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Category Archives: TRS-80
The Tandy CoCo to Get Its Own ‘Soul of a New Machine’
Ever since reading The Soul of a New Machine, Tracy Kidder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the creation of a 32-bit minicomputer, I’ve been a hound for any such works offering behind-the-scenes looks at such periods of silicon genesis. They are, to me, … Continue reading
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Liber809 – The Motorola 6809 Gets a New Platform
Regular readers might recall a post a few months back that (in, sadly, not the ideal fashion) revealed my acquisition of a Tandy Color Computer 3 system in order to spend some time with a platform I knew only through … Continue reading
A Cautionary Tale for the Tandy CoCo Community [UPDATED]
[Note updates to the situation at the bottom of this post.] Back in late February I purchased a Tandy Color Computer (CoCo) 3. I’ve long felt it to be a rather interesting machine and I’d never owned a CoCo before. … Continue reading