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Color Mouse

2025-09-07T20:32:13Z

Carney:

Catalog Number 26-3025. Plugged in to either joystick port. One button. Debuted August 1983 for $49.95 in the "1984" [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1984_radioshack_catalog.html?fb3d-page=178 main catalog p. 178] and [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=48 RSC-10 p. 48]. [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/m-sale_1987_07.html?fb3d-page=7 Went on sale for $29.95 in the 1987 sales flyer].

=Reviews=

{| class="wikitable sortable"
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! Review !! Author !! Magazine !! Y !! M !! P
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/color-computer-magazine-1984-06/page/n127/mode/2up ''REVIEW$''] || L.R. Jansen || ''[[The Color Computer Magazine]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|84 || style="text-align:center;"|06 || style="text-align:right;"|130
|-
|}

Joysticks

2025-09-07T20:12:34Z

Carney: added direct link to website for OGHugo joystick

{{NavHardware}}

CoCo users used two main joystick types: CoCo-native joysticks and (via adapters) joysticks intended for Atari and other machines that used Atari-compatible joystick ports. The market for Atari-compatible joysticks (and the adapters to use them) was significant among CoCo owners because of the perceived shortcomings of the original standard CoCo joystick - the "Black Beauty".

CoCo-native joysticks came in two generations: those that had 5-pin DIN connectors (and thus could support only one fire button), and those that had six-pin DIN connectors (and could support two fire buttons). As a way to ease the transition it wanted CoCo owners to make to its line of "IBM-Compatible" MS-DOS computers, and as a way to create an exclusive accessory market for itself, Tandy made its 1000-series PCs have CoCo-style joystick ports and able to use CoCo joysticks. But because those joysticks were not specifically labeled as such, many Tandy 1000 owners who picked up a joystick for their PC at their local Radio Shack were no doubt oblivious to the fact that they had just bought CoCo joysticks!

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ List of Joysticks
|-
! Name !! Cat. No.* !! Brand !! Buttons !! Stick Type !! First Ad !! Year !! Price !! Notes
|-
| [[Joystick]] || 26-3008 || Radio Shack || style="text-align:center;"|1 || Loose. Metal, then plastic || || || || "Black Beauty", sold in pairs
|-
| Joystick || 26-3008 || Tandy || style="text-align:center;"|1 || Loose. Plastic || || || || "Black Beauty", sold in pairs
|-
| Joystick || 10-1200 || TDP || style="text-align:center;"|1 || Loose. Plastic || || || || "Black Beauty", sold in pairs
|-
| [[Deluxe Joystick]] || 26-3012 || TRS-80 || style="text-align:center;"|1 || Springback/Switchable || || || ||
|-
| Deluxe Joystick || 26-3012 || Tandy || style="text-align:center;"|2 || Springback/Switchable || || || ||
|-
| Pistol Grip Joystick || 26-3123 || Tandy || style="text-align:center;"|2* || Springback || || || || *2 on stick, 2 on base
|-
| CoCo-150 Flight Sim Yoke || || Alban Scientific || || || [https://archive.org/details/198504Rainbow/page/n191/mode/1up ''Rainbow'' Apr 85] || 1985 || 49.95 ||
|-
| [[ComMander Deluxe]] || || Comrex || style="text-align:center;"|2* || || || 1988 || 29.95 || *2 on right, 2 on left
|-
| Altai Joystick || DR-2B || Altai || || || || || ||
|-
| [[Mach II]] || || Hayes || || || || || ||
|-
| [[Spectrum Stick]] || || [[Spectrum Projects]] || || || [https://archive.org/details/198209Rainbow/page/n96/mode/1up ''Rainbow'' Sept 82] || 1982 || 39.95 ||
|-
https://archive.org/details/color-computer-magazine-1983-10/page/n119/mode/2up
| Saturn Joystick || || Saturn Electronics || || || [https://archive.org/details/color-computer-magazine-1983-10/page/n119/mode/2up ''TCCM'' Oct 83] || 1983 || 15 ||
|-
| MAXX Flight Control Yoke || 900-2176 || MAXX || style="text-align:center;"|2 || || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/cm1991_software_buyers_guide.html?fb3d-page=71%7C ''1991 Software Buyers Guide'' p. 71] || 1991 || 99.95 ||
|-
| [[Advanced Gravis Mark VI Competition Joystick|Mark VI Competition Joystick]] || 900-2380 || Advanced Gravis || || || [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1989-03/page/n15/mode/2up ''Rainbow'' March 89] || 1989 || 59.95 ||
|-
| [[Endicott Joystick]] || || Endicott || || || [https://archive.org/details/198210Rainbow/page/n21/mode/2up?q=endicott ''Rainbow'' Oct 82] || 1982 || 18.95 ||
|-
| [[JARB Dual Joystick Unit]] || || JARB || || || || || ||
|-
| [[PBH Joystick]] || || PBH || style="text-align:center;"|1 || || [https://archive.org/details/manualzilla-id-5648057/page/n113/mode/1up ''HOT CoCo'' Jun 84] || 1984 || 49.95 || "Only the fire button moves!"
|-
|PBH Cordless Joystick|| || PBH || || || [https://archive.org/details/manualzilla-id-5648057/page/n113/mode/1up ''HOT CoCo'' Jun 84] || 1984 || 99.95 || "Coming Soon!"
|-
| || 270-9207 || Archer || style="text-align:center;"|2 || Springback/Switchable || || || || Tandy/IBM ports, switch select
|-
| || || TechDungeon || style="text-align:center;"|2 || Ball on springback short stick || [https://www.etsy.com/listing/1688549403/tandy-color-computer-123-tandy-1000?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=tandy&ref=sr_gallery-1-1&frs=1&sts=1&search_preloaded_img=1&organic_search_click=1 TechDungeon Etsy store] [https://web.archive.org/web/20240320210419/https://www.etsy.com/listing/1688549403/tandy-color-computer-123-tandy-1000?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=tandy&ref=sr_gallery-1-1&frs=1&sts=1&search_preloaded_img=1&organic_search_click=1 Archive]|| 2024 || 49.50 || New/current, Sanwa-style, red or black
|-
| || || BT RetroMods || style="text-align:center;"|2 || Ball on springback short stick || [https://www.etsy.com/listing/1728017284/tandy-custom-arcade-style-controller Etsy store]|| 2024 || 79.95 || Many button/ball color options
|-
| || || OGHUGO || style="text-align:center;"|2 || Ball on springback short stick || [https://www.ebay.com/itm/176815004817 eBay store] [https://www.oghugo.com/product/trs80_joy Web store]|| 2025 || 54.95 || CoCo-style color scheme
|-
|}
=Feature Articles=

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Y=Year, M=Month, P=Page
|-
! Title !! Device / ''Program'' !! Author !! Magazine !! Y !! M !! P
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/manualzilla-id-5764309/page/26/mode/2up Build Your Own Joystick]'' || DIY || Lalo Martinez || ''[[HOT CoCo]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|85 || style="text-align:center;"|02 || style="text-align:right;"|26
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1985-08/page/n223/mode/2up The Joystick Fix-It]'' || [[Joystick|Radio Shack Joystick]], ''Stik Fix'' || John G. Williams || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|85 || style="text-align:center;"|08 || style="text-align:right;"|226
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1986-08/page/n109/mode/2up The Old Switcheroo]'' || DIY Joystick Switchbox || Mark Haverstock || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|86 || style="text-align:center;"|08 || style="text-align:right;"|108
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1986-08/page/n117/mode/2up The Quick Joystick Fix]'' || [[Deluxe Joystick]] || Bruce W. Goshorn || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|86 || style="text-align:center;"|08 || style="text-align:right;"|116
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1987-08/page/n91/mode/2up Joy for Joysticks]'' || ''Joystick Check-Out'' || Richard S. Ellis || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|87 || style="text-align:center;"|08 || style="text-align:right;"|91
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1988-08/page/n121/mode/2up The Old Switcheroo II]'' || [[High-Res Joystick Interface]], DIY Joystick Switchbox || Mark Haverstock || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|88 || style="text-align:center;"|08 || style="text-align:right;"|120
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1993-03 Are Your Joysticks Dead or Alive?]'' || ''Joystick Checker'' || Trevor Boehm || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|93 || style="text-align:center;"|03 || style="text-align:right;"|01
|-
|}

=Reviews=

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Y=Year, M=Month, P=Page

|-
! Title !! Joystick(s) !! Author !! Magazine !! Y !! M !! P
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1982-08/page/n24/mode/1up This Joystick Package is First Rate]'' || [[JARB Dual Joystick Unit]] || || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|82 || style="text-align:center;"|08 || style="text-align:right;"|25
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/198210Rainbow/page/n111/mode/2up Two New Joysticks Are Big Improvement]'' || [[Spectrum Stick]], [[Endicott Joystick]] || Jim Reed || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|82 || style="text-align:center;"|10 || style="text-align:right;"|112
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/CreativeComputingbetterScan198302/page/n124/mode/1up Spectrum Stick: Color Computer Joystick]'' || [[Spectrum Stick]] || David H. Ahl || ''Creative Computing'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|02 || style="text-align:right;"|127
|-
| ''[https://colorcomputerarchive.com/repo/Documents/Magazines/80%20Micro/1983/80%20Micro%20-%208303%20-%20March%201983.pdf Review]'' || [[Kraft Joystick|Kraft]], [[Joystick|Radio Shack]], [[Wico CoCo Joystick|Wico]], [[Spectrum Stick|Spectrum]], [[Endicott Joystick|Endicott]], [[JARB Dual Joystick Unit|JARB]] || Carlos Calle || ''[[80 Micro]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|03 || style="text-align:right;"|53
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/Dragon_User_1983-06_Sunshine_Books_GB/page/n15/mode/2up Jockeying to be the First in the Joystick Race]'' || Dragon Data, [[Joystick|Radio Shack]], Microdeal/Midwich/Clare, Talon, Dragon Dungeon, Cascom || Clive Gifford || ''[[Dragon User]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|06 || style="text-align:right;"|17
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1984-11/page/n245/mode/1up Hayes Mach II Joystick Is A First-Class Performer]'' || [[Mach II]] || Ed Ellers || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|11 || style="text-align:right;"|244
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1986-08/page/n151/mode/2up A2D Deluxe Joystick: What More Could You Ask?]'' || Cinsoft [[A2D Deluxe Joystick]] || Stanley Townsend || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|86 || style="text-align:center;"|08 || style="text-align:right;"|150
|-
|}

Hardware

2025-09-07T20:08:46Z

Carney: /* Third party */

{{NavHardware}}
==Hardware design and integrated circuits==
Internally the CoCo 1 and CoCo 2 models are functionally identical. The core of the system is virtually identical to the reference design included in the Motorola MC6883 data sheet and consists of five LSI chips:

*MC6809E [[Microprocessor Unit]] (MPU)
*MC6883/SN74LS783/SN74LS785 [[Synchronous Address Multiplexer]] (SAM)
*MC6847 [[Video Display Generator]] (VDG)
*Two [[Peripheral Interface Adapters]] (PIA), either MC6821 or MC6822 chips

==Audio Digitizers==
*[[Delta Pro]]
*[[Max Sound]] - GimeSoft's audio recorder that used the joystick port.

==Audio Output Devices==
*[[Orchestra-90 CC (26-3143)]] - Software Affair Stereo Music Synthesizer DAC recreated by Zippster as the [[CoCoDAC-16]]
*[[Speech/Sound Cartridge (26-3144A)]] - General Instruments Music and Speech Synthesizer AY3-8913 Programmable Sound Generator (PSG) and an SPO256-AL2 Narrator Speech Processor
*[[Symphony-12]] - Speech Systems' 4 x AY-3-8912 PSG for 12 channel sound, recreated as the [[Philharmonic-12]]
*[[Game Master Cart]] - RetroTinker's Flash ROM and SN76489AN Digital Complex Sound Generator (DCSG)
*[[CoCo PSG]] - Zippster's YM-2149 Software-controlled Sound Generator (SSG)
*[[MEGA mini MPI]] - Zippster's YM-262F OPL3 FM Synthesizer
*[[The Voice]] - Speech Systems' Speech Synthesizer with the Votrax SC-01
*[[Super Voice]] - Speech Systems' Speech Synthesizer device that could sing with a Votrax SC-02 / SSI 263A
*[[Real Talker]] - Colorware Voice Synthesizer with the Votrax SC-01

==Bus Expander==
*[[Multi-Pak|Tandy Multipak (26-3024)]]
*[[Multi-Pak|Tandy Multipak (26-3124)]]
*[[Colorburst|Colorburst By Maxsys]]
*[[Howard Medical Slotpak]]
*[[Orion Technologies XPort]]
*[[CoNect Xpander]]
*[[CoNect Y Box]]
*[[Y-Cable]]
*[[Solderless Proto Board]]
*Basic Technology
**BT-1000 [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1983-02/page/n27/mode/2up Feb 1982 ''Rainbow'' ad] [https://archive.org/details/80-U.S._Volume_VI_Number_05_1983-05_80-Northwest_Publishing_US/page/n105/mode/1up?view=theater Brief info in May 1983 ''80-U.S.'']
**BT-2000
**BT Companion [https://archive.org/details/color-computer-magazine-1984-01/page/n29/mode/2up?view=theater Jan 84 ''TCCM'' ad ]
*CMJ-IF. All-in-one expansion cartridge adding parallel ports, serial, comms, speech, and an expansion extender. [https://archive.org/details/the-rainbow-magazine-1984/The%20Rainbow%20Vol.%2003%20No.%2006%20-%20January%201984/page/n221/mode/2up Jan '84 ''Rainbow'' ad], [https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Poptronics/80s/1983/CE-1983-12r.pdf Review in Dec '83 ''Computers & Electronics'' p. 20], [http://www.blish.org/gens/1402B.html apparently designed by Charles Benjamin Blish]

==Computers & Clones==
*[[TRS-80 Color Computers]] (A list of all available models)
*[[Dragon]]
*[[MC-10_Micro_Color_Computer|MC-10 Micro Color Computer]]
*[[CP400]]
*[[TDP-100]]
*[[LZ Color64]] Brazilian clone
*[[Dynacom MX-1600]] Brazilian clone

==Tandy/Radio Shack Tape Drive Systems==
*[[CTR-80A]]
*[[CCR-81 (26-1208)]]
*[[CCR-82]]
*[[CCR-83]]

=== Other Tape Drive Systems ===
*[[Exatron Stringy Floppy]]

== Floppy Disk Controllers ==

* [[Other Floppy Disk]] - notes and information about the CoCo FD controllers

=== Tandy/Radio Shack floppy disk controllers ===
* [[26-3022]]
* [[26-3029]]
* [[FD-500 (26-3129)]]
* [[FD-501 (26-3131)]]
* [[FD-502 (26-3133)]]

=== Third party floppy disk controllers ===
* [[SDC Floppy Emulator]]
* [[Disto Super Disk Controller]]
* [[Disto Super Disk Controller II]]
* [[Disto Mini Controller]]
* [[J&M/Owl-Ware]]
* [[Hard Drive Specialists]]
* [[Sardis Technologies 'no-halt' Controller]]

=== Hacking floppy disk ===
*[[Hacking Disk]] 40, 80 Track, 2 Sides
*[[26-3029 CoCo Disk Controller High Density Modifications]] - ([http://users.digitalindigo.net/~techno/coco_floppy.html source])

=== Alternate floppy disk controller ROMs ===
*[[ADOS/ADOS-3]]
*[[RGBDOS]]
*[[JDOS]]
*[[MYDOS]]
*[[CDOS]]
*[[OWLDOS]]
*[[HDB-DOS]]

==Hard Drive Controllers==
* [[Disto Hard Disk II Adapter]]
*[[Tandy Hard Drive Controller]]
* [[CoCo XT]] / CoCo XT-RTC by [[Burke & Burke]]
*[[KenTon]] - SCSI
*[[Gleside IDE Interface]]
*[[Cloud-9 SuperIDE Interface]]
*[[Cloud-9 TC^3 SCSI Interface]]
*[[Owl-Ware]]

==Input Devices==

[[Joysticks]]
[[Paddles]]

=== Tandy / Radio Shack ===
*[[Joystick]]
*[[Deluxe Joystick]]
*[[Color Mouse]] (1 Button)
*[[Deluxe Color Mouse]] (2 button)
*[[Tandy Hi-Res Joystick Adapter]]
*[[Pistol Grip Joystick]]
*[[X-Pad]]
*Archer Cat. No. 270-9207. With both a Tandy 6-pin DIN and an IBM PC 15-pin connector, plus a "Tandy/IBM" switch on underside.

=== Third party ===
*[[CoCo-150]] - Flight Sim Yoke, Alban Scientific, [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1985-02/page/n273/mode/2up ''The Rainbow'' Feb 1985]
*[[The Glove]]
*[[Le Stick]]
*[[Wico Deluxe Joystick]]
*[[WICO Computer Command Trackball]]
*[[WICO Computer Command Analog Joystick]]
*[[HJL-57 upgrade Keyboard]]
*[[HJL NumberJack]] numeric keypad
*[[Koala Pad]]
*[[Diecom Light Phaser Interface]]
*[[Comrex ComMander Deluxe]]
*[[Altai DR-2B]]
*[[Spectrum Mach II Joystick]]
*[[Spectrum Paddle]]
*[[Spectrum Stick]]
*[[MAXX Flight Control Yoke]] - [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/cm1991_software_buyers_guide.html?fb3d-page=71| 1991 Software Buyers Guide p. 71] listed it as CoCo compatible. Cat. No. 900-2176
*[[Advanced Gravis Mark VI Competition Joystick]] - [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1991_rsc-22.html?fb3d-page=38| RSC-22 p.38] listed Tandy-specific version Cat. No. 900-2380, also advertised in ''The Rainbow'' starting around Feb 1989.
*[[Endicott Joystick]]
*[[JARB Dual Joystick Unit]]. "Single unit assembly enhances playability of multi-joystick/player games; convenient press-to-fire buttons." [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1982-11/page/n69/mode/2up Ad in November 1982 ''Rainbow'' p. 71]
*[https://www.oghugo.com/product/coco_gp OG Hugo CoCo GamePad] - Modern 3D-printed two-button NES-style gamepad. [https://www.ebay.com/itm/127275410887 Also eBay store]

=== Accessories ===
*[[Atari to CoCo Joystick Adapter]]
*[[Colorware Super Hi-Res Interface]]
*[[Hawksoft Dual Hi-Res Joystick Adapter]]
*[[Puppo Keyboard Adapter]]
*[[OWL Keyboard Adapter]]
*[[Cloud-9 AT Keyboard Adapter]]
*[[Joy-Mouse Interface]] - Adapter from Micro-Labs allowing a [[Joysticks|CoCo-standard joystick]] to connect to a TRS-80 Model III or 4.

==Memory Upgrades==
*[[Tandy 512K Upgrade]]
*[[Performance Peripherals 512K Upgrade]]
*[[Cloud-9 Triad 512K SRAM Upgrade]]
*[[Boyson Tech Boomerang 512K Upgrade]]
*[[Disto 512K Upgrade]]
*[[Disto 1MB Upgrade]]
*[[Disto 2MB Upgrade]]

==MIDI Interfaces==
*[[CoCo MIDI]]
*[[MIDI Maestro]] and [[MIDI Maestro+]]

== Monitors and displays ==

* Radio Shack
** 26-3010 - [[TRS-80 Color Video Receiver]] introduced in the [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1981_rsc-04.html?fb3d-page=30 1981 Radio Shack Computer Catalog RSC-4] and the [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1981_radioshack_catalog.html?fb3d-page=174 1981 Radio Shack main catalog].
** 16-230 - 13" color TV, model number TC-130. Introduced in [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1983_radioshack_catalog.html?fb3d-page=154| the 1983 general Radio Shack catalog], and shown as the CoCo's display in [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1983_radioshack_catalog.html?fb3d-page=184 that same catalog's back cover]. Also shown on [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1983_rsc-08.html?fb3d-page=01| the cover of 1983's Radio Shack Computer Catalog RSC-8] and [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1983_rsc-08.html?fb3d-page=31 once in the CoCo section] where the Color Video Receiver was still more prominent. Not fully shown in the interior of an RSC [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1983_rsc-09.html?fb3d-page=46| until RSC-9 later in 1983].
** 16-231 - a 13" TV. Introduced in the [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1985_radioshack_catalog.html?fb3d-page=104 1985 Radio Shack main catalog]. Shown as the display [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1985_radioshack_catalog.html?fb3d-page=164| in the CoCo's listing in that same catalog] as well as (in 1985's RSC-12 Computer Catalog) on both [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1985_rsc-12.html?fb3d-page=01 the cover] and [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1985_rsc-12.html??fb3d-page=50 the CoCo's own listings].
** 16-232 - a 13" TV/Video Monitor. Introduced in the [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1986_radioshack_catalog.html?fb3d-page=89 1986 Radio Shack main catalog]. Shown as the display in [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1986_radioshack_catalog.html?fb3d-page=166 the CoCo's listing in that same catalog] as well as in [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1986_rsc-15.html?fb3d-page=42 1986's Radio Shack Computer Catalog RSC-15].
** 16-233 - a 13" TV, model number TC-171. Introduced in the [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1988_radioshack_catalog.html?fb3d-page=99 1988 Radio Shack main catalog]. Also shown as the display [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1988_radioshack_catalog.html?fb3d-page=162| in the CoCo 2's listing in that same catalog] and in [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1988_rsc-19.html?fb3d-page=26 1988's Radio Shack Computer Catalog RSC-19].
** 16-288 - a 13" TV/monitor, model number TC-194. Postdates the CoCo [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1996_radioshack_catalog.html?fb3d-page=100 (1996 main catalog)] but a Radio Shack branded tabletop CRT.
** 16-246 - a 9" TV/monitor. Postdates the CoCo [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1996_radioshack_catalog.html?fb3d-page=100 (1996 main catalog)] but a Radio Shack branded tabletop CRT. Also suitable for the [[MC-10]]?
** 16-289 - a 13" TV/monitor, model number TC-195. Postdates the CoCo [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1997_radioshack_catalog.html?fb3d-page=124 (1997 main catalog)] but a Radio Shack branded tabletop CRT.
* Tandy
** 26-3512 [[CM-8]] Specifically made for the CoCo 3. Affordable but no composite input, thus many CoCo 1/2 programs would show in black-and-white.
** 25-8056 [[RGB-11]] [https://colorcomputerarchive.com/repo/Documents/Manuals/Hardware/RGB-11%20Color%20Monitor.pdf Listed in the Color Computer Archive]. Perhaps only for composite input use rather than RGB.
** 26-3211 [[VM-2]] Monochrome (green-screen) composite. Had "Tandy TRS-80" branding; part of the brief attempt to hold on to "TRS-80" while still moving to "Tandy" instead of "Radio Shack". Introduced in [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1985_rsc-14.html?fb3d-page=4 RSC-14 in 1985]; intended for the Tandy 1000 and the Model 100's Disk/Video Interface rather than the CoCo, but when the CoCo 3 complete with composite port came along two years later, it could be an inexpensive option for those intending their CoCos for productivity, telecom, text adventures, and monochrome graphical games like [[Dungeons of Daggorath|Daggorath]] and [[Project Nebula|Nebula]], and wanted the higher resolution than a TV could provide.
** 25-1020 [[VM-4]] Successor of the VM-2. Introduced in [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1987_rsc-17.html?fb3d-page=10 RSC-17]. Mentioned by [[Marty Goodman]] as being [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1987-08/page/n71/mode/2up "perfectly compatible" with the CoCo 3] - but, again, being monochrome, was not ideal for most games or graphics. Perhaps any monochrome composite monitor would work.

