER THUMBING THRU THE ISSUES OF ‘THE...
