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From: bill@trotter.usma.edu (Bill Gunshannon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m6809
Subject: Re: Future of Coco
Message-ID: <1079@trotter.usma.edu>
Date: Mon, 30-Nov-87 09:20:44 EST
Article-I.D.: trotter.1079
Posted: Mon Nov 30 09:20:44 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 4-Dec-87 04:35:09 EST
References: <821@cblpf.ATT.COM> <1299@puff.wisc.edu>
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Organization: US Military Academy, West Point, NY
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Keywords: Coco OS9
Summary: dream on

In article <1299@puff.wisc.edu>, kottke@puff.wisc.edu (Rich Kottke) writes:
> 
> 5) For the COCO-5, how about a 68020 coprocessor with  10 meg of zero wait
>    state RAM?
>    ( dream dream dream ...)
> 

Before you get your hopes up just look at TANDY today.

They have had a 68000 box for a couple of years now.  Never had OS9/68K
and my understanding is although there was development done on things 
like 68020 processor boards for it, the final decision is to go with the
PC clone market and so you will not see the Model 16/Model 6000 after this
year.  

This has unfortunately put some of us in rather a bind as we now have these
machines and soon will have no way to get them fixed when they break.  
Anybody out there got a Model 16 to sell for parts, real cheap. :-(

My guess is that the COCO will go the same way.  It may get an extra year
but eventually it will also die of not being PC compatable.  

Almost makes you want to cry.....

bill gunshannon


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