* Magnavox
**[[8CM505]]
**[[8CM643]]
**[[8CM515]] - Analog RGB and composite color. The August [[Rainbow_Magazine_1987|1987]] ''[[Rainbow]]'' ran a [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1987-08/page/n141/mode/2up favorable review by Ed Ellers (p.140-141)] and a [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1987-08/page/n71/mode/2up recommendation from Marty Goodman (pp. 70,73,75)]. [[Cloud-9]] [http://www.frontiernet.net/~mmarlette/Cloud-9/Hardware/Video%20Cables.html still offers a CoCo 3 adapter cable].
**[[1CM135]] - Replaced the 8CM515, adding stereo sound input, Commodore-style S-Video with chorma-luma input, and CGA RGB. [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1991-03/page/n13/mode/2up?q=8cm515 Recommended by Marty Goodman in the March 1991 ''Rainbow''.]
* Sony
**[[KV-1311CR]]. Howard Medical Computers and [[Spectrum Projects]] sold CoCo 3 cables for the analog RGB connection.
**[[KX-1211HG]]

* Teknika
**MJ305 [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1987-01/page/n92/mode/1up]

*[[15KHz SVGA Monitors]]

==Arithmetic Processor Units==
*[https://github.com/barberd/coco9511pak CoCo AM9511 Pak]

==Multi Devices==
These are items that serve more than one purpose, such as Cloud-9's SuperBoard.
*[[SuperBoard]]
*[[FHL Eliminator]]
*[[Disto MEB]]

==Printers==
*[[CoCo Printers]]

==RS232 Devices==
*[[Deluxe RS232 Pak]]
*[[Direct Connect Modem Pak]]
*[[Orion Technologies RS232 Pak]]
*[[Disto RS232 Pak]]
*[[PBJ Dual Serial Port Pak]]
*[[Kenton Dual Serial Port Pak]]
*[[Quad Serial Port Pak]] - Who made this?
*[[CoCoPro! RS232 Pak]]
*[[CoNect Dual RS232 Pak]]
*[[CoNect RS232 Pak]]
*[[CoNect 16550 Pak]] - what is the official name?
*[[Metric Model 101p Serial to Parallel Converter]]
*[[Dayton Industries Blue Streak Ultima Serial to Parallel Converter]]
*[https://github.com/barberd/cocousbserial CoCo USB Serial Pak]

==Video Digitizers==
*[[Rascan]]
*[[DS-69 Digisector]]

== Video Out==
=== Historical Solutions ===
*[[PBJ Wordpak/Wordpak II]]
*[[Lucas Industries 2000 AutoDim]]
*[[RGB to VGA Converter]]
*[[CoCo 3 RGB to CGA/EGA Adapter]]

=== Build it yourself ===
*[[CoCo 1 Monochrome Video]]
*[[CoCo 1 composite video]]
*[https://imgur.com/a/XYjvAl8 Coco 1 S-Video Circuit, Simplified] (requires disabling RF) Convert to Composite by adding a 470pf capacitor between the yellow and blue lines and replace the S-Video connector with an RCA connector with center connector on the yellow side of the new capacitor.
*[https://imgur.com/a/Pu7vdHB CoCo 1 and 2 S-Video and Composite Out Circuit]
*[https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1iawKo8rM3PNL5g4nWRu-KFlnn0n_WJ4P CoCo 2 S-Video and Composite Out Circuit]
*[https://imgur.com/TIrk3AE CoCo 1 or 2 YPbPr/YUV Component Out Circuit]
*[https://hackaday.io/project/7366-coco-3-rgb-to-scart-to-hdmi-cable CoCo 3 RGB -> SCART] Use with a SCART to HDMI adapter.

=== Current Solutions to Purchase ===
*[[Video without RF Box]] Use existing RF out on your CoCo 1, 2, or 3 into your TV tuner.
*[https://github.com/hoglet67/RGBtoHDMI RGBtoHDMI] Requires Pi Zero, RGBtoHDMI hat board, and Analog board. Mostly used with CoCo 1s and 2s, but can also be used for PAL CoCo3s to simulate NTSC artifact colors.

==== CoCo 1 or 2 Only ====
Note that these CoCo 1 and 2 solutions require installation.
*[http://cocovga.com/ CoCoVGA for CoCo 1, 2, MC-10, Dragon] A FPGA-based solution that outputs VGA.
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gc_3TPBjFf4 CocoDV for Coco 1 or 2] An FPGA-based solution that plugs into the MC6847 Video Display Generator IC socket on the board and provides HDMI video. Also adds extra functionality like sprites and fonts. Order via email from AC-8 Bit Zone.
*[https://thezippsterzone.com/video-adapters/ Composite Video Out boards for CoCo 2] These are usually marked sold out; email the Zippster and let him know you want one; he'll make up a batch and let you know when they're available.

==== CoCo 3 Only ====
*[https://thezippsterzone.com/2019/03/27/gime-x/ GIME-X for CoCo 3] Replace your GIME chip with this FPGA-based solution that adds VGA output. Also has even more video modes and allows overclocking the CoCo.
*[https://thezippsterzone.com/video-adapters/ RGB2NTSC] CoCo3 to (a better) Composite and S-Video
*[https://cocoman.onlineweb.shop/details/p7004829_20319861.aspx Switch-a-roo CoCo3 to SCART cable] Use with a SCART to HDMI adapter.

== Light Controller ==
*[[X10 Lighting Control]]
*[[Remote Command Controller 26-1182]]

== Mods & Hacking ==
*[[CoCo Turbo Light]]
*[[DCModem to RS232 Pak]]
*[[Disk Drive power LED]]
*[[CoCo repack in PC]]
*[[Speech & Sound Pack Modification for High Speed]]
*[[CoCoEPROMpak]] Schematic board
*[[Fahrfall]] New Game Cartridge and pak
*[https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2247877/ Nowhereman999's Color Computer 3D printable Raspberry Pi case]

[[Category:Hardware]]

CCR-81 (26-1208)

2025-08-23T02:27:52Z

Carney: /* Portable */

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[[File:Radio Shack TRS-80 Cassette Recorder CCR-81 (26-1208).jpg|thumb|Radio Shack TRS-80 Cassette Recorder CCR-81 (26-1208)]]
The '''TRS-80 CCR-81''' was a cassette player and recorder from Radio Shack. The "CCR" in the name stood for Computer Cassette Recorder. While a fully functioning audiocassette player and recorder, the CCR-81 was also a computer data input/output device.

==Design==

===Color Scheme and Branding===
The first CCR-81 had the silver or "battleship gray" color scheme, matching the color of that era's cassette-capable TRS-80 computers, including not only the CoCo 1 but also the Model I and III. Later CCR-81s had a white case to match the shift to a white theme across the TRS-80 lineup, including the 64K CoCo 1, the CoCo 2, the Model 4, and the Model 100. Still later, the CCR-81 was given Tandy branding, dropping "Radio Shack TRS-80" from the label, to match the shift to Tandy branding by the CoCo 2, Model 4D, and the Model 200 and 102 laptops.

===Features===
====Desktop====
Like many tape recorders of the day, the CCR-81 was a full-sized desktop model, with a large speaker, intended to permit multiple users around a table, such as participants in a business meeting, to hear the sound. It came bundled with not only the cable needed to connect it to a cassette-capable TRS-80 computer, but also with the AC adapter needed to plug it into a wall power outlet.

====Portable====
As was also typical of the era's cassette recorders, the CCR-81 was additionally capable of portable use, having an internal bay for four "C"-sized batteries and a slide-out handle enabling it to be carried more easily. When Radio Shack introduced the Model 100 laptop, it intended owners to use the already-existing CCR-81 with it, showing the 100 and the CCR-81 together in advertisements and even releasing a briefcase specifically designed to have room for both the Model 100 and the CCR-81.
However, the CCR-81's size, and especially its weight when loaded with four size C batteries, likely caused complaints by Model 100 owners, because Tandy soon introduced the much smaller [[CCR-82]], which used much lighter AA batteries and, while having an AC adapter port, did not come bundled with an AC cable. However, the CCR-81 outlived the CCR-82, continuing in production after the CCR-82 was discontinued. Non-laptop users likely preferred the 81's bigger, easier-to-use buttons, and the 82 has acquired a reputation as less reliable, frequently needing a belt drive change.

==The Role of Tape Drive in the CoCo Market==

At first, Radio Shack preferred to release CoCo software in its proprietary [[Program Pak]] cartridge-based system, using the tape format only rarely by comparison, and even then often merely to enable cartridge programs to load and save data. But third-party developers embraced tape as a standard software format from the start, only rarely using cartridges and usually only as hardware expansions or controllers for disk drives.

Later, Radio Shack released CoCo programs on tape more often, especially educational titles [[20,000 Leagues Under the Sea]], and ports of TRS-80 text adventures that were only on tape ([[Pyramid]], [[Bedlam]], etc.) In fact, sometimes TRS-80 games that were available on both tape and disk (such as the authorized ports of the games [[Zaxxon]] and [[Pooyan]]) were only given tape versions when ported to the CoCo.

With the introduction of disk drives, Radio Shack would release more sophisticated versions of standard Radio Shack software titles such as [[SCRIPSIT]], [[Spectaculator]], or [[Color LOGO]] ''only'' on disk, bypassing tape altogether.

Usually, for ''programs'' released on both tape and disk, the price was the same whether on tape or disk, or at most only a little higher for the disk version, but the cost of the ''drive hardware'' was much higher for a disk drive. In the European market which had less discretionary income per capita, CoCo users stuck overwhelmingly with tape drive, while use of the disk drive was much more prevalent in the US. This situation also occured on competing platforms such as the Atari 8-bit line and the Commodore 64.

==External Links==
*From the [[Color Computer Archive]]: [https://colorcomputerarchive.com/repo/Documents/Manuals/Hardware/CCR-81%20Manual%20(Tandy).pdf User Manual]
*From the [[Color Computer Archive]]: [https://colorcomputerarchive.com/repo/Documents/Manuals/Hardware/CCR-81%20Service%20Manual%20(Tandy).pdf Service Manual]

Hardware

2025-08-23T02:26:31Z

Carney: /* Bus Expander */ another BT-1000 link

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==Hardware design and integrated circuits==
Internally the CoCo 1 and CoCo 2 models are functionally identical. The core of the system is virtually identical to the reference design included in the Motorola MC6883 data sheet and consists of five LSI chips:

*MC6809E [[Microprocessor Unit]] (MPU)
*MC6883/SN74LS783/SN74LS785 [[Synchronous Address Multiplexer]] (SAM)
*MC6847 [[Video Display Generator]] (VDG)
*Two [[Peripheral Interface Adapters]] (PIA), either MC6821 or MC6822 chips

==Audio Digitizers==
*[[Delta Pro]]
*[[Max Sound]] - GimeSoft's audio recorder that used the joystick port.

==Audio Output Devices==
*[[Orchestra-90 CC (26-3143)]] - Software Affair Stereo Music Synthesizer DAC recreated by Zippster as the [[CoCoDAC-16]]
*[[Speech/Sound Cartridge (26-3144A)]] - General Instruments Music and Speech Synthesizer AY3-8913 Programmable Sound Generator (PSG) and an SPO256-AL2 Narrator Speech Processor
*[[Symphony-12]] - Speech Systems' 4 x AY-3-8912 PSG for 12 channel sound, recreated as the [[Philharmonic-12]]
*[[Game Master Cart]] - RetroTinker's Flash ROM and SN76489AN Digital Complex Sound Generator (DCSG)
*[[CoCo PSG]] - Zippster's YM-2149 Software-controlled Sound Generator (SSG)
*[[MEGA mini MPI]] - Zippster's YM-262F OPL3 FM Synthesizer
*[[The Voice]] - Speech Systems' Speech Synthesizer with the Votrax SC-01
*[[Super Voice]] - Speech Systems' Speech Synthesizer device that could sing with a Votrax SC-02 / SSI 263A
*[[Real Talker]] - Colorware Voice Synthesizer with the Votrax SC-01

==Bus Expander==
*[[Multi-Pak|Tandy Multipak (26-3024)]]
*[[Multi-Pak|Tandy Multipak (26-3124)]]
*[[Colorburst|Colorburst By Maxsys]]
*[[Howard Medical Slotpak]]
*[[Orion Technologies XPort]]
*[[CoNect Xpander]]
*[[CoNect Y Box]]
*[[Y-Cable]]
*[[Solderless Proto Board]]
*Basic Technology
**BT-1000 [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1983-02/page/n27/mode/2up Feb 1982 ''Rainbow'' ad] [https://archive.org/details/80-U.S._Volume_VI_Number_05_1983-05_80-Northwest_Publishing_US/page/n105/mode/1up?view=theater Brief info in May 1983 ''80-U.S.'']
**BT-2000
**BT Companion [https://archive.org/details/color-computer-magazine-1984-01/page/n29/mode/2up?view=theater Jan 84 ''TCCM'' ad ]
*CMJ-IF. All-in-one expansion cartridge adding parallel ports, serial, comms, speech, and an expansion extender. [https://archive.org/details/the-rainbow-magazine-1984/The%20Rainbow%20Vol.%2003%20No.%2006%20-%20January%201984/page/n221/mode/2up Jan '84 ''Rainbow'' ad], [https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Poptronics/80s/1983/CE-1983-12r.pdf Review in Dec '83 ''Computers & Electronics'' p. 20], [http://www.blish.org/gens/1402B.html apparently designed by Charles Benjamin Blish]

==Computers & Clones==
*[[TRS-80 Color Computers]] (A list of all available models)
*[[Dragon]]
*[[MC-10_Micro_Color_Computer|MC-10 Micro Color Computer]]
*[[CP400]]
*[[TDP-100]]
*[[LZ Color64]] Brazilian clone
*[[Dynacom MX-1600]] Brazilian clone

==Tandy/Radio Shack Tape Drive Systems==
*[[CTR-80A]]
*[[CCR-81 (26-1208)]]
*[[CCR-82]]
*[[CCR-83]]

=== Other Tape Drive Systems ===
*[[Exatron Stringy Floppy]]

== Floppy Disk Controllers ==

* [[Other Floppy Disk]] - notes and information about the CoCo FD controllers

=== Tandy/Radio Shack floppy disk controllers ===
* [[26-3022]]
* [[26-3029]]
* [[FD-500 (26-3129)]]
* [[FD-501 (26-3131)]]
* [[FD-502 (26-3133)]]

=== Third party floppy disk controllers ===
* [[SDC Floppy Emulator]]
* [[Disto Super Disk Controller]]
* [[Disto Super Disk Controller II]]
* [[Disto Mini Controller]]
* [[J&M/Owl-Ware]]
* [[Hard Drive Specialists]]
* [[Sardis Technologies 'no-halt' Controller]]

=== Hacking floppy disk ===
*[[Hacking Disk]] 40, 80 Track, 2 Sides
*[[26-3029 CoCo Disk Controller High Density Modifications]] - ([http://users.digitalindigo.net/~techno/coco_floppy.html source])

=== Alternate floppy disk controller ROMs ===
*[[ADOS/ADOS-3]]
*[[RGBDOS]]
*[[JDOS]]
*[[MYDOS]]
*[[CDOS]]
*[[OWLDOS]]
*[[HDB-DOS]]

==Hard Drive Controllers==
* [[Disto Hard Disk II Adapter]]
*[[Tandy Hard Drive Controller]]
* [[CoCo XT]] / CoCo XT-RTC by [[Burke & Burke]]
*[[KenTon]] - SCSI
*[[Gleside IDE Interface]]
*[[Cloud-9 SuperIDE Interface]]
*[[Cloud-9 TC^3 SCSI Interface]]
*[[Owl-Ware]]

==Input Devices==

[[Joysticks]]
[[Paddles]]

=== Tandy / Radio Shack ===
*[[Joystick]]
*[[Deluxe Joystick]]
*[[Color Mouse]] (1 Button)
*[[Deluxe Color Mouse]] (2 button)
*[[Tandy Hi-Res Joystick Adapter]]
*[[Pistol Grip Joystick]]
*[[X-Pad]]
*Archer Cat. No. 270-9207. With both a Tandy 6-pin DIN and an IBM PC 15-pin connector, plus a "Tandy/IBM" switch on underside.

=== Third party ===
*[[CoCo-150]] - Flight Sim Yoke, Alban Scientific, [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1985-02/page/n273/mode/2up ''The Rainbow'' Feb 1985]
*[[The Glove]]
*[[Le Stick]]
*[[Wico Deluxe Joystick]]
*[[WICO Computer Command Trackball]]
*[[WICO Computer Command Analog Joystick]]
*[[HJL-57 upgrade Keyboard]]
*[[HJL NumberJack]] numeric keypad
*[[Koala Pad]]
*[[Diecom Light Phaser Interface]]
*[[Comrex ComMander Deluxe]]
*[[Altai DR-2B]]
*[[Spectrum Mach II Joystick]]
*[[Spectrum Paddle]]
*[[Spectrum Stick]]
*[[MAXX Flight Control Yoke]] - [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/cm1991_software_buyers_guide.html?fb3d-page=71| 1991 Software Buyers Guide p. 71] listed it as CoCo compatible. Cat. No. 900-2176
*[[Advanced Gravis Mark VI Competition Joystick]] - [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1991_rsc-22.html?fb3d-page=38| RSC-22 p.38] listed Tandy-specific version Cat. No. 900-2380, also advertised in ''The Rainbow'' starting around Feb 1989.
*[[Endicott Joystick]]
*[[JARB Dual Joystick Unit]]. "Single unit assembly enhances playability of multi-joystick/player games; convenient press-to-fire buttons." [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1982-11/page/n69/mode/2up Ad in November 1982 ''Rainbow'' p. 71]

=== Accessories ===
*[[Atari to CoCo Joystick Adapter]]
*[[Colorware Super Hi-Res Interface]]
*[[Hawksoft Dual Hi-Res Joystick Adapter]]
*[[Puppo Keyboard Adapter]]
*[[OWL Keyboard Adapter]]
*[[Cloud-9 AT Keyboard Adapter]]
*[[Joy-Mouse Interface]] - Adapter from Micro-Labs allowing a [[Joysticks|CoCo-standard joystick]] to connect to a TRS-80 Model III or 4.

==Memory Upgrades==
*[[Tandy 512K Upgrade]]
*[[Performance Peripherals 512K Upgrade]]
*[[Cloud-9 Triad 512K SRAM Upgrade]]
*[[Boyson Tech Boomerang 512K Upgrade]]
*[[Disto 512K Upgrade]]
*[[Disto 1MB Upgrade]]
*[[Disto 2MB Upgrade]]

==MIDI Interfaces==
*[[CoCo MIDI]]
*[[MIDI Maestro]] and [[MIDI Maestro+]]

== Monitors and displays ==

* Radio Shack
** 26-3010 - [[TRS-80 Color Video Receiver]] introduced in the [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1981_rsc-04.html?fb3d-page=30 1981 Radio Shack Computer Catalog RSC-4] and the [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1981_radioshack_catalog.html?fb3d-page=174 1981 Radio Shack main catalog].
** 16-230 - 13" color TV, model number TC-130. Introduced in [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1983_radioshack_catalog.html?fb3d-page=154| the 1983 general Radio Shack catalog], and shown as the CoCo's display in [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1983_radioshack_catalog.html?fb3d-page=184 that same catalog's back cover]. Also shown on [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1983_rsc-08.html?fb3d-page=01| the cover of 1983's Radio Shack Computer Catalog RSC-8] and [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1983_rsc-08.html?fb3d-page=31 once in the CoCo section] where the Color Video Receiver was still more prominent. Not fully shown in the interior of an RSC [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1983_rsc-09.html?fb3d-page=46| until RSC-9 later in 1983].
** 16-231 - a 13" TV. Introduced in the [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1985_radioshack_catalog.html?fb3d-page=104 1985 Radio Shack main catalog]. Shown as the display [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1985_radioshack_catalog.html?fb3d-page=164| in the CoCo's listing in that same catalog] as well as (in 1985's RSC-12 Computer Catalog) on both [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1985_rsc-12.html?fb3d-page=01 the cover] and [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1985_rsc-12.html??fb3d-page=50 the CoCo's own listings].
** 16-232 - a 13" TV/Video Monitor. Introduced in the [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1986_radioshack_catalog.html?fb3d-page=89 1986 Radio Shack main catalog]. Shown as the display in [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1986_radioshack_catalog.html?fb3d-page=166 the CoCo's listing in that same catalog] as well as in [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1986_rsc-15.html?fb3d-page=42 1986's Radio Shack Computer Catalog RSC-15].
** 16-233 - a 13" TV, model number TC-171. Introduced in the [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1988_radioshack_catalog.html?fb3d-page=99 1988 Radio Shack main catalog]. Also shown as the display [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1988_radioshack_catalog.html?fb3d-page=162| in the CoCo 2's listing in that same catalog] and in [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1988_rsc-19.html?fb3d-page=26 1988's Radio Shack Computer Catalog RSC-19].
** 16-288 - a 13" TV/monitor, model number TC-194. Postdates the CoCo [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1996_radioshack_catalog.html?fb3d-page=100 (1996 main catalog)] but a Radio Shack branded tabletop CRT.
** 16-246 - a 9" TV/monitor. Postdates the CoCo [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1996_radioshack_catalog.html?fb3d-page=100 (1996 main catalog)] but a Radio Shack branded tabletop CRT. Also suitable for the [[MC-10]]?
** 16-289 - a 13" TV/monitor, model number TC-195. Postdates the CoCo [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1997_radioshack_catalog.html?fb3d-page=124 (1997 main catalog)] but a Radio Shack branded tabletop CRT.
* Tandy
** 26-3512 [[CM-8]] Specifically made for the CoCo 3. Affordable but no composite input, thus many CoCo 1/2 programs would show in black-and-white.
** 25-8056 [[RGB-11]] [https://colorcomputerarchive.com/repo/Documents/Manuals/Hardware/RGB-11%20Color%20Monitor.pdf Listed in the Color Computer Archive]. Perhaps only for composite input use rather than RGB.
** 26-3211 [[VM-2]] Monochrome (green-screen) composite. Had "Tandy TRS-80" branding; part of the brief attempt to hold on to "TRS-80" while still moving to "Tandy" instead of "Radio Shack". Introduced in [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1985_rsc-14.html?fb3d-page=4 RSC-14 in 1985]; intended for the Tandy 1000 and the Model 100's Disk/Video Interface rather than the CoCo, but when the CoCo 3 complete with composite port came along two years later, it could be an inexpensive option for those intending their CoCos for productivity, telecom, text adventures, and monochrome graphical games like [[Dungeons of Daggorath|Daggorath]] and [[Project Nebula|Nebula]], and wanted the higher resolution than a TV could provide.
** 25-1020 [[VM-4]] Successor of the VM-2. Introduced in [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1987_rsc-17.html?fb3d-page=10 RSC-17]. Mentioned by [[Marty Goodman]] as being [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1987-08/page/n71/mode/2up "perfectly compatible" with the CoCo 3] - but, again, being monochrome, was not ideal for most games or graphics. Perhaps any monochrome composite monitor would work.

