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Tandy Radio Shack Color Computer

I currently have a 16K Color Computer (CoCo) 1, a 64K CoCo 2 and a 128K CoCo 3. I have a floppy drive and an SDC drive. I intend to get the Boomerang E2 2048kB SRAM with CPU Guardian+ board. The intention is to get 2M of RAM and demostrate OS9's multitasking and multiuser capabilities.

The CoCo 1, I think I'll keep that stock though I need to fix the top as it's been damaged from sitting on the bottom of the pile of something. But keeping it stock will keep it in it's historic state. Yes we actually started off witht he basics and built up from there. I also have a Radio Shack Tape Player. so I can demostrate loading and saving. I may cheat a bit and put a microcontroller on the cassette port.

The CoCo 2 and the CoCo 3 will get PyDriveWire interfaces. This will allow me to avoid the disk drives and floppies which are getting more unreliable with age.