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Talk:List of Tags
CoCo 2-only items
At List_of_Tags#Platform_Tags, the bullet point ●"CoCo 2 - items that ONLY work on CoCo 2" has the question "(are there any???)"
The answer is apparently yes, at least in terms of CoCo 1 vs. CoCo 2: the original, vertical, white floppy disk drive.
When the CoCo 2 was first introduced in 1984, Tandy also released a new floppy drive that seems only to have worked with the CoCo 2 and not the CoCo 1. This was the Color Computer 2 Disk #0 Kit, Cat. No. 26-3029, as shown in RSC-10 p.50, which specifically says: "Use with our new Color Computer 2". The catalog still offered the 26-3022, of which it says: "For original Color Computer." Was this merely an aesthetic issue - a gray exterior vs. the new white exterior? I doubt it, since during the gray-to-white transition Radio Shack sometimes kept the same catalog number for the older gray and newer white products (like the CCR-81), and the CoCo 1 in RSC-10 had a white case. The same distinction between CoCo 1 and CoCo 2 drives was made in RSC-11 p. 54, but the CoCo 1 drive was dropped in 1985's RSC-12. Maybe the CoCo 2 drive worked with the CoCo 3 when that came out, meaning there should also be a CoCo 2/3 platform tag?
Either way, by the time the CoCo 3 came out in 1986 (in the RSC-17 for 1987), Radio Shack had already stopped offering either of those floppy drives in favor of the horizontally-oriented and Tandy-branded "Color Thinline Disk Drive" which stated it was for "any Color Computer with Extended BASIC" which can only mean this drive, unlike perhaps the 26-3029, was hardware compatible with the CoCo 1 as long as that CoCo 1 had Extended BASIC.