* Magnavox
**[[8CM505]]
**[[8CM643]]
**[[8CM515]] - Analog RGB and composite color. The August [[Rainbow_Magazine_1987|1987]] ''[[Rainbow]]'' ran a [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1987-08/page/n141/mode/2up favorable review by Ed Ellers (p.140-141)] and a [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1987-08/page/n71/mode/2up recommendation from Marty Goodman (pp. 70,73,75)]. [[Cloud-9]] [http://www.frontiernet.net/~mmarlette/Cloud-9/Hardware/Video%20Cables.html still offers a CoCo 3 adapter cable].
**[[1CM135]] - Replaced the 8CM515, adding stereo sound input, Commodore-style S-Video with chorma-luma input, and CGA RGB. [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1991-03/page/n13/mode/2up?q=8cm515 Recommended by Marty Goodman in the March 1991 ''Rainbow''.]
* Sony
**[[KV-1311CR]]. Howard Medical Computers and [[Spectrum Projects]] sold CoCo 3 cables for the analog RGB connection.
**[[KX-1211HG]]

* Teknika
**MJ305 [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1987-01/page/n92/mode/1up]

*[[15KHz SVGA Monitors]]

==Arithmetic Processor Units==
*[https://github.com/barberd/coco9511pak CoCo AM9511 Pak]

==Multi Devices==
These are items that serve more than one purpose, such as Cloud-9's SuperBoard.
*[[SuperBoard]]
*[[FHL Eliminator]]
*[[Disto MEB]]

==Printers==
*[[CoCo Printers]]

==RS232 Devices==
*[[Deluxe RS232 Pak]]
*[[Direct Connect Modem Pak]]
*[[Orion Technologies RS232 Pak]]
*[[Disto RS232 Pak]]
*[[PBJ Dual Serial Port Pak]]
*[[Kenton Dual Serial Port Pak]]
*[[Quad Serial Port Pak]] - Who made this?
*[[CoCoPro! RS232 Pak]]
*[[CoNect Dual RS232 Pak]]
*[[CoNect RS232 Pak]]
*[[CoNect 16550 Pak]] - what is the official name?
*[[Metric Model 101p Serial to Parallel Converter]]
*[[Dayton Industries Blue Streak Ultima Serial to Parallel Converter]]
*[https://github.com/barberd/cocousbserial CoCo USB Serial Pak]

==Video Digitizers==
*[[Rascan]]
*[[DS-69 Digisector]]

== Video Out==
=== Historical Solutions ===
*[[PBJ Wordpak/Wordpak II]]
*[[Lucas Industries 2000 AutoDim]]
*[[RGB to VGA Converter]]
*[[CoCo 3 RGB to CGA/EGA Adapter]]

=== Build it yourself ===
*[[CoCo 1 Monochrome Video]]
*[[CoCo 1 composite video]]
*[https://imgur.com/a/XYjvAl8 Coco 1 S-Video Circuit, Simplified] (requires disabling RF) Convert to Composite by adding a 470pf capacitor between the yellow and blue lines and replace the S-Video connector with an RCA connector with center connector on the yellow side of the new capacitor.
*[https://imgur.com/a/Pu7vdHB CoCo 1 and 2 S-Video and Composite Out Circuit]
*[https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1iawKo8rM3PNL5g4nWRu-KFlnn0n_WJ4P CoCo 2 S-Video and Composite Out Circuit]
*[https://imgur.com/TIrk3AE CoCo 1 or 2 YPbPr/YUV Component Out Circuit]
*[https://hackaday.io/project/7366-coco-3-rgb-to-scart-to-hdmi-cable CoCo 3 RGB -> SCART] Use with a SCART to HDMI adapter.

=== Current Solutions to Purchase ===
*[[Video without RF Box]] Use existing RF out on your CoCo 1, 2, or 3 into your TV tuner.
*[https://github.com/hoglet67/RGBtoHDMI RGBtoHDMI] Requires Pi Zero, RGBtoHDMI hat board, and Analog board. Mostly used with CoCo 1s and 2s, but can also be used for PAL CoCo3s to simulate NTSC artifact colors.

==== CoCo 1 or 2 Only ====
Note that these CoCo 1 and 2 solutions require installation.
*[http://cocovga.com/ CoCoVGA for CoCo 1, 2, MC-10, Dragon] A FPGA-based solution that outputs VGA.
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gc_3TPBjFf4 CocoDV for Coco 1 or 2] An FPGA-based solution that plugs into the MC6847 Video Display Generator IC socket on the board and provides HDMI video. Also adds extra functionality like sprites and fonts. Order via email from AC-8 Bit Zone.
*[https://thezippsterzone.com/video-adapters/ Composite Video Out boards for CoCo 2] These are usually marked sold out; email the Zippster and let him know you want one; he'll make up a batch and let you know when they're available.

==== CoCo 3 Only ====
*[https://thezippsterzone.com/2019/03/27/gime-x/ GIME-X for CoCo 3] Replace your GIME chip with this FPGA-based solution that adds VGA output. Also has even more video modes and allows overclocking the CoCo.
*[https://thezippsterzone.com/video-adapters/ RGB2NTSC] CoCo3 to (a better) Composite and S-Video
*[https://cocoman.onlineweb.shop/details/p7004829_20319861.aspx Switch-a-roo CoCo3 to SCART cable] Use with a SCART to HDMI adapter.

== Light Controller ==
*[[X10 Lighting Control]]
*[[Remote Command Controller 26-1182]]

== Mods & Hacking ==
*[[CoCo Turbo Light]]
*[[DCModem to RS232 Pak]]
*[[Disk Drive power LED]]
*[[CoCo repack in PC]]
*[[Speech & Sound Pack Modification for High Speed]]
*[[CoCoEPROMpak]] Schematic board
*[[Fahrfall]] New Game Cartridge and pak
*[https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2247877/ Nowhereman999's Color Computer 3D printable Raspberry Pi case]

[[Category:Hardware]]

Color Mouse

2025-07-26T04:11:25Z

Carney:

Catalog Number 26-3025. Plugged in to either joystick port. One button. [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/m-sale_1987_07.html?fb3d-page=7 Went on sale for $29.95 in the 1987 sales flyer].

=Reviews=

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Y=Year, M=Month, P=Page

|-
! Review !! Author !! Magazine !! Y !! M !! P
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/color-computer-magazine-1984-06/page/n127/mode/2up ''REVIEW$''] || L.R. Jansen || ''[[The Color Computer Magazine]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|84 || style="text-align:center;"|06 || style="text-align:right;"|130
|-
|}

CoCo Printers

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Carney: Added CCF-85 sales flyer discount prices

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CoCo printers came in essentially two types. Ones that were specifically designed, made, and advertised with the CoCo in mind (either exclusively, or with other computers as well), and those that were not and which the CoCo had to use adapters for.

The vast majority of computer printers in the 8-bit era used parallel ports, which the CoCo, being serial-only, does not have.

Other printers did have serial ports, but only the industry-standard, large D-shaped connector with 9 or 25 pins. But the CoCo -- perhaps to cut costs -- did not have that interface either, instead having a distinctive serial interface with a round, 4-pin DIN connector. Radio Shack sold a six-foot male-to-male 4 pin to 4 pin cable for CoCo printing, separately from their CoCos and printers, as Catalog Number 26-3020 for $4.95 starting in 1982's RSC-07, going all the way to RSC-21 in 1990 for $5.95.

But the very first printer Tandy marketed as being CoCo-compatible had a ''5''-pin DIN connector. To connect to a CoCo, it needed the Cat. No. 26-3009, a cable with the 5-pin DIN on one end and the CoCo's standard 4-pin DIN serial connector on the other. The cable was originally intended for the TRS-80 Model I and was called the Model I cassette special serial interface. The printer was soon dropped from Radio Shack's product lineup as soon as other, more practical CoCo printers became available.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ The First CoCo Printer
|-
! Name !! Cat. No. !! Type !! Case !! Branding !! RSC Year !! RSC Debut !! Debut Price || Notes
|-
| Quick Printer II || 26-1115 || Thermal || Silver || Radio Shack || 1979 (1981 for CoCo) || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1981_rsc-04.html?fb3d-page=30 RSC-04, p. 30] || style="text-align:right;"|219.00 || Ultra-narrow (2⅜") and expensive aluminum-coated paper
|}

Before releasing printers with CoCo serial ports, Radio Shack sold printers with industry standard 25-pin serial ports. To use these printers, CoCo owners had to get the more expensive ($19.95) adapter cable with a CoCo-style 4-pin DIN on one side and the normal DB25 serial plug on the other (Cat. No. 26-3014).

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Printers with Standard Serial Ports
|-
! Name !! Cat. No. !! Type !! Case !! Branding !! RSC Debut !! Year !! Price || Notes
|-
| Multi-Pen Plotter || 26-1991 || Color Plotter || Silver/Gray || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1982_rsc-06.html?fb3d-page=23 RSC-06, p.23] || style="text-align:center;"|1982 || style="text-align:right;"|1995.00
|-
|}

By late 1981, Radio Shack finally began releasing printers with CoCo-style serial ports. Although not all Tandy/Radio Shack printers during the CoCo's market life had such ports -- the company continued to release printer models throughout the CoCo era that only had parallel interfaces -- many did have the CoCo-style port. Here's the list:

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Printers with CoCo Serial Ports
|-
! Name !! Cat. No. !! Type !! Case !! Branding !! RSC Debut !! Year !! Price || Notes
|-
| Line Printer VII || 26-1167 || Dot Matrix || Silver/Gray || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1982_rsc-06.html?fb3d-page=20 RSC-06, p.20] || style="text-align:center;"|1982 || style="text-align:right;"|399.00
|-
| Line Printer VIII || 26-1168 || Dot Matrix || Silver/Gray || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1982_rsc-06.html?fb3d-page=20 RSC-06, p.20] || style="text-align:center;"|1982 || style="text-align:right;"|799.00
|-
| [[FP-215]] || 26-1193 || Color Plotter || Silver/Gray || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1983_rsc-08.html?fb3d-page=24 RSC-08, p.24] || style="text-align:center;"|1983 || style="text-align:right;"|995.00 ||
|-
| CGP-115 || 26-1192 || Color Plotter || Silver/Gray || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1983_rsc-08.html?fb3d-page=24 RSC-08, p.24] || style="text-align:center;"|1983 || style="text-align:right;"|249.95 || Narrow (4½" wide) roll paper; [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1985_rsc-12.html?fb3d-page=33 $199.99 RSC-12]
|-
| DMP-100 || 26-1253 || Dot Matrix || Silver/Gray || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1983_rsc-08.html?fb3d-page=20 RSC-08, p.20] || style="text-align:center;"|1983 || style="text-align:right;"|399.00
|-
| DMP-200 || 26-1254 || Dot Matrix || Silver/Gray || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1983_rsc-08.html?fb3d-page=20 RSC-08, p.20] || style="text-align:center;"|1983 || style="text-align:right;"|799.00
|-
| DMP-400 || 26-1251 || Dot Matrix || Silver/Gray || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1983_rsc-08.html?fb3d-page=21 RSC-08, p.21] || style="text-align:center;"|1983 || style="text-align:right;"|1,195.00
|-
| [[CGP-220]] || 26-1268 || Color Inkjet || White || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=31 RSC-10, p.31] || style="text-align:center;"|1984 || style="text-align:right;"|699.00 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1986_rsc-15.html?fb3d-page=60 $599 RSC-15 p. 60], [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/m-sale_1985_06_ccf-685.html?fb3d-page=3 $399 CCF-685]
|-
| DMP-120 || 26-1255 || Dot Matrix || White || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=32 RSC-10, p.32] || style="text-align:center;"|1984 || style="text-align:right;"|499.95 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/m-sale_1985_06_ccf-685.html?fb3d-page=3 $299.95 CCF-685]
|-
| DMP-420 || 26-1267 || Dot Matrix || White || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=33 RSC-10, p.33] || style="text-align:center;"|1984 || style="text-align:right;"|999.00
|-
| DWP-210 || 26-1257 || Daisy Wheel || White ||Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=34 RSC-10, p.34] || style="text-align:center;"|1984 || style="text-align:right;"|799.00 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/m-sale_1984_379.html?fb3d-page=29 $599 SF-379]; [https://archive.org/details/80_Micro_1986-03_CW_Communications_US/page/n23/mode/2up?q=%22DWP-210%22 Discontinued March 86]
|-
| TP-10 || 26-1261 || Thermal || White || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=55 RSC-10, p.55] || style="text-align:center;"|1984 || style="text-align:right;"|99.95 || Narrow 4⅛" Paper; For CoCo & MC-10 '''only''' - no parallel port
|-
| DMP-110 || 26-1271 || Dot Matrix || White || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-11.html?fb3d-page=36 RSC-11, p.36] || style="text-align:center;"|1984 || style="text-align:right;"|399.00
|-
| TRP-100 || 26-1275 || Thermal || White || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1985_rsc-12.html?fb3d-page=37 RSC-12, p.37] || style="text-align:center;"|1985 || style="text-align:right;"|299.95 || Battery capable, meant especially for Model 100 laptop
|-
| DMP-105 || 26-1276 || Dot Matrix || White || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1985_rsc-12.html?fb3d-page=37 RSC-12, p.37] || style="text-align:center;"|1985 || style="text-align:right;"|199.95 || Tandy-branded by [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1986_rsc-15.html?fb3d-page=63 RSC-15, p.63]
|-
| DMP-430 || 26-1277 || Dot Matrix || White || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1985_rsc-12.html?fb3d-page=36 RSC-12, p.36] || style="text-align:center;"|1985 || style="text-align:right;"|899.00
|-
| DWP-220 || 26-1278 || Daisy Wheel || White || Tandy || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1986_rsc-15.html?fb3d-page=61 RSC-15, p.61] || style="text-align:center;"|1985 || style="text-align:right;"|599.00
|-
| DMP-130 || 26-1280 || Dot Matrix || White || Tandy || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1986_rsc-15.html?fb3d-page=63 RSC-16, p.63] || style="text-align:center;"|1986 || style="text-align:right;"|349.95
|-
| DWP-230 || 26-2812 || Daisy Wheel || White || Tandy || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1987_rsc-17.html?fb3d-page=54 RSC-17, p.54] || style="text-align:center;"|1987 || style="text-align:right;"|399.95 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1990_rsc-21.html?fb3d-page=39 $459.95 RSC-21 p.39]; [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/m-sale_1987_04_87.html?fb3d-page=7 $299.95 SF-4 87]; [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/m-sale_1990_454.html?fb3d-page=12 $199.95 SF-454]
|-
| DMP-106 || 26-2802 || Dot Matrix || White || Tandy || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1988_rsc-19.html?fb3d-page=33 RSC-19, p.33] || style="text-align:center;"|1988 || style="text-align:right;"|219.95
|-
| DMP-440 || 26-2808 || Dot Matrix || White || Tandy || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1988_rsc-19.html?fb3d-page=32 RSC-19, p.32] || style="text-align:center;"|1988 || style="text-align:right;"|699.00
|-
| DMP-132 || 26-1814 || Dot Matrix || White || Tandy || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1989_rsc-20.html?fb3d-page=38 RSC-20, p.38] || style="text-align:center;"|1989 || style="text-align:right;"|379.95 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/m-sale_1989_442.html?fb3d-page=22 $219.95 SF-442]
|-
| DMP-133 || 26-1815 || Dot Matrix || White || Tandy || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1990_rsc-21.html?fb3d-page=39 RSC-21, p.39] || style="text-align:center;"|1990 || style="text-align:right;"|379.95 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/m-sale_1989_449.html?fb3d-page=19 $269.95 SF-449 ], [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/m-sale_1990_460.html?fb3d-page=22 $219.95 SF-460]
|-
| DMP-107 || 26-2821 || Dot Matrix || White || Tandy || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1990_rsc-21.html?fb3d-page=39 RSC-21, p.39] || style="text-align:center;"|1990 || style="text-align:right;"|279.95
|-
|}

Tandy also sold two of its CoCo printers under [[Tandy Data Products]] branding, to support the [[TDP-100]]. Both these printers came out in 1982 and had white cases. The TDP-branded version of Radio Shack's CoCo serial cable (Cat. No. 26-3020) was Stock Number 10-1270, also sold for $4.95. One authorized seller was [[Spectrum Projects]].

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ TDP Printers
|-
! Name !! Model/Stock No. !! Type !! Radio Shack Equivalent !! Price
|-
| Line Printer I || 10-1130 || Dot Matrix || DMP-100 || [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1982-11/page/n78/mode/1up 399.00]
|-
| Color Graphics Printer || 10-1100 || Color Plotter || CGP-115 || [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1982-11/page/n78/mode/1up 249.00]
|}

A brisk third-party aftermarket quickly sprang up to offer CoCo users the ability to use non-Radio Shack printers with parallel ports. Given the amount of magazine coverage and software support these printers had, both these printers, and the adapters necessary to make use of them, must have sold reasonably well in the CoCo market.

CGP-220

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Carney: /* Accessories */

{{NavHardware}}

The '''Radio Shack TRS-80 CGP-220''' (Cat. No. 26-1268) is a color inkjet printer. "CGP" stands for "Color Graphics Printer" and the 220 was the second and final printer in Radio Shack's CGP series (the first was the CGP-115, which was actually a plotter rather than a printer). The 220 debuted in 1984's [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=31 RSC-10, p.31] with a list price of $699. Like many Tandy products sold through Radio Shack, it was a licensed (and customized) version of another company's design, namely the Canon PJ-1080A, which Canon licensed out to many other manufacturers as well, including IBM [https://www.thenimbus.co.uk/nimbus-parts-list/colourjet].

Every CGP-220 came bundled with a cassette containing a CoCo color screen dump program in machine language. This despite the CGP-220 also being compatible with, and marketed to, non-CoCo and even non-Tandy/Radio Shack computer owners. This shows how committed to the CoCo Tandy was at the time, and helped to raise the CoCo's profile outside the CoCo community.

The CGP-220 actually had the same Motorola 6809E CPU that the CoCo had, as well as the same 4K RAM the original CoCo came with.

=Articles=
Overall, the CGP-220 was well-received by reviewers.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Y=Year, M=Month, P=Page
|-
! Review !! Author !! Magazine !! Y !! M !! P
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/TRS-80_Microcomputer_News_Volume_5_Issue_10_1983-10_Radio_Shack_US/page/n51/mode/2up ''The CGP-220 Ink Jet Printer''] || Linda Miller || ''[[TRS-80 Microcomputer News]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|10 || style="text-align:right;"|53
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1983-11/page/n243/mode/2up ''Color Ink Jet Printer Is Sensational CoCo Peripheral''] || [[Lonnie Falk]] || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|11|| style="text-align:right;"|242
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/PersonalComputerNews/PersonalComputerNews039-07Dec1983/page/n35/mode/2up ''Technicolour Tandy''] || Bill Davies || ''Personal Computer News'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|12 || style="text-align:right;"|35
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_UCIvSU6Y2GAC/page/n227/mode/2up A Member of the Ink-Jet Set]'' || Mark Zachmann || ''PC Magazine'' || style="text-align:center;"|84 || style="text-align:center;"|02 || style="text-align:right;"|226
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/dragon-user-magazine-11/page/n19/mode/2up Printing Power]'' || Michael Matts || ''[[Dragon User]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|84 || style="text-align:center;"|03 || style="text-align:right;"|20
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/creativecomputing-1984-06/page/n233/mode/2up TRS-80 Strings: CGP-220 Seven-Color Ink Jet Printer]''|| Stephen B. Gray || ''Creative Computing'' || style="text-align:center;"|84 || style="text-align:center;"|06 || style="text-align:right;"|226
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/PC-Mag-1984-11-27/page/n351/mode/2up Radio Shack CGP-220]''|| Vincent Puglia || ''PC Magazine'' || style="text-align:center;"|84 || style="text-align:center;"|11 || style="text-align:right;"|358
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-1984-12/page/n125/mode/2up Meet the Jet Set]''|| Phillip Johnson || ''Popular Computing'' || style="text-align:center;"|84 || style="text-align:center;"|12 || style="text-align:right;"|110
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/80-microcomputing-magazine-1985-01/page/n37/mode/2up Color Me Beautiful: Radio Shack's CGP-220 Color Printer]'' || Bradford N. Dixon || ''[[80 Micro]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|85 || style="text-align:center;"|01 || style="text-align:right;"|36
|-
|}

=Accessories=

{| class="wikitable"
! Name !! Cat. No. !! Price || Notes
|-
| Black Ink Pack || 26-1281 || style="text-align:right;"|9.95 ||
|-
| Tri-Color Ink Pack || 26-1282 || style="text-align:right;"|14.95 ||
|-
| Roll Paper (3 rolls) || 26-1333 || style="text-align:right;"|9.95 || "Recommended for best print quality"
|-
| 8½ x 11" Paper (250 sheets) || 26-1341 || style="text-align:right;"|6.95 ||
|-
| Dust Cover || 26-0533 || style="text-align:right;"|4.95 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=33 RSC-10, p. 33]
|}

=Resources=

[https://colorcomputerarchive.com/repo/Documents/Manuals/Hardware/CGP-220%20(Tandy).pdf CGP-220 User Manual on Color Computer Archive (PDF)]

[[Category:Hardware]]

Rainbow

2025-06-28T18:14:12Z

Carney: added link to Wikipedia article

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{{PublicationInfoBox |
| name =
| photo =
| caption =
| date =
| year = 1981
| enddate =
| endyear = 1993
| location = Prospect, KY
| publisher = Falsoft
| notes =
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}}
'''''The Rainbow''''' was a monthly magazine for the [[TRS-80 Color Computer]] by the [[Tandy Corporation]] (now [[RadioShack]]). It was started by [[Lawrence C. Falk]] (commonly known as Lonnie Falk) and was published from July [[1981]] to May [[1993]] by Falk's company, [[Falsoft]], which was based in Prospect, Kentucky.

