Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Old OS-9 Software and a couple of funnies



Quick Price Guide note: I've pretty much given up on trying to do rarity.  Maintaining it is just taking too much time away from other projects that are more productive and satisfying.  But not all is lost! :)  I'm slowly working on getting the price guide over to an online format that can be edited by multiple contributors.  Still may be awhile away, since the whole thing has to be converted by hand, but it should be worth it when it's done. 



In the short term, I've got a plan to get more folks involved in maintaining the Price Guide and will hopefully have some news and something set up to handle that shortly.



eBay: Tandy 64K TRS-80 Color Computer 2 in Box with Manuals (item 110138229537 end time Jun-19-07 19:15:00 PDT)



This very nice 26-3127B, complete, went for $22.60 with moderate bidding. This is my favorite CoCo 2, mainly because it's the only one I've confirmed can do true lowercase without a hardware mod. Although I should note that it's been documented before that any Korean built "B" model of the CoCo 2 can do this. The real test is to pop it open and see which VDU is in there. The original CoCo, and the U.S. built CoCo 2s, have a 6847. The Korean "B" models have a 6847T1 chip. The exception, of course, is this CoCo, the 3127B, which was U.S. built.  If you don't want to open up your shiny mint CoCo2, just hook it up and press the zero key. If there's a slash through the zero, it's a 6847T1 model. If so, you can poke the VDU to get true lower case instead of reverse video.  Anyhow, this went a bit lower than previously recorded, so the Price Guide has been nudged down a bit.



eBay: Radio Shack Color Computer OS-9 Profile software (item 320129396988 end time Jun-26-07 20:08:21 PDT)



Nice, unopened copy of Profile for OS-9 (Level 1).  Only one copy recorded previously, also in Fine condition. Worth a look.



eBay: Interlude Adult Computer Game TRS-80 Model I or III (item 180131740024 end time Jun-25-07 08:43:32 PDT)



This is for the Model I/III but it made me laugh so hard I snorted. Remember the old Frank Hogg ads on the back of Hot CoCo with the woman in lingerie? Fun stuff. Fun stuff.



eBay: 6 Vintage Cartridges for TI TRS-80 Color Computer -Rare (item 200120215324 end time Jun-22-07 09:55:12 PDT)



Apparently TI and Tandy joined forces at one point to make ... er... I dunno.  Brian should get a kick out of this one.  (These are NOT for the CoCo, just in case someone didn't get the funny part.)



Angel's Luck,

Capt.





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