The [[CoCo Chronicles]] tell about ''The Rainbow'''s first issues:

:''The Rainbow'''s first issue was all of two pages in length (both sides, of course) and you could tell immediately by the typeset ([[LP VII]]), that no expense was spared in putting together this latest collection of Color Computer information. The debut issue was photocopied at the corner drug store and after the first 25 copies sold out ($1.00 each), another trip to the drugstore was needed for an additional 10 copies.

:Containing the usual assortment of Color Computer articles, comments, tips, and program listings, ''The Rainbow'' became "legit" by the third issue with its first ads from [[The Micro Works]] and from [[JARB Software]].

:Thanks Lonnie!

JARB Software was a contributor of many [[software]] and [[hardware]] articles in early issues of ''The Rainbow''. Starting with the first anniversary issue, the magazine was professionally typeset and had full color covers. The December [[1982]] issue was the first with a square binding.

The magazine featured articles, columns, reviews, tutorials, letters from readers, and advertisements. Many articles presented [[BASIC programming language|BASIC]] or [[assembly language]] [[Computer program|program]] listings. Readers had to type these programs in by hand, unless they ordered a [[cassette]] or [[diskette]] containing these programs, through the ''Rainbow on Tape'' or ''Rainbow on Disk'' service. The BASIC programs were printed in a fixed font with 32 characters per line so that they would show up just as they did on the CoCo's standard 32×16 text screen.

The magazine provided a small program called ''Rainbow Check Plus'' which helped users type in the listings accurately. The program would count the number and values of characters which the user typed in. A small box accompanying a program listing would serve as a [[checksum]] system. It was a two-column table that specified what checksum value was expected for a few chosen lines in the program. For example, after line 140, the checksum was expected to be 149, then after line 290, it was expected to be 21, etc. This system required the user to type the listing exactly as it appeared, including all spaces and possible typographical errors. Some users preferred to edit and improve the program as they typed it, at the risk of making hard-to-find mistakes.

The publication's style was informal. It was mostly geared towards beginners and [[hobby|hobbyists]]. Articles were often accompanied by colorful illustrations, and so was each month's cover. There was also a [[comic strip]] whose main [[character]] was called the ''[[CoCo Cat]]''.

Among the [[columnist]]s were:
* [[William Barden, Jr.]] (''Barden's Buffer''): technical articles often involving low-level assembly language programming;
* [[Tony DiStefano]] (''Turn of the Screw''): hardware projects;
* [[Joseph Kolar]] (''BASIC Training''): tutorials on BASIC language programming;
* [[Cray Augsburg]] (''Delphi Bureau''): coverage of the CoCo community on the [[Delphi online service]];
* [[Fred B. Scerbo]] (''Wishing Well''): BASIC programs based on ideas submitted by readers;
* [[Dale L. Puckett]] (''KISSable OS-9''): coverage of the [[OS-9]] multitasking operating system;
* [[Steve Blyn]] (''Education Notes''): coverage of [[educational software]];
* [[Marty Goodman]] (''CoCo Consultations''), Richard E. Esposito (''Doctor ASCII''), Dan Downard (''Downloads''): answers to technical questions from the readers;
* [[Dennis Lewandowski]] (''The Assembly Corner''): assembly language programming.
* [[Charles J. Roslund]] (''Charlie's Machine'')

Lonnie Falk wrote a monthly editorial titled ''Print#-2,'' (with a comma at the end of the title, because it was part of the syntax of the CoCo BASIC's PRINT command when targeting the [[printer]]).

The advertisements came from some large companies like Tandy but mostly from small software and hardware vendors. While Tandy would have full-page color ads, the small vendors' ads would be smaller and much more modest in style. This reflected the fact that it was relatively easier at the time to start a business in the computer field. The barrier to entry in today's computer industry is arguably higher.

Software and hardware reviews would appear in each issue. The ''Rainbow Certification Seal'' was awarded to a product to certify that it had been seen by the Rainbow staff and that it did exist. It was not however a guarantee of satisfaction since it did not say anything about the quality of the product. The reviews were supposed to fill that role. The certification program started in The Rainbow's second year.

In [[1983]], ''The Rainbow'' started a series of CoCo conventions under the name [[Rainbowfest]].

The magazine had a department called the ''Rainbow Scorecard'' which registered high scores achieved by readers playing CoCo [[video games]].

Each issue of the magazine had a theme that was typically associated with the calendar month. The December issue was the ''Holiday'' issue, while the January issue was the ''Beginners'' issue and was meant as an introduction to the CoCo world for readers who had received a Color Computer for Christmas. August was the ''Games'' issue, September was ''[[Education]]'', November was ''[[Telecommunications]]'', and July was the ''Anniversary'' issue.

Lonnie Falk was elected mayor of Prospect in November [[1993]] and was still in office as of April [[2005]]. Falk [http://www.cocopedia.com/wiki/index.php/Lonnie_Falk died] in [[2006]].
==Magazine Details==
* [[The RAINBOW Magazine 1981]]
::[[The RAINBOW Magazine July 1981|July]], [[The RAINBOW Magazine August 1981|August]], [[The RAINBOW Magazine September 1981|September]], [[The RAINBOW Magazine October 1981|October]], [[The RAINBOW Magazine November 1981|November]], [[The RAINBOW Magazine December 1981|December]]
* [[Rainbow Magazine 1982]]
* [[The RAINBOW Magazine 1982]]
::[[Rainbow Magazine January 1982|January]], [[Rainbow Magazine February 1982|February]], [[Rainbow Magazine March 1982|March]], [[Rainbow Magazine April 1982|April]], [[Rainbow Magazine May 1982|May]], [[Rainbow Magazine June 1982|June]], [[Rainbow Magazine July 1982|July]], [[Rainbow Magazine August 1982|August]], [[Rainbow Magazine September 1982|September]], [[Rainbow Magazine October 1982|October]], [[Rainbow Magazine November 1982|November]], [[Rainbow Magazine December 1982|December]]
* [[Rainbow Magazine 1983]]
::[[Rainbow Magazine January 1983|January]], [[Rainbow Magazine February 1983|February]], [[Rainbow Magazine March 1983|March]], [[Rainbow Magazine April 1983|April]], [[Rainbow Magazine May 1983|May]], [[Rainbow Magazine June 1983|June]], [[Rainbow Magazine July 1983|July]], [[Rainbow Magazine August 1983|August]], [[Rainbow Magazine September 1983|September]], [[Rainbow Magazine October 1983|October]], [[Rainbow Magazine November 1983|November]], [[Rainbow Magazine December 1983|December]]
* [[Rainbow Magazine 1984]]
::[[Rainbow Magazine January 1984|January]], [[Rainbow Magazine February 1984|February]], [[Rainbow Magazine March 1984|March]], [[Rainbow Magazine April 1984|April]], [[Rainbow Magazine May 1984|May]], [[Rainbow Magazine June 1984|June]], [[Rainbow Magazine July 1984|July]], [[Rainbow Magazine August 1984|August]], [[Rainbow Magazine September 1984|September]], [[Rainbow Magazine October 1984|October]], [[Rainbow Magazine November 1984|November]], [[Rainbow Magazine December 1984|December]]
* [[Rainbow Magazine 1985]]
::[[Rainbow Magazine January 1985|January]], [[Rainbow Magazine February 1985|February]], [[Rainbow Magazine March 1985|March]], [[Rainbow Magazine April 1985|April]], [[Rainbow Magazine May 1985|May]], [[Rainbow Magazine June 1985|June]], [[Rainbow Magazine July 1985|July]], [[Rainbow Magazine August 1985|August]], [[Rainbow Magazine September 1985|September]], [[Rainbow Magazine October 1985|October]], [[Rainbow Magazine November 1985|November]], [[Rainbow Magazine December 1985|December]]
* [[Rainbow Magazine 1986]]
::[[Rainbow Magazine January 1986|January]], [[Rainbow Magazine February 1986|February]], [[Rainbow Magazine March 1986|March]], [[Rainbow Magazine April 1986|April]], [[Rainbow Magazine May 1986|May]], [[Rainbow Magazine June 1986|June]], [[Rainbow Magazine July 1986|July]], [[Rainbow Magazine August 1986|August]], [[Rainbow Magazine September 1986|September]], [[Rainbow Magazine October 1986|October]], [[Rainbow Magazine November 1986|November]], [[Rainbow Magazine December 1986|December]]
* [[Rainbow Magazine 1987]]
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* [[Rainbow Magazine 1988]]
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* [[Rainbow Magazine 1989]]
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* [[Rainbow Magazine 1990]]
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* [[Rainbow Magazine 1991]]
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* [[Rainbow Magazine 1993]]
::[[Rainbow Magazine January 1993|January]], [[Rainbow Magazine February 1993|February]], [[Rainbow Magazine March 1993|March]], [[Rainbow Magazine April 1993|April]], [[Rainbow Magazine May 1993|May]]

==Articles Details==
Note: For now, 1981-July to 1984-July, This section is created automatically from a database and will make massive changes, according to the needs, if you want to make corrections or modifications, please comment on the discussion page (talk page), to add them to the database.

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! scope="col" width="30%" | Title
! scope="col" width="15%" | Author
! scope="col" width="35%" | Descriptions
! scope="col" width="8%" | Date
! scope="col" width="5%" | Page
! scope="col" width="5%" | Section
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| [[Music made easy (Rainbow 1981-07)|Music made easy]] || || || 1981-07 || 2 || [[:Category:Music | MUSIC]]
|-
| [[CPU speedup (Rainbow 1981-07)|CPU speedup]] || || || 1981-07 || 3 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
|-
| [[M & N Decoded (Rainbow 1981-07)|M & N decoded]] || || || 1981-07 || 3 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
|-
| [[LP VII driver (Rainbow 1981-07)|LP VII driver]] || || || 1981-07 || 3 || [[:Category:Printer | PRINTER]]
|-
| [[Word processor (Rainbow 1981-07)|Word processor]] || || || 1981-07 || 4 || [[:Category:Word processing | WORD PROC]]
|-
| [[Line justifier (Rainbow 1981-08)|Line justifier]] || || || 1981-08 || 1 || [[:Category:Word processing | WORD PROC]]
|-
| [[CBUG monitor (Rainbow 1981-08)|CBUG monitor]] || || || 1981-08 || 3 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Printer status (Rainbow 1981-08)|Printer status]] || || || 1981-08 || 4 || [[:Category:Printer | PRINTER]]
|-
| [[Thanks for the memories (Rainbow 1981-08)|Thanks for the memories]] || || || 1981-08 || 4 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
|-
| [[Tandy disc-o (Rainbow 1981-08)|Tandy disc-o]] || || || 1981-08 || 5 || [[:Category:Disk | DISK]]
|-
| [[JARBCODE (Rainbow 1981-08)|JARBCODE]] || || || 1981-08 || 5 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[SIGMON (Rainbow 1981-08)|SIGMON]] || || || 1981-08 || 6 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Driver backup (Rainbow 1981-08)|Driver backup]] || || || 1981-08 || 6 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
|-
| [[Using the editor (Rainbow 1981-08)|Using the editor]] || || || 1981-08 || 7 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
|-
| [[Screen printer (Rainbow 1981-08)|Screen printer]] || || || 1981-08 || 7 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
|-
| [[An educational program for everyone (Rainbow 1981-08)|An educational program for everyone]] || || || 1981-08 || 8 || [[:Category:Home/hobby | HOME/HOBBY ]]
|-
| [[Get ready to do battle near laser star (Rainbow 1981-09)|Get ready to do battle near laser star]] || || || 1981-09 || 1 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[Software theft (Rainbow 1981-09)|Software theft]] || || || 1981-09 || 2 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
|-
| [[Text editor - word processor (Rainbow 1981-09)|Text editor - word processor]] || || || 1981-09 || 3 || [[:Category:Word processing | WORD PROC]]
|-
| [[Teacher's helper, student's friend (Rainbow 1981-09)|Teacher's helper, student's friend]] || || || 1981-09 || 4 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
|-
| [[Review: SDS80C]] || || || 1981-09 || 7 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Are you psychotic, psychic (Rainbow 1981-09)|Are you psychotic, psychic]] || || || 1981-09 || 9 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[Graphics printer (Rainbow 1981-09)|Graphics printer]] || || || 1981-09 || 13 || [[:Category:Printer | PRINTER]]
|-
| [[Make your kids like the quiz kids (Rainbow 1981-09)|Make your kids like the quiz kids]] || || || 1981-09 || 14 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[Review: S.E.C.S]] || || || 1981-09 || 16 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[All in one (Rainbow 1981-09)|All in one]] || || || 1981-09 || 17 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
|-
| [[Review: Microworks RAM upgrade (Rainbow 1981-09)| Microworks RAM upgrade]] || || || 1981-09 || 19 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Review: Conflict]] || || || 1981-10 || 2 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Videoprinter]] || [[Mir, Jorge]] || || 1981-10 || 3 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
|-
| [[Videoprinter]] || [[Morgan, Alan J]] || || 1981-10 || 3 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
|-
| [[Review: 80C disassembler]] || || || 1981-10 || 4 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Really using print using]] || || || 1981-10 || 5 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
|-
| [[Screen monitor]] || || || 1981-10 || 7 || [[:Category:Printer | PRINTER]]
|-
| [[Helicopter battleground for you]] || || || 1981-10 || 8 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[Color Space Invaders]] || || || 1981-10 || 9 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[For its — Gin, Gin, Gin]] || || || 1981-10 || 9 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[Tandy disc system is now available]] || || || 1981-11 || 1 || [[:Category:Disk | DISK]]
|-
| [[Basketball statskeeper will have them bouncing along]] || || || 1981-11 || 3 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
|-
| [[Master Control]] || || || 1981-11 || 4 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Times square header]] || || || 1981-11 || 5 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
|-
| [[Serial/parallel converter]] || || || 1981-11 || 5 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[How's your day? Need biorhythm help?]] || || || 1981-11 || 6 || [[:Category:Home/hobby | HOME/HOBBY ]]
|-
| [[Color Meteoroids]] || || || 1981-11 || 7 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Downloading from Videotex]] || [[Mir, Jorge]] || || 1981-11 || 9 || [[:Category:Communications | COMMUNICATIONS]]
|-
| [[Get and Put: High-res movement]] || [[Bennett, Joseph E]] || || 1981-11 || 10 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
|-
| [[Disc savem]] || || || 1981-12 || 1 || [[:Category:Disk | DISK]]
|-
| [[Zelda and her days]] || || || 1981-12 || 2 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[A tale of two discs]] || [[Falk, Lawrence C]] || || 1981-12 || 3 || [[:Category:Disk | DISK]]
|-
| [[Here come the vipers]] || [[Hooper, David]] || || 1981-12 || 5 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[Random numbers make easy fun]] || [[Urban, John L]] || || 1981-12 || 6 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[Random graphic fun]] || [[Foulke, Robert]] || || 1981-12 || 8 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
|-
| [[A form of Csave?]] || || || 1981-12 || 9 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
|-
| [[Chromasette Magazine]] || || || 1981-12 || 9 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Kosmic Kamakaze]] || || || 1981-12 || 11 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Cprint]] || || || 1981-12 || 11 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Machine tape finder/saver]] || [[Mir, Jorge]] || || 1981-12 || 12 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
|-
| [[Space War]] || || || 1981-12 || 14 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Rompack backup]] || || || 1981-12 || 15 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
|-
| [[Animated Hangman]] || || || 1981-12 || 19 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Word processing — A comparison of four different systems]] || [[Falk, Lawrence C]] || || 1982-01 || 1 || [[:Category:Word processing | WORD PROC]]
|-
| [[Shuffle off to cards — of course]] || || || 1982-01 || 2 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[Checkbook balance]] || || || 1982-01 || 3 || [[:Category:Home/hobby | HOME/HOBBY ]]
|-
| [[Creating fantasy game characters with strength and wisdom]] || [[Urban, John L]] || || 1982-01 || 6 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[Disk file conversions]] || || || 1982-01 || 8 || [[:Category:Disk | DISK]]
|-
| [[Get that gobbler!]] || || || 1982-01 || 10 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[Battlefleet]] || || || 1982-01 || 15 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Compumind/Jackpot]] || || || 1982-01 || 16 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Machine language and your disk drive]] || || || 1982-01 || 16 || [[:Category:Disk | DISK]]
|-
| [[How much memory?]] || [[Morgan, Alan J]] || || 1982-01 || 19 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
|-
| [[Galloping gamblers]] || || || 1982-01 || 20 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Rem-d-leet]] || || || 1982-01 || 21 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
|-
| [[Pilfering in low memory]] || [[Diercks, Wayne A]] || || 1982-02 || 1 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
|-
| [[Videotex to disk]] || [[Dudgeon, Jim: and Dudgeon, Michael]] || || 1982-02 || 1 || [[:Category:Communications | COMMUNICATIONS]]
|-
| [[Prepare for tax time — easily]] || [[Falk, Lawrence C]] || || 1982-02 || 2 || [[:Category:Home/hobby | HOME/HOBBY ]]
|-
| [[Gator Zone]] || || || 1982-02 || 8 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Computer-ware's 32K upgrade]] || || || 1982-02 || 9 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Biorhythm and Mine Field]] || || || 1982-02 || 10 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Polygon again]] || || || 1982-02 || 11 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
|-
| [[Chart your flow — and watch 'em go]] || [[Bennett, Joseph E]] || || 1982-02 || 14 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
|-
| [[Snail invaders]] || [[Scerbo, Fred B]] || || 1982-02 || 17 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[Invaders]] || || || 1982-02 || 17 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Generating a FRP character]] || [[Urban, John L]] || || 1982-02 || 18 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[How pretty it is to print pretty]] || || || 1982-02 || 21 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
|-
| [[Silly Syntax]] || || || 1982-02 || 21 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Make an index for your disc]] || [[Mir, Jorge]] || || 1982-02 || 23 || [[:Category:Disk | DISK]]
|-
| [[Give us more vipers!]] || [[White, Richard A]] || || 1982-02 || 26 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[Turn off that motor - fast]] || || || 1982-02 || 30 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
|-
| [[Brickaway]] || || || 1982-02 || 30 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Colorcom/e]] || || || 1982-02 || 31 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Aye, aye, aye — my sky eye]] || || || 1982-03 || 4 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[Do your taxes on your COCO]] || [[Falk, Lawrence C]] || || 1982-03 || 8 || [[:Category:Home/hobby | HOME/HOBBY ]]
|-
| [[Make your REMS stand out]] || [[Davis, Gary A]] || || 1982-03 || 12 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
|-
| [[Build a desk for your CoCo]] || [[Bennett, Joseph E]] || || 1982-03 || 16 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
|-
| [[Gauntlet]] || || || 1982-03 || 18 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Talking Graphic Demo]] || || || 1982-03 || 18 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Wherezitat???]] || || || 1982-03 || 19 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
|-
| [[Brickout/Word Guess]] || || || 1982-03 || 19 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[You and your two-timin' CPU]] || [[Diercks, Wayne A]] || || 1982-03 || 20 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
|-
| [[Motion picture programming (MPP)]] || || || 1982-03 || 24 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
|-
| [[Berserk]] || || || 1982-03 || 25 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Moon Lander]] || || || 1982-03 || 27 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Poking memory with a disc]] || [[Mir, Jorge]] || || 1982-03 || 29 || [[:Category:Disk | DISK]]
|-
| [[Colorterm]] || || || 1982-03 || 29 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Disk directory printout]] || [[Roslund, Charles J]] || || 1982-03 || 31 || [[:Category:Disk | DISK]]
|-
| [[Making CoCo help as an FRP referee]] || [[Urban, John L]] || || 1982-03 || 32 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[Circus Adventure]] || || || 1982-03 || 36 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[PAC Attack]] || || || 1982-03 || 37 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[ML Rabbit]] || || || 1982-03 || 37 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[An educational U.S]] || [[Hooper, David]] || || 1982-03 || 39 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
|-
| [[Spectaculator]] || || || 1982-03 || 43 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Assembly corner]] || [[Lewandowski, Dennis S]] || || 1982-04 || 4 || [[:Category:Assembly language | ASSEMBLY]]
|-
| [[An a-mazing game for your fun]] || [[Bain, Scott L]] || || 1982-04 || 7 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[What — more polygon]] || || || 1982-04 || 10 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
|-
| [[Motion picture programming — the details]] || [[Pouch, Arnold]] || || 1982-04 || 13 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
|-
| [[Color billbars help chart spending]] || [[Mosty, Mark S]] || || 1982-04 || 19 || [[:Category:Home/hobby | HOME/HOBBY ]]
|-
| [[El Casino]] || || || 1982-04 || 25 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Quest]] || || || 1982-04 || 25 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Cave Hunter]] || || || 1982-04 || 25 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Color Invaders]] || || || 1982-04 || 28 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Color Basic and Extended Basic System Reference Card]] || || || 1982-04 || 31 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Light pen]] || || || 1982-04 || 31 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Three new word processors offer a variety of features]] || [[Falk, Lawrence C]] || || 1982-04 || 33 || [[:Category:Word processing | WORD PROC]]
|-
| [[Dancing Devil]] || || || 1982-04 || 35 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Money Minder II]] || || || 1982-04 || 35 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Julie's song — ]] || || || 1982-04 || 36 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[Watch out for the wild, wild web]] || || || 1982-04 || 37 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[A self-mailer saves time and envelopes]] || || || 1982-04 || 38 || [[:Category:Home/hobby | HOME/HOBBY ]]
|-
| [[An 8-bit driver for Basic use]] || [[Reeves, Mark]] || || 1982-04 || 41 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
|-
| [[Save ML programs to your disk]] || [[Mir, Jorge]] || || 1982-04 || 42 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
|-
| [[Make letterheads for correspondence]] || || || 1982-04 || 47 || [[:Category:Home/hobby | HOME/HOBBY ]]
|-
| [[A simple word processor]] || [[Millican, Oscar]] || || 1982-05 || 6 || [[:Category:Word processing | WORD PROC]]
|-
| [[Printing characters on the graphic screen]] || [[Endres, M. H]] || || 1982-05 || 8 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
|-
| [[The Great Word Game]] || || || 1982-05 || 13 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[GSPR]] || || || 1982-05 || 14 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[CCPilot]] || || || 1982-05 || 14 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Creatavador]] || || || 1982-05 || 15 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Scepter of Kzjrgla]] || || || 1982-05 || 15 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[TESTEM will help you prepare for final exams]] || [[Mir, Jorge]] || || 1982-05 || 17 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
|-
| [[80C report from West Coast Computer Faire]] || [[James, Brian]] || || 1982-05 || 20 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
|-
| [[Cmailist]] || || || 1982-05 || 21 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Here some new FRP routines]] || [[Nolan, Bill]] || || 1982-05 || 23 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[How to form 80C user's groups]] || [[White, Richard A]] || || 1982-05 || 27 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
|-
| [[Humbug]] || || || 1982-05 || 28 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Colorforth]] || || || 1982-05 || 29 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Labyrinth]] || || || 1982-05 || 29 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[The famous speedup poke in fine detail]] || [[Morgan, Alan J]] || || 1982-05 || 32 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
|-
| [[War Kings]] || || || 1982-05 || 33 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Cer-Comp disk system]] || || || 1982-05 || 34 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Calixto Island]] || || || 1982-05 || 35 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Motion picture programming — a program to run]] || [[Pouch, Arnold]] || || 1982-05 || 36 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
|-
| [[Name that song]] || || || 1982-05 || 42 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Random dice methods compared and illustrated]] || [[Urban, John L]] || || 1982-05 || 44 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[Assembly corner]] || [[Lewandowski, Dennis S]] || || 1982-05 || 47 || [[:Category:Assembly language | ASSEMBLY]]
|-
| [[For all your secrets — the full Jarbcode program]] || [[Bennett, Joseph E]] || || 1982-05 || 50 || [[:Category:Home/hobby | HOME/HOBBY ]]
|-
| [[Assembly corner]] || [[Lewandowski, Dennis S]] || || 1982-06 || 6 || [[:Category:Assembly language | ASSEMBLY]]
|-
| [[The Solution]] || || || 1982-06 || 8 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Space Invaders]] || || || 1982-06 || 8 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Date-o-base calendar]] || || || 1982-06 || 9 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Compuvoice]] || || || 1982-06 || 11 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[New Talk]] || || || 1982-06 || 11 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Soundsource]] || || || 1982-06 || 11 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[80C picks the National Football League]] || [[Waclo, John]] || || 1982-06 || 12 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
|-
| [[Red Baron]] || || || 1982-06 || 17 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Printers: Overview of some features]] || [[Falk, Lawrence C]] || || 1982-06 || 21 || [[:Category:Printer | PRINTER]]
|-
| [[SISI]] || || || 1982-06 || 23 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Football!]] || || || 1982-06 || 23 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Ice lander can be a slick run]] || [[Shorter, Ted]] || || 1982-06 || 25 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[Disk Doctor]] || || || 1982-06 || 27 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Rainbow seal to help consumers]] || || || 1982-06 || 28 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
|-
| [[Making Spectaculator strut its stuff]] || [[White, Richard A]] || || 1982-06 || 31 || [[:Category:Home/hobby | HOME/HOBBY ]]
|-
| [[Now a whole bag of dice]] || [[Nolan, Bill]] || || 1982-06 || 38 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[Venturer]] || || || 1982-06 || 40 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Getting more from Pmode 4]] || [[Curtis, H. Allen]] || || 1982-06 || 42 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
|-
| [[Swamp Wars can win your croix de lillypad]] || [[Scerbo, Fred ; Doppert, Robert; and Haggerty, Dale]] || || 1982-06 || 49 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[Auto run]] || || || 1982-06 || 52 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Biorhythm]] || || || 1982-06 || 52 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Paper Porter]] || || || 1982-06 || 54 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Universal data file]] || [[Mir, Jorge]] || || 1982-06 || 57 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
|-
| [[Lowerkit, LCA-47]] || || || 1982-06 || 62 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Stars fall on 80C]] || [[Moses, Ray]] || || 1982-06 || 64 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
|-
| [[Blackjack]] || || || 1982-06 || 66 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Speed up your disk]] || || || 1982-06 || 66 || [[:Category:Disk | DISK]]
|-
| [[LEM, Pirate Adventure, Darts]] || || || 1982-07 || 8 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Let's go on a simple Rainbow adventure]] || [[Mir, Jorge]] || || 1982-07 || 9 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[Design programs to help children learn]] || [[Blyn, Steve]] || || 1982-07 || 18 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
|-
| [[Cer-Comp disk system ]] || || || 1982-07 || 20 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[PLAYing around with your 80C]] || [[Penrose, Paul]] || || 1982-07 || 22 || [[:Category:Music | MUSIC]]
|-
| [[Synchronizing with your SAM chip]] || [[Morgan, Alan J]] || || 1982-07 || 24 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
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| [[Spell 'n fix]] || || || 1982-07 || 26 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Exercise Planner]] || || || 1982-07 || 26 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Fantasy games]] || [[Nolan, Bill]] || || 1982-07 || 27 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
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| [[Disk file helps you keep track of everything]] || [[Rutledge, E. P]] || || 1982-07 || 30 || [[:Category:Disk | DISK]]
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| [[Assembly corner: Let's soak up some assembly]] || [[Lewandowski, Dennis S]] || || 1982-07 || 38 || [[:Category:Assembly language | ASSEMBLY]]
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| [[Music]] || || || 1982-07 || 39 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Starship Chameleon]] || || || 1982-07 || 41 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Katerpillar]] || || || 1982-07 || 41 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[There is no escape from this space debris]] || || || 1982-07 || 42 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
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| [[The Basic Handbook]] || || || 1982-07 || 47 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[RS-232 expansion cable]] || || || 1982-07 || 47 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Stock Market Analyzer]] || || || 1982-07 || 48 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Mystery Maze]] || || || 1982-07 || 49 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Pick the winners in the NFL]] || [[Waclo, John]] || || 1982-07 || 50 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
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| [[Viking]] || || || 1982-07 || 64 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[MPP tutorial]] || || || 1982-07 || 64 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Let'scall JOYIN to learn ROM call technique]] || [[Nolan, Bill]] || || 1982-08 || 8 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
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| [[Sort numeric arrays fast with machine language]] || [[Lishnak, Pat]] || || 1982-08 || 9 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
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| [[Here's an easy way to place orders by mail]] || [[Boston, William]] || || 1982-08 || 19 || [[:Category:Home/hobby | HOME/HOBBY ]]
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| [[Assembly corner]] || [[Lewandowski, Dennis S]] || || 1982-08 || 22 || [[:Category:Assembly language | ASSEMBLY]]
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| [[Jarb Joystick]] || || || 1982-08 || 25 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Saspus]] || || || 1982-08 || 25 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Basic Aid]] || || || 1982-08 || 27 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Bwindo]] || || || 1982-08 || 27 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Rockin' through ROM]] || [[Clements, William C, Jr]] || || 1982-08 || 29 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
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| [[FLEX system is powerful addition to world of 80C]] || [[Preble, Lawrence D]] || || 1982-08 || 32 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
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| [[About the Rainbow seal]] || || || 1982-08 || 33 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
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| [[64K upgrade takes a bit of know-how]] || || || 1982-08 || 33 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Battle the alpine aliens]] || || || 1982-08 || 34 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
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| [[Lander]] || || || 1982-08 || 37 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Mars Adventure]] || || || 1982-08 || 37 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Color Computer Graphics]] || || || 1982-08 || 39 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Your video display generator and the PMODE4 colors]] || || || 1982-08 || 39 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
|-
| [[Fantasy Gamer's Package]] || || || 1982-08 || 40 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Good reinforcement means you can't frown at me]] || [[Blyn, Steve]] || || 1982-08 || 41 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
|-
| [[Advmaker makes adventures]] || [[Mir, Jorge]] || || 1982-08 || 47 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
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| [[School Maze]] || || || 1982-08 || 53 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Here is how to pick NFL winners this season]] || [[Waclo, John]] || || 1982-08 || 54 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
|-
| [[Colorhythm]] || || || 1982-08 || 61 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Alpha-draw]] || || || 1982-08 || 61 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Dragons are nice folks, too — almost all 1440 of them!]] || [[Nolan, Bill]] || || 1982-08 || 62 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[Make the Color Computer live up to its name]] || || || 1982-08 || 69 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
|-
| [[Astro Blast]] || || || 1982-08 || 74 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Reference utilities]] || || || 1982-08 || 74 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
|-
| [[Adventure 3-pak]] || || || 1982-08 || 76 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Sky-defense]] || || || 1982-08 || 76 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Converting programs to 80C]] || [[Falk, Lawrence C]] || || 1982-08 || 79 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
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| [[An electronic gradebook]] || [[Lester, Lane P]] || || 1982-09 || 8 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
|-
| [[Let's learn how to do a number picking game]] || [[Walrath, Del]] || || 1982-09 || 15 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[Reading Two-Pak]] || || || 1982-09 || 17 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Disk Interface]] || || || 1982-09 || 20 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[World History]] || || || 1982-09 || 20 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Math Drill]] || || || 1982-09 || 20 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Demons in the dungeon? Let's see them bite]] || [[Nolan, Bill]] || || 1982-09 || 22 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[PUT and GET and random forms make unusual graphics]] || || || 1982-09 || 32 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
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| [[Make the difficulty level variable]] || [[Blyn, Steve]] || || 1982-09 || 35 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
|-
| [[Random Basic]] || || || 1982-09 || 36 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Let's venture into the world of let's pretend]] || [[Albrecht, Bob ; and Firedrake, George]] || || 1982-09 || 38 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[International ping-pong]] || [[Hryzak, Wolfgang]] || || 1982-09 || 41 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[Jungle Trek]] || || || 1982-09 || 43 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Ancient Wisdom]] || || || 1982-09 || 44 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Color Zap]] || || || 1982-09 || 44 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Auto key repeat]] || [[Roslund, Charles J]] || || 1982-09 || 47 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
|-
| [[Geography Pack]] || || || 1982-09 || 49 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Cassette Caddy]] || || || 1982-09 || 49 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Three printer utilities]] || [[Schmidt, Jim]] || || 1982-09 || 51 || [[:Category:Printer | PRINTER]]
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| [[FLEX can be flexible]] || [[Odneal, Steve]] || || 1982-09 || 58 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
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| [[Race the track]] || [[Hine, Al]] || || 1982-09 || 60 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[Mathpac I]] || || || 1982-09 || 70 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Preschool Pak]] || || || 1982-09 || 70 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Inventory Control]] || || || 1982-09 || 71 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Non-graphic printer graphics]] || [[Steyer, David]] || || 1982-09 || 72 || [[:Category:Printer | PRINTER]]
|-
| [[Assembly corner: Questions - Questions and some answers for everyone]] || [[Lewandowski, Dennis S]] || || 1982-09 || 73 || [[:Category:Assembly language | ASSEMBLY]]
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| [[Dog-gone program]] || [[Barringer, James]] || || 1982-09 || 78 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
|-
| [[Handy math drill]] || [[Wells, Geoff]] || || 1982-09 || 82 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[Mission: Empire]] || || || 1982-09 || 88 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[RAM Slam]] || || || 1982-09 || 88 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Tiny Compiler]] || || || 1982-09 || 89 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Galax Attax]] || || || 1982-09 || 90 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[TRS-80 Color Basic]] || || || 1982-09 || 90 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Bug Chase]] || || || 1982-09 || 90 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Math Tutor/Spelling Teacher]] || || || 1982-09 || 91 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[A new way to make words is here]] || [[Wells, Geoff]] || || 1982-09 || 95 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
|-
| [[A calendar to keep track]] || [[Ridge, Herbert]] || || 1982-10 || 8 || [[:Category:Home/hobby | HOME/HOBBY ]]
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| [[Poker]] || || || 1982-10 || 12 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Key your checks to accounts]] || [[Garrett, Ron]] || || 1982-10 || 20 || [[:Category:Home/hobby | HOME/HOBBY ]]
|-
| [[Proper grammar important in educational programs]] || [[Blyn, Steve]] || || 1982-10 || 26 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
|-
| [[A Byte of Color Basic]] || || || 1982-10 || 27 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Stars]] || || || 1982-10 || 27 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Pumpkin Adventure]] || || || 1982-10 || 28 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Color Enhancer]] || || || 1982-10 || 28 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Macro Assembler]] || || || 1982-10 || 30 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Macro 80C]] || || || 1982-10 || 30 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Co-Res Editor/Assembler]] || || || 1982-10 || 30 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[A mini-monitor for machine language use]] || [[Roslund, Charles J]] || || 1982-10 || 38 || [[:Category:Assembly language | ASSEMBLY]]
|-
| [[RND command is one secret to good games]] || [[Albrecht, Bob ; and Firedrake, George]] || || 1982-10 || 46 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[Make a logo]] || [[Goebel, Kathy]] || || 1982-10 || 50 || [[:Category:Printer | PRINTER]]
|-
| [[A Mini-calc program. ]] || [[Ebbert, Jim]] || || 1982-10 || 60 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
|-
| [[Keys to the Wizard]] || || || 1982-10 || 63 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[FH Flex]] || || || 1982-10 || 64 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[How much will it cost to buy on time?]] || [[Sherwood, Francis]] || || 1982-10 || 70 || [[:Category:Home/hobby | HOME/HOBBY ]]
|-
| [[Beautiful Moire patterns]] || [[Reid, Chris]] || || 1982-10 || 74 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
|-
| [[Let's go sailing]] || [[Fraysse, John W, Jr]] || || 1982-10 || 76 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[Keep track with a mailing list]] || [[Bruck, Bill]] || || 1982-10 || 86 || [[:Category:Home/hobby | HOME/HOBBY ]]
|-
| [[Assembly corner: Assembly language makes good graphics easy]] || [[Lewandowski, Dennis S]] || || 1982-10 || 92 || [[:Category:Assembly language | ASSEMBLY]]
|-
| [[Trek 80C]] || || || 1982-10 || 96 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Startrek]] || || || 1982-10 || 96 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[CoCo Cassette]] || || || 1982-10 || 96 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Trek 16]] || || || 1982-10 || 96 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Astrology]] || || || 1982-10 || 100 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[101 Hints and Tricks]] || || || 1982-10 || 100 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Pigskin Predictions]] || || || 1982-10 || 102 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[A pumpkin for your window]] || [[Hooper, David]] || || 1982-10 || 104 || [[:Category:Home/hobby | HOME/HOBBY ]]
|-
| [[Make monstersfrom silicon — and use them here]] || [[Nolan, Bill]] || || 1982-10 || 106 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[Disk Data Handler]] || || || 1982-10 || 110 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Quad Data Base]] || || || 1982-10 || 110 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Endicott Joysticks]] || || || 1982-10 || 112 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Spectrum Stick]] || || || 1982-10 || 112 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[RunCalc]] || || || 1982-10 || 113 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Clock]] || || || 1982-10 || 113 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Colorkit]] || || || 1982-10 || 114 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Set up for accounts receivable]] || [[Garrett, Ron]] || || 1982-10 || 118 || [[:Category:Business | BUSINESS]]
|-
| [[Title video tapes with CoCo]] || [[Rosen, Bob]] || || 1982-10 || 128 || [[:Category:Home/hobby | HOME/HOBBY ]]
|-
| [[A 3-D type game to try]] || [[Scerbo, Fred]] || || 1982-11 || 8 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[The 'initial' experience can be child's play!]] || [[Blyn, Steve]] || || 1982-11 || 18 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
|-
| [[More moire — from downunder]] || [[Delbourgo, R. T.; and Delbourgo, D]] || || 1982-11 || 23 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
|-
| [[Disk Scripsit]] || || || 1982-11 || 25 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Disk Spectaculator]] || || || 1982-11 || 25 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Really combine graphics and text]] || [[Hall, Chris]] || || 1982-11 || 26 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
|-
| [[A cat's heartbeat]] || [[Speer, Mike]] || || 1982-11 || 32 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
|-
| [[Once more we'll go rowing]] || [[Wells, Geoff]] || || 1982-11 || 33 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[The mysterious and unpredictable RND]] || [[Albrecht, Bob ; and Firedrake, George]] || || 1982-11 || 37 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[TIMS]] || || || 1982-11 || 41 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Towers of Hanoi]] || [[Kelley, Robert]] || || 1982-11 || 42 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[Protect your screen from the ravages of scrolling with this machine language scroll protection utility]] || [[Roslund, Charles J]] || || 1982-11 || 46 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
|-
| [[Pac Droids]] || || || 1982-11 || 49 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Planet Invasion]] || || || 1982-11 || 52 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Offenders]] || || || 1982-11 || 52 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Starfire]] || || || 1982-11 || 52 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Protectors]] || || || 1982-11 || 52 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Avenger]] || || || 1982-11 || 52 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Big Num]] || || || 1982-11 || 54 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Songbook]] || || || 1982-11 || 54 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Video Interface Kit]] || || || 1982-11 || 54 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Roman Checkers]] || || || 1982-11 || 55 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Dungeon Maze]] || || || 1982-11 || 55 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[20000 Leagues]] || || || 1982-11 || 56 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Disk ColorCom/E]] || || || 1982-11 || 58 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[SAM Saver]] || || || 1982-11 || 58 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Tecky yes]] || [[Searby, Sue]] || || 1982-11 || 62 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
|-
| [[Madam Rosa's parlor]] || || || 1982-11 || 66 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Escape]] || || || 1982-11 || 66 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Slay your turkey with these 'duel' programs]] || [[Nolan, Bill]] || || 1982-11 || 67 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[Recipe File]] || || || 1982-11 || 72 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Shades of PMODEs 1 and 2 gives you even more colors]] || [[Curtis, H. Allen]] || || 1982-11 || 78 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
|-
| [[Fonehome-E.T. could have used this one]] || [[Davis, Susan P]] || || 1982-11 || 82 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
|-
| [[3-d Brickaway]] || || || 1982-11 || 84 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Graphics? Here are two. ..by George!]] || [[Ziniewicz, George]] || || 1982-11 || 86 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
|-
| [[RS232 Switcher]] || || || 1982-11 || 89 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Assembly corner: Down to business with this ML graphics game]] || [[Lewandowski, Dennis S]] || || 1982-11 || 90 || [[:Category:Assembly language | ASSEMBLY]]
|-
| [[Want some money? Send out a statement]] || [[Garrett, Ron]] || || 1982-11 || 98 || [[:Category:Business | BUSINESS]]
|-
| [[Can you protect Starbase Alpha?]] || [[Ebbert, Jim]] || || 1982-11 || 101 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[CoCo and the educational administrator]] || [[Kimmeiman, Paul]] || || 1982-11 || 105 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
|-
| [[Talk Processor]] || || || 1982-11 || 106 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[A small business accounting system]] || [[Posner, Judd]] || || 1982-11 || 108 || [[:Category:Business | BUSINESS]]
|-
| [[Baseball]] || || || 1982-11 || 112 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[El Diabelero]] || || || 1982-11 || 112 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Invader's Revenge]] || || || 1982-11 || 114 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Golf (Aardvark)]] || || || 1982-11 || 114 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Golf (Mix)]] || || || 1982-11 || 114 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[CCube]] || || || 1982-11 || 116 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Smart Modem]] || || || 1982-11 || 118 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Modem I]] || || || 1982-11 || 118 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[How healthy are you?]] || [[Fernold, John]] || || 1982-11 || 124 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
|-
| [[A simple word processor]] || [[Becker, Barry E.]] || || 1982-11 || 138 || [[:Category:Word processing | WORD PROC]]
|-
| [[The eyes have it]] || [[Dersheimer, Richard]] || || 1982-11 || 142 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
|-
| [[Micro-maestro — using CoCo's PLAY statement]] || [[Nolan, Sara]] || || 1982-12 || 10 || [[:Category:Music | MUSIC]]
|-
| [[Patching EDTASM to run on Disk]] || [[Schrag, Roger]] || || 1982-12 || 29 || [[:Category:Assembly language | ASSEMBLY]]
|-
| [[A Christmas Eve fireplace]] || [[Stumpf, Peter]] || || 1982-12 || 34 || [[:Category:Home/hobby | HOME/HOBBY ]]
|-
| [[Household Expense Manager]] || || || 1982-12 || 36 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Lets take 'Basic' training]] || [[Kolar, Joseph]] || || 1982-12 || 37 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
|-
| [[CoCo Cooler]] || || || 1982-12 || 39 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[High resolution graphics techniques are explained]] || [[Inman, Don]] || || 1982-12 || 41 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
|-
| [[Intergalactic Force]] || || || 1982-12 || 49 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Pressed for time? Paint a dragon!]] || [[Nolan, Bill]] || || 1982-12 || 50 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[Graph Zapper]] || || || 1982-12 || 53 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Let's look at memory]] || [[Hands, Lester]] || || 1982-12 || 54 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
|-
| [[Sustain children's interest by expanding relevance]] || [[Blyn, Steve]] || || 1982-12 || 56 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
|-
| [[Adventure report]] || || || 1982-12 || 61 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[On printing alphanumerics in eight directions]] || [[Kolar, Joseph]] || || 1982-12 || 62 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
|-
| [[Let's write some music]] || [[Konecky, Larry]] || || 1982-12 || 66 || [[:Category:Music | MUSIC]]
|-
| [[Enchanted Forest]] || || || 1982-12 || 74 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Graph-16/32]] || || || 1982-12 || 75 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Parachute or free fall?]] || [[Bennett, Joseph E.; and Laidlaw, C. E]] || || 1982-12 || 76 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[Worksaver]] || || || 1982-12 || 82 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Game Writer]] || || || 1982-12 || 84 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Moving graphics]] || [[Dana, John W]] || || 1982-12 || 85 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
|-
| [[Format your LLISTings with FLIST]] || [[Roslund, Charles J]] || || 1982-12 || 86 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
|-
| [[LOGO]] || || || 1982-12 || 88 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[JARB Memory Kit]] || || || 1982-12 || 92 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Go adventuring with GAPAD]] || [[Wells, Geoff]] || || 1982-12 || 98 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[Assembly corner: Let's blast those 'vaders.']] || [[Lewandowski, Dennis S]] || || 1982-12 || 106 || [[:Category:Assembly language | ASSEMBLY]]
|-
| [[Three disk utilities give you filing help]] || [[Selig, Paul]] || || 1982-12 || 110 || [[:Category:Disk | DISK]]
|-
| [[Craps]] || || || 1982-12 || 112 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Unidatfl revisited?]] || [[Weiss, Arnold]] || || 1982-12 || 114 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
|-
| [[Keep a Ham radio log]] || [[Witham, Burton B., Jr]] || || 1982-12 || 124 || [[:Category:Home/hobby | HOME/HOBBY ]]
|-
| [[Search for words — any words]] || [[O'Donnell, Timothy]] || || 1982-12 || 130 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[Graphics word processing]] || [[Chamberlain, Ross]] || || 1982-12 || 136 || [[:Category:Printer | PRINTER]]
|-
| [[Across the Rubicon]] || || || 1982-12 || 141 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Bulletin Board Software]] || || || 1982-12 || 142 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Semi-draw]] || || || 1982-12 || 144 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Colorpede]] || || || 1982-12 || 144 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Software in the classroom]] || [[Kimmelman, Paul; and Macali, David]] || || 1982-12 || 146 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
|-
| [[CcForth]] || || || 1982-12 || 148 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Color Forth]] || || || 1982-12 || 148 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Tower Castle Adventure]] || || || 1982-12 || 154 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Micro Script]] || || || 1982-12 || 156 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Telewriter Disk]] || || || 1982-12 || 156 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Wordclone]] || || || 1982-12 || 156 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Gangbusters]] || || || 1982-12 || 161 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Dragonquest]] || || || 1982-12 || 162 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[For these three friends the outcome's a bit dicey]] || [[Albrecht, Bob ; and Firedrake, George]] || || 1982-12 || 168 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
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| [[CGP-115 Printer]] || || || 1982-12 || 168 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Colorshow]] || || || 1982-12 || 171 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Reversi]] || || || 1982-12 || 173 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Frog Man]] || || || 1982-12 || 173 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Rail Runner]] || || || 1982-12 || 173 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Laser Tank Duel]] || || || 1982-12 || 174 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Taking Basic training]] || [[Kolar, Joseph]] || || 1983-01 || 10 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
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| [[Bits and bytes of Basic]] || [[White, Richard A]] || || 1983-01 || 12 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
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| [[Create a characterfile program]] || [[Nolan, Bill]] || || 1983-01 || 15 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
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| [[Go adventuring with GAPAD. ]] || [[Wells, Geoff]] || || 1983-01 || 18 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
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| [[Having an adventure with adventure]] || [[Reed, Jim]] || || 1983-01 || 20 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
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| [[Sir Randolf of the Moors]] || [[Clark, Gregory]] || || 1983-01 || 26 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
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| [[Dungeon adventure]] || [[Ricketts, Gregory]] || || 1983-01 || 50 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
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| [[Disk Double Entry]] || || || 1983-01 || 70 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Small business accounting package]] || || || 1983-01 || 70 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Invitations made easy]] || [[Dooman, Bob]] || || 1983-01 || 74 || [[:Category:Home/hobby | HOME/HOBBY ]]
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| [[The serial/parallel syndrome: what's that?]] || [[Searby, Sue]] || || 1983-01 || 76 || [[:Category:Printer | PRINTER]]
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| [[High speed POKE has effect on CoCo hardware]] || [[DiStefano, Tony]] || || 1983-01 || 78 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
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| [[A super duper for Hams]] || [[Witham, Burton B., Jr]] || || 1983-01 || 80 || [[:Category:Home/hobby | HOME/HOBBY ]]
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| [[X-pad]] || || || 1983-01 || 84 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[ 'Userfriendly' requires friendly users]] || [[Blyn, Steve]] || || 1983-01 || 92 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
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| [[Assembly corner: Let's end those typing errors once and for all]] || [[Lewandowski, Dennis S]] || || 1983-01 || 95 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
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| [[Achieving motion with GETand PUT]] || [[Inman, Don]] || || 1983-01 || 106 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
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| [[Mathpal will teach youngsters]] || [[Hooper, David]] || || 1983-01 || 111 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
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| [[Speed up Basic with ML injections]] || [[Roslund, Charles J]] || || 1983-01 || 118 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
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| [[UP-1]] || || || 1983-01 || 121 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Get into the Hobbit of playing]] || [[Sweat, David]] || || 1983-01 || 122 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
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| [[An index to The Rainbow?]] || [[Wilson, M. P]] || || 1983-01 || 126 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
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| [[Who goes on Random Walks]] || [[Delbourgo, R. T]] || || 1983-01 || 130 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
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| [[Spectrum Paddle]] || || || 1983-01 || 134 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Illustrating lectures with graphics]] || [[Lester, Lane P]] || || 1983-01 || 136 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
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| [[Make a hex pad loader]] || [[Hasenstaub, Theodore P]] || || 1983-01 || 143 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
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| [[Cassette Holder]] || || || 1983-01 || 147 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Printer Stand]] || || || 1983-01 || 147 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Donkey King]] || || || 1983-01 || 152 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Dunkey Munkey]] || || || 1983-01 || 152 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Money]] || || || 1983-01 || 154 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Establishing a CoCo educational network]] || [[Kimmelman, Paul; and Macali, David]] || || 1983-01 || 154 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
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| [[Pinball]] || || || 1983-01 || 158 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Megabug]] || || || 1983-01 || 158 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Laser Tank]] || || || 1983-01 || 159 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Spider Attack]] || || || 1983-01 || 160 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Spider]] || || || 1983-01 || 160 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[FLEX revisited]] || || || 1983-01 || 160 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Doodlebug]] || || || 1983-01 || 162 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Solo Pool]] || || || 1983-01 || 162 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Game Pak 2]] || || || 1983-01 || 163 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Now lookit that!]] || [[Pollard, Ed]] || || 1983-01 || 164 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
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| [[Jumps]] || || || 1983-01 || 164 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Sub Mission]] || || || 1983-01 || 165 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[64K conversion? Now what?]] || [[Mir, Jorge]] || || 1983-01 || 166 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
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| [[Star Trench Warfare]] || || || 1983-01 || 168 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Create three-dimensional graphics with SAR27]] || [[Krikorian, Edward]] || || 1983-01 || 170 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
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| [[Game Show]] || || || 1983-01 || 174 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[A graphic look at basic trigonometry]] || [[Rumbant, C. A]] || || 1983-01 || 175 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
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| [[Missile Barrage]] || || || 1983-01 || 183 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Moptown]] || || || 1983-01 || 183 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Fundgraf]] || || || 1983-01 || 187 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Color Scarfman]] || || || 1983-01 || 189 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Sign up and have a Banner day]] || [[Steyer, David]] || || 1983-01 || 190 || [[:Category:Printer | PRINTER]]
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| [[CoCo Slots]] || || || 1983-01 || 196 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[BT1000 Interface]] || || || 1983-01 || 198 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Expansion Interface]] || || || 1983-01 || 198 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Spectaculator statistics. ]] || [[Posner, Judd]] || || 1983-02 || 10 || [[:Category:Home/hobby | HOME/HOBBY ]]
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| [[Random often needs a helping hand]] || [[Blyn, Steve]] || || 1983-02 || 14 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
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| [[Render unto IRS]] || [[Lester, Lane P]] || || 1983-02 || 18 || [[:Category:Home/hobby | HOME/HOBBY ]]
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| [[Creating characters for fun and adventure]] || [[Albrecht, Bob]] || || 1983-02 || 26 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
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| [[Light pen fun-pak]] || || || 1983-02 || 32 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Spectrum light pen]] || || || 1983-02 || 32 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Stay alive at Outpost Five]] || [[Preble, Lawrence D]] || || 1983-02 || 34 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
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| [[Joystick LED kit]] || || || 1983-02 || 36 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Hang 'em up]] || [[L'Hommedieu, Douglas C]] || || 1983-02 || 40 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
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| [[Work on your grammar]] || [[Betts, R. Bartley]] || || 1983-02 || 48 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
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| [[Battle of Gettysburg]] || || || 1983-02 || 54 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Let's organize that jumble of tapes]] || [[Kolar, Joseph]] || || 1983-02 || 56 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
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| [[The latest program? Here's a dating system]] || [[Mir, Jorge]] || || 1983-02 || 58 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
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| [[Star-DOS]] || || || 1983-02 || 60 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[CC calc]] || || || 1983-02 || 62 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[And now — haunted house adventure]] || [[Wells, Geoff]] || || 1983-02 || 64 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
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| [[Flow gently, sweet listing]] || [[Deahl, Kenneth G]] || || 1983-02 || 74 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
|-
| [[Addition concepts]] || || || 1983-02 || 77 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Master disk system]] || || || 1983-02 || 77 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Poltergeist]] || || || 1983-02 || 82 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Foxygraf]] || || || 1983-02 || 84 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Five exciting games]] || || || 1983-02 || 86 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[TP-1 printer]] || || || 1983-02 || 86 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Well-defined variables produce clarity, conservation]] || [[White, Richard A]] || || 1983-02 || 88 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
|-
| [[Wet T-shirt contest]] || || || 1983-02 || 92 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Assembly language graphics (book)]] || || || 1983-02 || 94 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[A catalog for your tape]] || [[Sullivan, Steve]] || || 1983-02 || 96 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
|-
| [[Cheat at adventure]] || [[Keyes, Michael J]] || || 1983-02 || 99 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[Las Vegas weekend]] || || || 1983-02 || 100 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[A common denominatorfor math study and ease]] || [[Crooks, Robert L]] || || 1983-02 || 102 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
|-
| [[CoCo knows all the call- signs]] || [[Witham, Burton B., Jr]] || || 1983-02 || 110 || [[:Category:Home/hobby | HOME/HOBBY ]]
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| [[The rewards of non-standard interfacing]] || [[Downard, Dan]] || || 1983-02 || 118 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
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| [[CoCo as an educational bargain]] || [[Kimmelman, Paul ; and Macali, David]] || || 1983-02 || 124 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
|-
| [[Make authoritative decisions with this situational model]] || [[Peppenhorst, Stan]] || || 1983-02 || 132 || [[:Category:Business | BUSINESS]]
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| [[Five year's worth of income tax]] || [[Ray, R. D]] || || 1983-02 || 148 || [[:Category:Home/hobby | HOME/HOBBY ]]
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| [[Inside TDP]] || [[Rosen, Bob]] || || 1983-02 || 154 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
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| [[Construct a finger-saving circuit for your joystick]] || [[DiStefano, Tony]] || || 1983-02 || 156 || [[:Category:Utility-hardware | UTILITY-HARD]]
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| [[CC mailer]] || || || 1983-02 || 158 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Millborn]] || || || 1983-02 || 159 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Control your home]] || [[Trevor, Alexander B]] || || 1983-02 || 160 || [[:Category:Home/hobby | HOME/HOBBY ]]
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| [[Maze race]] || || || 1983-02 || 168 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Checking account]] || || || 1983-02 || 169 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[CCEAD]] || || || 1983-02 || 170 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Text pro II]] || || || 1983-02 || 176 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Bird attack]] || || || 1983-02 || 178 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Continuing your character record file]] || [[Nolan, Bill]] || || 1983-02 || 179 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
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| [[Warrior and the Wizard]] || || || 1983-02 || 180 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Qtax-82]] || || || 1983-02 || 180 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Stripper]] || || || 1983-02 || 182 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Flight]] || || || 1983-02 || 182 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Blackjack]] || || || 1983-02 || 184 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Techniques for plotting screen graphs]] || [[Inman, Don]] || || 1983-02 || 186 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
|-
| [[Alphabet soup]] || || || 1983-02 || 192 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Assembly corner: A look at editor/assemblers]] || [[Lewandowski, Dennis S]] || || 1983-02 || 194 || [[:Category:Assembly language | ASSEMBLY]]
|-
| [[ROML]] || || || 1983-02 || 197 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Dice]] || || || 1983-02 || 198 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Virtual memory loader]] || || || 1983-02 || 198 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Once again with adventure]] || [[Reed, Jim]] || || 1983-02 || 200 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[Marquee de fin]] || [[Goldberg, Morton]] || || 1983-02 || 204 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[Change those print's to print -2's]] || [[Blatt, Ted]] || || 1983-02 || 207 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
|-
| [[Roll those bones (and other characteristics)]] || [[Albrecht, Bob]] || || 1983-03 || 12 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[Screen-to-printer color graphics]] || [[Lester, Lane P]] || || 1983-03 || 18 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
|-
| [[Professional keyboard]] || || || 1983-03 || 20 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Wall Street]] || || || 1983-03 || 20 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Furniture for the classroom computer]] || [[Kimmelman, Paul]] || || 1983-03 || 24 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
|-
| [[Two illusions]] || [[Delbourgo, D.; Delbourgo, R.; and Latner, Norman]] || || 1983-03 || 28 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
|-
| [[Half life of nuclear decay]] || [[Lengyel, David]] || || 1983-03 || 34 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
|-
| [[Homebase]] || || || 1983-03 || 36 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Predicting fallout]] || [[Mickle, Dan]] || || 1983-03 || 40 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
|-
| [[Home buyer's analyser]] || || || 1983-03 || 52 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[DOS 'detach' saves wear and tear]] || [[Schroeder, Herbert]] || || 1983-03 || 54 || [[:Category:Utility-hardware | UTILITY-HARD]]
|-
| [[Power of attorney]] || [[Knight, Glenn B]] || || 1983-03 || 56 || [[:Category:Business | BUSINESS]]
|-
| [[Let CoCo keep track of your utility bills]] || [[Weide, Dennis H]] || || 1983-03 || 64 || [[:Category:Home/hobby | HOME/HOBBY ]]
|-
| [[Starship Hercules]] || || || 1983-03 || 81 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Match-it]] || || || 1983-03 || 82 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Control your screen]] || [[Roberts, R. N]] || || 1983-03 || 84 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
|-
| [[Final countdown]] || || || 1983-03 || 90 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Analysis of variance: A 'nova' for CoCo]] || [[Sherrill, Sam]] || || 1983-03 || 94 || [[:Category:Home/hobby | HOME/HOBBY ]]
|-
| [[D-board 64K upgrade]] || [[Alsop, B. H]] || || 1983-03 || 100 || [[:Category:Utility-hardware | UTILITY-HARD]]
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| [[Using graphics]] || [[Inman, Don]] || || 1983-03 || 102 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
|-
| [[Consequences from downunder]] || [[Delbourgo, T. ; and Delbourgo, R]] || || 1983-03 || 110 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[CoCo-jot]] || || || 1983-03 || 114 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Ghostmania]] || || || 1983-03 || 116 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[CCthello]] || || || 1983-03 || 120 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Minefield]] || || || 1983-03 || 124 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Tower of fear]] || || || 1983-03 || 124 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[ Hard copy your diskette listings with style]] || [[Plog, Michael]] || || 1983-03 || 126 || [[:Category:Disk | DISK]]
|-
| [[More organization: create a tape register]] || [[Kolar, Joseph]] || || 1983-03 || 132 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
|-
| [[Stinger]] || || || 1983-03 || 134 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Can you deactivate the bomb?]] || [[Stewart, David A]] || || 1983-03 || 136 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[Revolution]] || || || 1983-03 || 138 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Defense]] || || || 1983-03 || 142 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Sub at 30 fathoms]] || [[Shelf, Carl]] || || 1983-03 || 144 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[Clock]] || || || 1983-03 || 150 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Micro-doc]] || || || 1983-03 || 150 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[But, what did I get wrong?]] || [[Blyn, Steve]] || || 1983-03 || 152 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
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| [[Homing in on a guided missile system]] || [[Fraysse, John W, Jr]] || || 1983-03 || 154 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
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| [[Smartsforadumbterminal]] || [[Downard, Dan]] || || 1983-03 || 160 || [[:Category:Communications | COMMUNICATIONS]]
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| [[Son of graphic traffic]] || [[Dana, John W]] || || 1983-03 || 164 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
|-
| [[Low resolution drawing]] || [[Franksen, Aaron]] || || 1983-03 || 166 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
|-
| [[Remoterm]] || || || 1983-03 || 170 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Preread package]] || || || 1983-03 || 172 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Inspector Clueseau]] || || || 1983-03 || 173 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[What's a monitor?]] || [[Searby, Sue]] || || 1983-03 || 174 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
|-
| [[Green on black video: 'eye friendly' conversion]] || [[DiStefano, Tony]] || || 1983-03 || 176 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
|-
| [[A rapid logger for HAMs]] || [[Witham, Burton B., Jr]] || || 1983-03 || 180 || [[:Category:Home/hobby | HOME/HOBBY ]]
|-
| [[Stress evaluator]] || || || 1983-03 || 190 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[This routine draws circles around the rest, randomly]] || [[Germann, Karl]] || || 1983-03 || 191 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
|-
| [[Let's look at keyboard input]] || [[White, Richard A]] || || 1983-03 || 192 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
|-
| [[Frog Trek]] || || || 1983-03 || 197 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Spelling practice]] || [[Pesha, Ronald]] || || 1983-03 || 198 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
|-
| [[Top Stix]] || || || 1983-03 || 199 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Double Stick interface]] || || || 1983-03 || 199 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Bigfoot]] || || || 1983-03 || 200 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Check your TV alignment]] || [[Cromley, David A]] || || 1983-03 || 201 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
|-
| [[Create character files with this 'finished' program]] || [[Nolan, Bill]] || || 1983-03 || 202 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[Wormhole]] || || || 1983-03 || 216 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Assembly corner: Beyond the 'Vaders.']] || [[Lewandowski, Dennis S]] || || 1983-03 || 218 || [[:Category:Assembly language | ASSEMBLY]]
|-
| [[Nibbler]] || || || 1983-03 || 223 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Ms. Nibbler]] || || || 1983-03 || 223 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Flashy program, by thunder. ]] || [[Plaxton, John]] || || 1983-04 || 16 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
|-
| [[Install a chip-saving 'power-on' light]] || [[Clements, William C, Jr]] || || 1983-04 || 18 || [[:Category:Utility-hardware | UTILITY-HARD]]
|-
| [[Tick tock, CoCo clock]] || [[Trevor, Alexander B]] || || 1983-04 || 20 || [[:Category:Home/hobby | HOME/HOBBY ]]
|-
| [[Space race]] || || || 1983-04 || 24 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Electricity consumption monitor]] || || || 1983-04 || 26 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[First Saturday in May]] || [[Becker, Rob]] || || 1983-04 || 28 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[Pop quiz: Name the 50 capitals]] || [[Faessler, Chuck]] || || 1983-04 || 34 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
|-
| [[CoCo cabinet]] || [[Bauter, Curtis J]] || || 1983-04 || 36 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
|-
| [[Spanish one]] || || || 1983-04 || 40 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Kamikaze]] || || || 1983-04 || 42 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[The Rainbug monitor]] || [[Downard, Dan]] || || 1983-04 || 44 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
|-
| [[3D tic tac toe]] || || || 1983-04 || 52 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Legal discussion on the Color Computer]] || [[Nelson, Tom]] || || 1983-04 || 56 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
|-
| [[Iowa lemonade]] || [[French, Paul]] || || 1983-04 || 60 || [[:Category:Simulation | SIMULATION]]
|-
| [[Catch 'em]] || || || 1983-04 || 72 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Doubleback]] || || || 1983-04 || 72 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Make this handy reusable graphics grid]] || [[Gray, Thomas]] || || 1983-04 || 73 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
|-
| [[Building Spectaculator shells]] || [[Ericson, Robert W]] || || 1983-04 || 74 || [[:Category:Business | BUSINESS]]
|-
| [[Right justify numbers]] || [[Hall, Mike]] || || 1983-04 || 77 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
|-
| [[Keytones help input]] || [[Provost, James]] || || 1983-04 || 77 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
|-
| [[Data communications and your Color Computer]] || [[Hardy, Harry]] || || 1983-04 || 78 || [[:Category:Communications | COMMUNICATIONS]]
|-
| [[Super pro keyboard]] || || || 1983-04 || 81 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Paging down memory land: It may look like garbage, but it's good]] || [[Krankoski, Richard]] || || 1983-04 || 82 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
|-
| [[Dump to camera: Photographing your monitor]] || [[Rothermal, Bruce]] || || 1983-04 || 88 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
|-
| [[Build a light pen]] || [[Hasenstaub, Theodore P]] || || 1983-04 || 90 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
|-
| [[Exercise your strings with this vowel checker]] || [[Blyn, Steve]] || || 1983-04 || 96 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
|-
| [[Assembly corner: Write an ML program to handle BASIC chores]] || [[Lewandowski, Dennis S]] || || 1983-04 || 98 || [[:Category:Assembly language | ASSEMBLY]]
|-
| [[64K screen expander]] || || || 1983-04 || 100 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Protectors]] || || || 1983-04 || 102 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Tie an ASCI I border 'round CoCo]] || [[Gauvreau, Ray]] || || 1983-04 || 104 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
|-
| [[Conquest of Kzirgla]] || || || 1983-04 || 105 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Now, let's make some regular polygons]] || [[inman, Don]] || || 1983-04 || 106 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
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| [[Micro-meltdown: A nuclear reactor simulation]] || [[Latham, Chris ; and Erickson, John]] || || 1983-04 || 112 || [[:Category:Simulation | SIMULATION]]
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| [[Speak up!]] || || || 1983-04 || 132 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[File cabinet]] || || || 1983-04 || 134 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Bar zapper]] || || || 1983-04 || 136 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Super 'Color' disk zap]] || || || 1983-04 || 138 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Robot battle]] || || || 1983-04 || 140 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Shark treasure]] || || || 1983-04 || 144 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[How to reduce that RFI on your monitor]] || [[DiStefano, Tony]] || || 1983-04 || 146 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
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| [[Bridge tutor I]] || || || 1983-04 || 148 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Death star]] || || || 1983-04 || 150 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Beyond the Cimeeon Moon]] || || || 1983-04 || 152 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Synther-7]] || || || 1983-04 || 156 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Crystal revenge]] || || || 1983-04 || 160 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[A colorful game of draw: That's color poker]] || [[Kohn, Joseph]] || || 1983-04 || 162 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
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| [[Keeping the loathsome in line (better monster management)]] || [[Nolan, Bill]] || || 1983-04 || 170 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
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| [[Offset easy]] || [[Poulin, Edgar]] || || 1983-04 || 172 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
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| [[Living with one disk]] || [[Hefter, Martin]] || || 1983-04 || 174 || [[:Category:Disk | DISK]]
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| [[Everything you wanted to know about hex]] || [[Schmidt, Jim]] || || 1983-04 || 178 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
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| [[Three easy pieces: one animator's art]] || [[Lai, Stephen]] || || 1983-04 || 188 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
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| [[Preschool packs 1, 2, 3]] || || || 1983-04 || 192 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Patching the patch: EDTASM to disk revealed]] || [[Schrag, Roger]] || || 1983-04 || 194 || [[:Category:Assembly language | ASSEMBLY]]
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| [[Let's share some of your useful hints]] || [[Kolar, Joseph]] || || 1983-04 || 200 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
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| [[LLIST-rite]] || || || 1983-04 || 204 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Spectrum switcher]] || || || 1983-04 || 207 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Eight-bit bartender]] || || || 1983-04 || 208 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Panostyk]] || || || 1983-04 || 214 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[CoCo says repeat this tune]] || [[Konecky, Larry]] || || 1983-04 || 218 || [[:Category:Music | MUSIC]]
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| [[Education and the Color Computer]] || [[Kimmelman, Paul]] || || 1983-04 || 224 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
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| [[Let's try fantasy role playing games]] || [[Firedrake, George ; and Albrecht, Bob]] || || 1983-04 || 226 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
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| [[Android attack]] || || || 1983-04 || 232 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Curvfitz is number cruncher of the first order]] || [[Laessig, Mark]] || || 1983-04 || 234 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
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| [[Gazon]] || || || 1983-04 || 240 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Who wrote the Rainbow's first trivia game?]] || [[Wick, Gary]] || || 1983-06 || 16 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
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| [[Building a Color Computer to EPSOM MX printer interface]] || [[Snyder, Dennis]] || || 1983-06 || 20 || [[:Category:Printer | PRINTER]]
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| [[Making a bar graph of your child's test scores]] || [[Blyn, Steve]] || || 1983-06 || 28 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
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| [[Spruce up your tapes with this cassette label print program]] || [[Ray, J. D]] || || 1983-06 || 30 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
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| [[Rainbow roach]] || [[Fraysse, John W, Jr]] || || 1983-06 || 38 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
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| [[Flying the 'Sopwith with CoCo — an instrument flight simulation in real time]] || [[Franklin, William G]] || || 1983-06 || 54 || [[:Category:Simulation | SIMULATION]]
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| [[Got a program? Get a market!]] || [[Nelson, Tom]] || || 1983-06 || 64 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
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| [[Stagecoach]] || || || 1983-06 || 68 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Memories of the PROM]] || [[DiStefano, Tony]] || || 1983-06 || 72 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
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| [[Assembly corner: Be nice to your printer — give it this AL word processor]] || [[Lewandowski, Dennis S]] || || 1983-06 || 76 || [[:Category:Word processing | WORD PROC]]
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| [[This will program your keys on Professional Keyboard]] || [[Rosen, Bob]] || || 1983-06 || 80 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
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| [[A FORMATR for the Gemini]] || [[Bonne, Bill]] || || 1983-06 || 82 || [[:Category:Printer | PRINTER]]
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| [[How to 'zonk proof your disk directories]] || [[Szlucha, Thomas F]] || || 1983-06 || 84 || [[:Category:Disk | DISK]]
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| [[Zarconian marble]] || || || 1983-06 || 88 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Epson interface]] || || || 1983-06 || 88 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Let's get serious shifting axes in quads I and IV]] || [[Inman, Don]] || || 1983-06 || 90 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
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| [[X10 protocol theory: Home power control part 3]] || [[Trevor, Alexander B. ; and Yahn, Charles]] || || 1983-06 || 98 || [[:Category:Home/hobby | HOME/HOBBY ]]
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| [[Gemini 10/15]] || || || 1983-06 || 109 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Using VARPTR, Basic's hidden command]] || [[Mummaw, Ron]] || || 1983-06 || 110 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
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| [[3-D graph plotting of multiple variables]] || [[Delbourgo, Robert]] || || 1983-06 || 116 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
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| [[Autoterm]] || || || 1983-06 || 118 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Using DATA lines to cache your creatures]] || [[Nolan, Bill]] || || 1983-06 || 124 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
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| [[CoCo Crypto — a three-star puzzler]] || [[Reid, Chris]] || || 1983-06 || 132 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
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| [[Want a workhorse editor? Here's Mr. Ed]] || [[Samm, Hubert E., Jr]] || || 1983-06 || 140 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
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| [[Estimating reading difficulty sentence-by-sentence]] || [[Kretschmer, J. C]] || || 1983-06 || 148 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
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| [[Card game]] || || || 1983-06 || 152 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Zaksund]] || || || 1983-06 || 154 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Zaxxon]] || || || 1983-06 || 154 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Line printer conversion chart]] || || || 1983-06 || 156 || [[:Category:Printer | PRINTER]]
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| [[If it's not the 'F board, how about the '285?']] || [[Reilly, Mike]] || || 1983-06 || 160 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
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| [[Words that act]] || || || 1983-06 || 162 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Words about things]] || || || 1983-06 || 162 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[INSIMB]] || || || 1983-06 || 170 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[CPP]] || || || 1983-06 || 172 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Developing a program]] || [[White, Richard A]] || || 1983-06 || 174 || [[:Category:Communications | COMMUNICATIONS]]
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| [[Hebrew bulletin board]] || || || 1983-06 || 180 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[The Composer]] || || || 1983-06 || 192 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Carry]] || || || 1983-06 || 195 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Soooper pac]] || || || 1983-06 || 195 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Peripherals for the Color Computer 'joystick dilemma.']] || [[Macali, David]] || || 1983-06 || 196 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
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| [[Print it bigger than you can]] || [[White, Richard A]] || || 1983-06 || 198 || [[:Category:Printer | PRINTER]]
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| [[Pro-color file]] || || || 1983-06 || 208 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[DMP 200]] || || || 1983-06 || 210 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Telewriter-64]] || || || 1983-06 || 216 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Co-existence]] || || || 1983-06 || 219 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[BASIC programming primer]] || || || 1983-06 || 220 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Monsters & Magic]] || || || 1983-06 || 222 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Banner]] || || || 1983-06 || 223 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Crosswords]] || || || 1983-06 || 224 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Color Text]] || || || 1983-06 || 226 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[CGP II]] || || || 1983-06 || 230 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Education and the Color Computer]] || [[Kimmelman, Paul]] || || 1983-06 || 232 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
|-
| [[Who is this one called CVCVC?]] || [[Albrecht, Bob ; and Firedrake, George]] || || 1983-06 || 234 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
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| [[Data communications and your Color Computer]] || [[Hardy, Harry]] || || 1983-06 || 240 || [[:Category:Communications | COMMUNICATIONS]]
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| [[Database Manager II]] || || || 1983-06 || 242 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Printer spooling will increase your throughput]] || [[Good, Steve]] || || 1983-06 || 246 || [[:Category:Printer | PRINTER]]
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| [[Using the block graphics of the Okidata 82A]] || [[Szlucha, Thomas F]] || || 1983-06 || 250 || [[:Category:Printer | PRINTER]]
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| [[Answer the Question 'what happens if...' ]] || [[Kolar, Joseph]] || || 1983-06 || 255 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
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| [[Supply water to thirsty urbanites with PIPELINE]] || [[Montes, Martin S]] || || 1983-06 || 258 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
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| [[A musical scale generator]] || [[Delbourgo, Robert]] || || 1983-06 || 262 || [[:Category:Music | MUSIC]]
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| [[Rainbug redux]] || [[Downard, Dan]] || || 1983-06 || 264 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
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| [[Function graphing module]] || || || 1983-07 || 16 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[ROM calls the easy way]] || [[Roslund, Charles J]] || || 1983-07 || 18 || [[:Category:Assembly language | ASSEMBLY]]
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| [[Introduction to data communications]] || || || 1983-07 || 24 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Fascinating fractals: Geometry of nature]] || [[Delbourgo, Robert]] || || 1983-07 || 28 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
|-
| [[The secrets of successful software submissions]] || [[Nelson, Tom]] || || 1983-07 || 36 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
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| [[Home money manager]] || || || 1983-07 || 42 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Scramble]] || || || 1983-07 || 43 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Minidos: Two ring circus for CoCo]] || [[Preble, Laurence D]] || || 1983-07 || 44 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
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| [[Home interest calculator]] || || || 1983-07 || 50 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Here's a 120 frame 'graphics pad' for easy animation]] || [[Bain, Scott L]] || || 1983-07 || 53 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
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| [[Summarize income and expenses with home budget analysis]] || [[Ray, J. D]] || || 1983-07 || 60 || [[:Category:Home/hobby | HOME/HOBBY ]]
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| [[EPROM programmer]] || || || 1983-07 || 70 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Disk operator reveals powerful new routines]] || [[Schrag, Roger]] || || 1983-07 || 71 || [[:Category:Disk | DISK]]
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| [[CoCo accountant]] || || || 1983-07 || 82 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Dots: A change of pace from outer space]] || [[Phillips, Daniel W]] || || 1983-07 || 83 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
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| [[Baseball statistics made easy]] || [[Carson, Edward R]] || || 1983-07 || 92 || [[:Category:Home/hobby | HOME/HOBBY ]]
|-
| [[Build this board foreasy interfacing]] || [[Meixsell, Dennis]] || || 1983-07 || 106 || [[:Category:Utility-hardware | UTILITY-HARD]]
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| [[Qsort for the TRS-80 Color Computer]] || [[Stearman, Colin J]] || || 1983-07 || 112 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
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| [[RAINBOWfest report]] || [[Reed, Jim]] || || 1983-07 || 122 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
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| [[Whatzit? Its a scrambled word game]] || [[Smith, Randall]] || || 1983-07 || 124 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
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| [[Learning to create forms of substance]] || [[Blyn, Steve]] || || 1983-07 || 130 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
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| [[Snail's revenge]] || [[Scerbo, Fred B]] || || 1983-07 || 138 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
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| [[Celebrating our 2nd 'record' year]] || || || 1983-07 || 146 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
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| [[Learning through program dissection]] || [[Kolar, Joseph]] || || 1983-07 || 148 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
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| [[Getting more from the disk directory]] || [[Hefter, Melvin]] || || 1983-07 || 152 || [[:Category:Disk | DISK]]
|-
| [[Grafplot]] || || || 1983-07 || 158 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Wrapping up our communications word processor]] || [[White, Richard A]] || || 1983-07 || 163 || [[:Category:Communications | COMMUNICATIONS]]
|-
| [[A special look at a new PoCo CoCo]] || || || 1983-07 || 164 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
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| [[Datamail]] || || || 1983-07 || 166 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Fraction math quiz]] || || || 1983-07 || 167 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Using graphics: Circles and arcs]] || [[Inman, Don]] || || 1983-07 || 168 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
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| [[Build a T adapter for your disk controller]] || [[DiStefano, Tony]] || || 1983-07 || 176 || [[:Category:Disk | DISK]]
|-
| [[Ready for combat? Draw your crossbow]] || [[Nolan, Bill]] || || 1983-07 || 178 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
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| [[Doin' the hi-res shuffle]] || [[Beistel, Phillip]] || || 1983-07 || 196 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
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| [[Stock option strategies]] || || || 1983-07 || 201 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Memory: Brain strain with schmaltz]] || [[Schimdt, Jim]] || || 1983-07 || 202 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
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| [[Work station on wheels]] || [[Giovanoni, Richard]] || || 1983-07 || 218 || [[:Category:Home/hobby | HOME/HOBBY ]]
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| [[Dungeons of Daggorath]] || || || 1983-07 || 220 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Fastape]] || || || 1983-07 || 221 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Morocco Gran Prix]] || || || 1983-07 || 222 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Planet invasion]] || || || 1983-07 || 223 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Understanding probability will improve your odds]] || [[Nielsen, Linda]] || || 1983-07 || 226 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
|-
| [[Filmastr]] || || || 1983-07 || 231 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Alcatraz II]] || || || 1983-07 || 232 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[The Frog]] || || || 1983-07 || 233 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Robottack]] || || || 1983-07 || 233 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Rainbug III]] || [[Downard, Dan]] || || 1983-07 || 234 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
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| [[Spectral Flexplus]] || || || 1983-07 || 240 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[FHL Flex]] || || || 1983-07 || 240 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Data-comp Flex]] || || || 1983-07 || 240 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Expanding your character file programs]] || [[Albrecht, Bob ; and Firedrake, George]] || || 1983-07 || 248 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[Color Computer memory map]] || [[Russell, Bob]] || || 1983-07 || 254 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
|-
| [[Printout at PMODE4]] || [[Kohn, Joseph]] || || 1983-07 || 262 || [[:Category:Printer | PRINTER]]
|-
| [[A cheap talker for out CoCo]] || [[Kelty, John R]] || || 1983-07 || 275 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
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| [[64K disk utilities]] || || || 1983-07 || 284 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Greetings from Uncle Bert]] || [[Peterson, Dale]] || || 1983-07 || 285 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
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| [[Two years of Rainbow]] || [[Foster, Leslie A]] || || 1983-07 || 290 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
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| [[TRS-80 Programmer's Sourcebook]] || || || 1983-07 || 297 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[McCoCo's menu]] || || || 1983-07 || 300 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Dollars and sense]] || || || 1983-07 || 300 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Moneypak]] || || || 1983-07 || 300 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[A challenge for psychics and sleuths]] || [[Delbourgo, Robert]] || || 1983-08 || 20 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
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| [[Mathwar]] || || || 1983-08 || 24 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[A moveable feast for the CoCo]] || [[Fauske, Wes]] || || 1983-08 || 28 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
|-
| [[A mixed bag of Basic]] || [[White, Richard A]] || || 1983-08 || 30 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
|-
| [[Racing the clock with trailin' trail]] || [[Hall, Mike]] || || 1983-08 || 35 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
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| [[Talk about your chopped down Ford]] || [[Robbins, Joel]] || || 1983-08 || 50 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[Rainbug IV]] || [[Downard, Dan]] || || 1983-08 || 58 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
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| [[Two for the 10]] || [[Szlucha, Thomas]] || || 1983-08 || 67 || [[:Category:Mc10 micro color computer | MC-10]]
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| [[Fromtetrato icosahedron, let the good times roll]] || [[Albrecht, Bob; and Firedrake, George]] || || 1983-08 || 74 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
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| [[Lines]] || [[Seay, Walter]] || || 1983-08 || 80 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
|-
| [[End those sticky relay blues]] || [[Becker, Barry E]] || || 1983-08 || 81 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
|-
| [[Home power control part 4: keep your home on schedule]] || [[Trevor, Alexander B]] || || 1983-08 || 83 || [[:Category:Home/hobby | HOME/HOBBY ]]
|-
| [[Tic-tac-toe]] || || || 1983-08 || 94 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Kodomo-no-go]] || || || 1983-08 || 94 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[El cheapo A/D converter]] || || || 1983-08 || 96 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Try these test patterns on your color monitor]] || [[Dubuc, Mike]] || || 1983-08 || 100 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
|-
| [[What you Get is what you Put]] || [[Inman, Don]] || || 1983-08 || 106 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
|-
| [[Tidying up your text]] || [[Kolar, Joseph]] || || 1983-08 || 116 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
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| [[Bloc head]] || || || 1983-08 || 120 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Treasures of the Enrakian Empire]] || [[Ostrer, Ken]] || || 1983-08 || 122 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
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| [[Strummin' on the or CoCo]] || [[Santee, Charles H]] || || 1983-08 || 130 || [[:Category:Music | MUSIC]]
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| [[Time and money]] || || || 1983-08 || 136 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Turn your computer into a cash register]] || [[Weide, Dennis H]] || || 1983-08 || 138 || [[:Category:Business | BUSINESS]]
|-
| [[Let your computer assist in concept development]] || [[Blyn, Steve]] || || 1983-08 || 152 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
|-
| [[Dynacalc]] || || || 1983-08 || 158 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Color-80]] || || || 1983-08 || 166 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[CoCo board II]] || || || 1983-08 || 169 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Programming the combat system]] || [[Nolan, Bill]] || || 1983-08 || 170 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[Kid CoCo is no lightweight]] || [[Downard, Dan]] || || 1983-08 || 174 || [[:Category:Mc10 micro color computer | MC-10]]
|-
| [[MC-10 microcomputer]] || || || 1983-08 || 174 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Madness and the minotaur]] || || || 1983-08 || 184 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Desert golf]] || || || 1983-08 || 186 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Trapfall]] || || || 1983-08 || 188 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Greetings from Uncle Bert]] || [[Peterson, Dale]] || || 1983-08 || 189 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
|-
| [[Build this parallel printer interface]] || [[DiStefano, Tony]] || || 1983-08 || 192 || [[:Category:Printer | PRINTER]]
|-
| [[Examining some educational uses of the Color Computer]] || [[Plog, Michael]] || || 1983-08 || 194 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
|-
| [[The powerful Qsort routine comes to the Color Computer]] || [[Stearman, Colin J]] || || 1983-08 || 196 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
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| [[Missile barrage]] || [[Remini, Susan]] || || 1983-08 || 218 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[Contract basics for the computer user]] || [[Nelson, Tom]] || || 1983-08 || 226 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
|-
| [[Bumble games]] || || || 1983-08 || 232 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Bumble plot]] || || || 1983-08 || 232 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Strategy football]] || [[Tyson, Robert K]] || || 1983-08 || 234 || [[:Category:Simulation | SIMULATION]]
|-
| [[Color Computer memory map]] || [[Russell, Bob]] || || 1983-08 || 254 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
|-
| [[Elite calc]] || || || 1983-08 || 262 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Nerble force]] || || || 1983-08 || 265 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Upload]] || || || 1983-08 || 266 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Blackjack royale]] || || || 1983-08 || 268 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Electronic calligrapher]] || || || 1983-08 || 270 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Firecopter]] || || || 1983-08 || 272 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Disk money minder]] || || || 1983-08 || 274 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Direct file transfer]] || || || 1983-08 || 276 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Space shuttle]] || || || 1983-08 || 278 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Alter your programs with Revfield]] || [[Gauvreau, Ray]] || || 1983-08 || 282 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
|-
| [[Get cracking]] || [[Hasenstaub, Theodore P]] || || 1983-08 || 290 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[8-ball]] || || || 1983-08 || 294 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Klendathu]] || || || 1983-08 || 295 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[TNT-ALYZ]] || || || 1983-08 || 296 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[CoCo clubs]] || [[Kurowsky, Suzanne]] || || 1983-08 || 302 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
|-
| [[Random lab scheduler: utility for frustrated teachers]] || [[Garrett, Norman]] || || 1983-09 || 18 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
|-
| [[Copyrighting your software part 1]] || [[Nelson, Tom]] || || 1983-09 || 28 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
|-
| [[Spectran]] || || || 1983-09 || 32 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Elements]] || [[Benoit, Gary]] || || 1983-09 || 34 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
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| [[Programming a computer illiterate school]] || [[Blyn, Steve]] || || 1983-09 || 50 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
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| [[Boggle clone demands concentration. ]] || [[Lai, Stephen]] || || 1983-09 || 60 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
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| [[Superpatch for EDTASM]] || [[Schrag, Roger]] || || 1983-09 || 66 || [[:Category:Assembly language | ASSEMBLY]]
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| [[Multi-pak interface]] || || || 1983-09 || 80 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Networking for better software evaluation]] || [[Plog, Michael]] || || 1983-09 || 84 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
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| [[Drawing on this blackboard chalks up programming ease]] || [[Kolar, Joseph]] || || 1983-09 || 88 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
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| [[MC-10 vs. CoCo: a command summary]] || [[Smith, Frank]] || || 1983-09 || 101 || [[:Category:Mc10 micro color computer | MC-10]]
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| [[LCINT]] || || || 1983-09 || 104 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Tape utility]] || || || 1983-09 || 108 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Humbug]] || || || 1983-09 || 110 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[De-mystifying the PclearO]] || [[Krebs, Ron]] || || 1983-09 || 112 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
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| [[The Dragon is coming!]] || [[Rosen, Bob]] || || 1983-09 || 113 || [[:Category:Dragon computer | DRAGON]]
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| [[Music drill]] || || || 1983-09 || 120 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Measuring your inches: not just a fraction of knowledge]] || [[Gray, Thomas]] || || 1983-09 || 122 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
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| [[Time teacher]] || || || 1983-09 || 128 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[If 'program control' then fine else gosub confusion]] || [[White, Richard A]] || || 1983-09 || 130 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
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| [[Vocabulary builder]] || || || 1983-09 || 136 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Match and spell]] || || || 1983-09 || 138 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Using the Color Computer to develop composition topics]] || [[Tchudi, Stephen C]] || || 1983-09 || 139 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
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| [[This quiz could be solution to early math problems]] || [[Bell, Bruce K]] || || 1983-09 || 152 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
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| [[Ninja warrior]] || || || 1983-09 || 156 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Logo, Pilot and computer literacy]] || [[Kheriaty, Larry]] || || 1983-09 || 160 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
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| [[Catacomb]] || || || 1983-09 || 163 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Pick which]] || || || 1983-09 || 164 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Bugger]] || || || 1983-09 || 164 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[El Bandito]] || || || 1983-09 || 168 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Old McDonalds farm vowels]] || || || 1983-09 || 170 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Pipeline (tw6 new Color Computers)]] || || || 1983-09 || 174 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
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| [[Fast lane]] || || || 1983-09 || 177 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Co-Co cooler]] || || || 1983-09 || 178 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Mathmenu]] || || || 1983-09 || 179 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Gl sound generator: software control for complex sounds]] || [[DiStefano, Tony]] || || 1983-09 || 182 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
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| [[Blow by blow account of an emerging combat system]] || [[Nolan, Bill]] || || 1983-09 || 192 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
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| [[Talking speller]] || || || 1983-09 || 199 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Mathfact]] || || || 1983-09 || 200 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Family]] || || || 1983-09 || 204 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Draw something exotic with Vitex93]] || [[Krikorian, Edward]] || || 1983-09 || 206 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
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| [[Hidden Basic 1.0]] || || || 1983-09 || 214 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Original Rags for the CoCo key board]] || [[Urbas, Joseph M]] || || 1983-09 || 218 || [[:Category:Music | MUSIC]]
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| [[Spell-rite]] || || || 1983-09 || 218 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Measure for measure]] || [[Pyne, Jeff]] || || 1983-09 || 226 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
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| [[Grade averaging could be handy teacher's aid]] || [[Luetke, Paul N]] || || 1983-09 || 228 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
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| [[The new 64K CoCo]] || [[Downard, Dan]] || || 1983-09 || 236 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
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| [[Moptown hotel]] || || || 1983-09 || 242 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Beyond words]] || || || 1983-09 || 245 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Phonics I]] || || || 1983-09 || 246 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[VDOS]] || || || 1983-09 || 248 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Let Bibliography file help with that term paper!]] || [[Konecky, Larry]] || || 1983-09 || 252 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
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| [[Greetings from Uncle Bert]] || [[Peterson, Dale]] || || 1983-09 || 268 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
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| [[Color Computer memory map]] || [[Russell, Bob]] || || 1983-09 || 273 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
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| [[Let's clean up that text screen]] || [[Kolar, Joseph]] || || 1983-09 || 278 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
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| [[Sea dragon]] || || || 1983-09 || 282 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Illustrated computer dictionary]] || || || 1983-09 || 284 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Indexer]] || || || 1983-09 || 285 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Household budget worksheet]] || || || 1983-09 || 287 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Number match]] || || || 1983-09 || 288 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Assembly corner: tidying up your word processor program]] || [[Lewandowski, Dennis S]] || || 1983-09 || 291 || [[:Category:Word processing | WORD PROC]]
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| [[Math games that teach]] || || || 1983-09 || 294 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Spelling in context]] || || || 1983-09 || 296 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Paint shop]] || [[Inman, Don]] || || 1983-09 || 298 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
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| [[Rainbug V]] || [[Downard, Dan]] || || 1983-09 || 306 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
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| [[Save storage by packing your data]] || [[Alsop, B. H]] || || 1983-09 || 314 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
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| [[Marathon madness]] || [[Fraysse, John W., Jr]] || || 1983-10 || 18 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
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| [[Hide that disk directory]] || [[Hardy, Harry]] || || 1983-10 || 46 || [[:Category:Disk | DISK]]
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| [[Repainting a Pmode4 rainbow. ]] || [[King, David]] || || 1983-10 || 60 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
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| [[What is computer literacy?]] || [[Plog, Michael]] || || 1983-10 || 66 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
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| [[Space shutter]] || [[Griffin, Jim]] || || 1983-10 || 68 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
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| [[Four for the show]] || [[Hall, Mike]] || || 1983-10 || 77 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
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| [[The simplicity of sinelines]] || [[Cutter, Norm]] || || 1983-10 || 80 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
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| [[Machine language cassette I/O]] || [[Schrag, Roger]] || || 1983-10 || 84 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
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| [[Flags]] || [[Paravati, Joseph S]] || || 1983-10 || 92 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
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| [[Graphics special: the '178' poke]] || [[Hall, Jim]] || || 1983-10 || 102 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
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| [[A personalized certificate can reward young computerists]] || [[Blyn, Steve]] || || 1983-10 || 106 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
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| [[Direct graphic design]] || [[Inman, Don]] || || 1983-10 || 108 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
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| [[Glommer: true graphics for 4K]] || [[Dawson, David]] || || 1983-10 || 122 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
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| [[A hardware hacker cleans house]] || [[DiStef ano, Tony]] || || 1983-10 || 130 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
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| [[Try your hand at color blackjack]] || [[Kohn, Joseph]] || || 1983-10 || 134 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
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| [[Statistics in the classroom: mean and standard deviation]] || [[Peppenhorst, Stan]] || || 1983-10 || 144 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
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| [[Format your video with this worksheet]] || [[Klement, George E]] || || 1983-10 || 148 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
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| [[Development of a new fantasy game]] || [[Nolan, Bill]] || || 1983-10 || 152 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
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| [[Color sketch: a keyboard graphics utility]] || [[Kotcher, Darryl]] || || 1983-10 || 161 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
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| [[The carefully contrived superhero]] || [[Albrecht, Bob]] || || 1983-10 || 170 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
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| [[The power of OS-9]] || [[Puckett, Dale L]] || || 1983-10 || 178 || [[:Category:Os-9 operating system | OS-9]]
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| [[Create your own tutorial]] || [[Kolar, Joseph]] || || 1983-10 || 182 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
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| [[Assembly corner: dabbling with disk]] || [[Lewandowski, Dennis S]] || || 1983-10 || 190 || [[:Category:Disk | DISK]]
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| [[Opening CoCo's library to the MC-10. ]] || [[Downard, Dan]] || || 1983-10 || 196 || [[:Category:Mc10 micro color computer | MC-10]]
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| [[Tumble 'brella]] || [[Delbourgo, Robert ; and Ferguson, Brian]] || || 1983-10 || 204 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
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| [[CMERGEing the easy way]] || [[Mir, Jorge]] || || 1983-10 || 206 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
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| [[The young, the old and Color Logo]] || [[Bardus, Sharon]] || || 1983-10 || 210 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
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| [[Greetings from Uncle Bert]] || [[Peterson, Dale]] || || 1983-10 || 215 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
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| [[On using Print Using]] || [[White, Richard A]] || || 1983-10 || 220 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
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| [[Okidata's ML-92]] || || || 1983-10 || 227 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Color graphics editor]] || || || 1983-10 || 228 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Rainbow writer]] || || || 1983-10 || 230 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[HJL-57 keyboard]] || || || 1983-10 || 234 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Chroma keys]] || || || 1983-10 || 236 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[VDUMP]] || || || 1983-10 || 238 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Statgraf]] || || || 1983-10 || 240 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Adventure in wonderland]] || || || 1983-10 || 241 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Beyond words]] || || || 1983-10 || 242 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Payup and payout]] || || || 1983-10 || 244 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Score-EZ]] || || || 1983-10 || 245 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Amdisk III]] || || || 1983-10 || 246 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Master control II]] || || || 1983-10 || 248 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Motorbike challenge]] || || || 1983-10 || 250 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Mouse]] || || || 1983-10 || 250 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Math adventure]] || || || 1983-10 || 252 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Super screen]] || || || 1983-10 || 254 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Fury]] || || || 1983-10 || 256 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Color monitor]] || || || 1983-10 || 258 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Kaleidophone]] || || || 1983-10 || 260 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[First sampler]] || || || 1983-10 || 262 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[CoCo mail]] || || || 1983-10 || 267 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Wild party]] || || || 1983-10 || 270 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Colorout]] || || || 1983-10 || 271 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Pie zapper]] || || || 1983-10 || 272 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Stereo composer]] || || || 1983-10 || 274 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Program file]] || || || 1983-10 || 276 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Color scribe]] || || || 1983-10 || 278 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Super Color Writer II]] || || || 1983-10 || 280 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Upgrading the Shacks screen print program to 32K]] || [[Dayton, John K]] || || 1983-10 || 290 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
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| [[Copyrighting your software part 2]] || [[Nelson, Tom]] || || 1983-10 || 292 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
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| [[Printing graphic characters on the Microline 82A]] || [[Ericson, Robert W]] || || 1983-10 || 296 || [[:Category:Printer | PRINTER]]
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| [[Pmode4 graphics dump]] || [[Fountain, J. Paul]] || || 1983-10 || 298 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
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| [[Picture your face]] || [[Delbourgo, Dan ; and Delbourgo, Robert]] || || 1983-10 || 306 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
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| [[Using the upper RAM of your 64K]] || [[Mir, Jorge]] || || 1983-10 || 317 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
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| [[Supreme Sysop and magnificent modem monster]] || [[Lester, Lane P]] || || 1983-11 || 20 || [[:Category:Communications | COMMUNICATIONS]]
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| [[Make an appointment for better organization!]] || [[Remini, Susan]] || || 1983-11 || 33 || [[:Category:Home/hobby | HOME/HOBBY ]]
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| [[Master messenger]] || [[Davenport, Alan]] || || 1983-11 || 42 || [[:Category:Communications | COMMUNICATIONS]]
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| [[An automatic phone dialer for Radio Shack's Modem II]] || [[Mir, Jorge]] || || 1983-11 || 53 || [[:Category:Communications | COMMUNICATIONS]]
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| [[The shell game]] || [[Puckett, Dale L]] || || 1983-11 || 58 || [[:Category:Os-9 operating system | OS-9]]
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| [[The results are in., (contest)]] || [[Springer, Charles]] || || 1983-11 || 68 || [[:Category:Simulation | SIMULATION]]
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| [[And the winner is... Election '84]] || [[Tyson, Robert K]] || || 1983-11 || 74 || [[:Category:Simulation | SIMULATION]]
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| [[WarGame]] || [[Weber, Thomas G]] || || 1983-11 || 90 || [[:Category:Simulation | SIMULATION]]
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| [[Changes in the micro revolution]] || [[Plog, Michael]] || || 1983-11 || 115 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
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| [[Remote operation of the Color Computer]] || [[Downard, Dan]] || || 1983-11 || 118 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
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| [[Teach CoCo to dial up some fun]] || [[Manning, Ric]] || || 1983-11 || 122 || [[:Category:Communications | COMMUNICATIONS]]
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| [[How to be a printer artist in one easy lesson]] || [[Himowitz, Michael J]] || || 1983-11 || 126 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
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| [[Design your own champion]] || [[Albrecht, Bob]] || || 1983-11 || 140 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
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| [[Bach to basic]] || [[Pollock, Tommy; and Pollock, Gail]] || || 1983-11 || 152 || [[:Category:Music | MUSIC]]
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| [[Redchase]] || [[Dersheimer, Richard]] || || 1983-11 || 158 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
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| [[Now you can easily generate graphic data statements]] || [[Scerbo, Fred B]] || || 1983-11 || 160 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
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| [[Computer supported combat is no fantasy]] || [[Nolan, Bill]] || || 1983-11 || 168 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
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| [[An introduction to synchronous data transmission]] || [[Hardy, Harry]] || || 1983-11 || 173 || [[:Category:Communications | COMMUNICATIONS]]
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| [[C— language of the 80's]] || [[White, Richard A]] || || 1983-11 || 186 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
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| [[Communicating with your Color Computer]] || [[Rosen, Bob]] || || 1983-11 || 192 || [[:Category:Communications | COMMUNICATIONS]]
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| [[Stringing along with string variables and functions]] || [[White, Richard A]] || || 1983-11 || 198 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
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| [[Custom interface for the Gemini-10]] || [[Hall, William R]] || || 1983-11 || 202 || [[:Category:Printer | PRINTER]]
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| [[How is how]] || [[Portela, Henry]] || || 1983-11 || 204 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
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| [[Copyrighting your software part 3]] || [[Nelson, Tom]] || || 1983-11 || 212 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
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| [[The laserworm and the firefly]] || [[Laake, Josef A]] || || 1983-11 || 220 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
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| [[Build a speaker/amplifier for your computer]] || [[DiStefano, Tony]] || || 1983-11 || 230 || [[:Category:Utility-hardware | UTILITY-HARD]]
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| [[Color finance]] || || || 1983-11 || 238 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Color ink jet printer]] || || || 1983-11 || 242 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Arex]] || || || 1983-11 || 244 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Color term plus]] || || || 1983-11 || 246 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Disasm]] || || || 1983-11 || 248 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Blackjaq]] || || || 1983-11 || 250 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[CC dialer]] || || || 1983-11 || 254 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Label III]] || || || 1983-11 || 255 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Line cross reference]] || || || 1983-11 || 256 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Pigskin predictions]] || || || 1983-11 || 258 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Grand slam ]] || || || 1983-11 || 260 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Fundfile]] || || || 1983-11 || 262 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[That's Interesting]] || || || 1983-11 || 264 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Super Color speller]] || || || 1983-11 || 266 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Remote reset]] || || || 1983-11 || 268 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Atari joysticks]] || || || 1983-11 || 270 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Deprec]] || || || 1983-11 || 272 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[3D tic-tac-toe]] || || || 1983-11 || 272 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[The companion]] || || || 1983-11 || 273 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Amortization]] || || || 1983-11 || 274 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Disk manager]] || || || 1983-11 || 275 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Guardian]] || || || 1983-11 || 277 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Voicepak]] || || || 1983-11 || 278 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Elcircan]] || || || 1983-11 || 280 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Sonar search]] || || || 1983-11 || 281 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Reactoid]] || || || 1983-11 || 282 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Flexi filer]] || || || 1983-11 || 282 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Quicksort]] || || || 1983-11 || 283 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Gorilla monitor]] || || || 1983-11 || 284 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Video plus]] || || || 1983-11 || 284 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Derby]] || || || 1983-11 || 285 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Cosmic clones]] || || || 1983-11 || 286 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Color zap]] || || || 1983-11 || 286 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[The other end of the phone]] || [[Trevor, Alexander B]] || || 1983-11 || 288 || [[:Category:Communications | COMMUNICATIONS]]
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| [[Launch your next trip from X-pad]] || [[Hoffman, Paul S]] || || 1983-11 || 292 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
|-
| [[Install you own disk drive 'on/off indicator]] || [[Ellis, Richard S]] || || 1983-11 || 296 || [[:Category:Utility-hardware | UTILITY-HARD]]
|-
| [[Assembly corner: All's not lost— we've still got fun]] || [[Lewandowski, Dennis S]] || || 1983-11 || 298 || [[:Category:Printer | PRINTER]]
|-
| [[Greetings from Uncle Bert]] || [[Peterson, Dale]] || || 1983-11 || 300 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
|-
| [[Home grown hints and evil eye]] || [[Kolar, Joseph]] || || 1983-11 || 306 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
|-
| [[A better method for washing your disks]] || [[Szlucha, David ; and Szlucha, Thomas]] || || 1983-11 || 308 || [[:Category:Disk | DISK]]
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| [[Can it recite the 'pledge of allegiance?']] || [[Blyn, Steve]] || || 1983-11 || 314 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
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| [[The bulletin boards]] || || || 1983-11 || 325 || [[:Category:Communications | COMMUNICATIONS]]
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| [[Thoughts of a computer widow]] || [[Bish, Charlotte]] || || 1983-11 || 328 || [[:Category:Home/hobby | HOME/HOBBY ]]
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| [[CoCo clubs]] || || || 1983-11 || 330 || [[:Category:Home/hobby | HOME/HOBBY ]]
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| [[Turn your printer into a typesetter with Big Print]] || [[Himowitz, Michael J]] || || 1983-12 || 18 || [[:Category:Printer | PRINTER]]
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| [[A more powerful disk backup utility]] || [[Schrag, Roger]] || || 1983-12 || 28 || [[:Category:Disk | DISK]]
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| [[A little tree-trimming music]] || [[Bananszak, David]] || || 1983-12 || 35 || [[:Category:Music | MUSIC]]
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| [[Are you authorized to use this frequency]] || [[Witham, Burton B]] || || 1983-12 || 40 || [[:Category:Home/hobby | HOME/HOBBY ]]
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| [[Christmas printer mysteries]] || [[Himowitz, Michael J. ; and Nelson, Julius]] || || 1983-12 || 54 || [[:Category:Printer | PRINTER]]
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| [[Unlock your joyports and open CoCo to the world]] || [[Weston, Dane]] || || 1983-12 || 56 || [[:Category:Utility-hardware | UTILITY-HARD]]
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| [[Disksort]] || [[Stephens, Matt]] || || 1983-12 || 64 || [[:Category:Disk | DISK]]
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| [[Use CoCo to help communicate those Christmas Greetings]] || [[Hady, Tom]] || || 1983-12 || 68 || [[:Category:Home/hobby | HOME/HOBBY ]]
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| [[Animation using the X-pad for graphics production]] || [[Ford, James H., Jr]] || || 1983-12 || 74 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
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| [[Let's get trivial]] || [[Tapanila, Glen R]] || || 1983-12 || 89 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
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| [[Flaunt your CoCo with season's greetings cards]] || [[Kolar, Joseph]] || || 1983-12 || 98 || [[:Category:Printer | PRINTER]]
|-
| [[Understanding cassette and disk file operations]] || [[White, Richard A]] || || 1983-12 || 112 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
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| [[Install your own ROM switcher]] || [[DiStefano, Tony]] || || 1983-12 || 122 || [[:Category:Utility-hardware | UTILITY-HARD]]
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| [[Fast, fun and educational — that's speedmath]] || [[Gray, Thomas]] || || 1983-12 || 124 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
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| [[The CoCo composer]] || [[Konecky, Larry]] || || 1983-12 || 131 || [[:Category:Music | MUSIC]]
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| [[Debugging can be fun]] || [[Kolar, Joseph]] || || 1983-12 || 138 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
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| [[Greetings from Uncle Bert]] || [[Peterson, Dale]] || || 1983-12 || 143 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
|-
| [[Enter the Dragon]] || [[Scerbo, Fred B]] || || 1983-12 || 153 || [[:Category:Dragon computer | DRAGON]]
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| [[A face saving addressor for Fred]] || [[Hughes, Don ; and James, Jessie]] || || 1983-12 || 160 || [[:Category:Home/hobby | HOME/HOBBY ]]
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| [[Keeping track with quick find]] || [[Selig, Paul]] || || 1983-12 || 162 || [[:Category:Disk | DISK]]
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| [[Putting a little history in yourfuture]] || [[Plog, Michael]] || || 1983-12 || 166 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
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| [[A super organizer for your tape files]] || [[Meuse, Richard T]] || || 1983-12 || 169 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
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| [[The high adventure of para-jumper]] || [[Pollock, Ward]] || || 1983-12 || 176 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
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| [[The demystification of ML on disk]] || [[Davidson, Kevin]] || || 1983-12 || 180 || [[:Category:Disk | DISK]]
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| [[How fast is your CoCo?]] || [[Downard, Dan]] || || 1983-12 || 182 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
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| [[Happy graphic holidays]] || [[Inman, Don]] || || 1983-12 || 188 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
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| [[Script provides remedial help in reading and spelling]] || [[Plaxton, John]] || || 1983-12 || 194 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
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| [[Menu maker]] || [[Mir, Jorge]] || || 1983-12 || 200 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
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| [[Build an RS232 device select switch for under $20]] || [[Owen, David]] || || 1983-12 || 202 || [[:Category:Utility-hardware | UTILITY-HARD]]
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| [[Merry Christmas to all and to all a good-bye]] || [[Mauro, Robert]] || || 1983-12 || 205 || [[:Category:Music | MUSIC]]
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| [[Interface a calculator keyboard to the PIA]] || [[Meixsell, Dennis]] || || 1983-12 || 207 || [[:Category:Utility-hardware | UTILITY-HARD]]
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| [[A Hanukkah gift for you]] || [[Snyder, Stephanie ; and Snyder, Bill]] || || 1983-12 || 212 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
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| [[Lazy man's disk directory]] || [[Delperdang, Ralph]] || || 1983-12 || 216 || [[:Category:Disk | DISK]]
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| [[Copyrighting your software part 4]] || [[Nelson, Tom]] || || 1983-12 || 220 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
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| [[Details of a magic system (and a monster contest)]] || [[Nolan, Bill]] || || 1983-12 || 228 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
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| [[Draw-it]] || || || 1983-12 || 239 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Gomoku/renju]] || || || 1983-12 || 240 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Transtar-315 color printer]] || || || 1983-12 || 242 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Sav-a-byte]] || || || 1983-12 || 243 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Adventures]] || || || 1983-12 || 244 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Dskldr]] || || || 1983-12 || 246 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Bio-detector]] || || || 1983-12 || 248 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Bumpers]] || || || 1983-12 || 249 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[C-trek]] || || || 1983-12 || 250 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Pritty printer]] || || || 1983-12 || 252 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Data 500]] || || || 1983-12 || 254 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Flash cards]] || || || 1983-12 || 255 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Mailing list]] || || || 1983-12 || 256 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Federation boot camp]] || || || 1983-12 || 258 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Alphabet]] || || || 1983-12 || 259 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[2fer]] || || || 1983-12 || 260 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Lowrcase]] || || || 1983-12 || 262 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Ccads]] || || || 1983-12 || 264 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Statement writer]] || || || 1983-12 || 266 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[CC-dbm/lw]] || || || 1983-12 || 268 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[C compiler]] || || || 1983-12 || 270 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Disk graphics]] || || || 1983-12 || 272 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Colorspeak]] || || || 1983-12 || 280 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Articulator]] || || || 1983-12 || 282 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Wizard 64]] || || || 1983-12 || 284 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Jude]] || || || 1983-12 || 286 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Video clear interface]] || || || 1983-12 || 288 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Intbasic]] || || || 1983-12 || 290 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Avoiding the avalanche with teacher's aid]] || [[Blyn, Steve]] || || 1983-12 || 294 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
|-
| [[From hi-resto high style... coming to life with OS-9]] || [[Puckett, Dale L]] || || 1983-12 || 298 || [[:Category:Os-9 operating system | OS-9]]
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| [[Joe journalist interviews a Dragon]] || [[Liddil, Bob]] || || 1983-12 || 312 || [[:Category:Dragon computer | DRAGON]]
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| [[Polygons? Gollygons!]] || [[Odlin, R. W]] || || 1983-12 || 318 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
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| [[Color Computer memory map]] || [[Russell, Bob]] || || 1983-12 || 322 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
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| [[RAINBOWfest report]] || [[Reed, Jim]] || || 1984-01 || 18 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
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| [[The Tandy home computers tour]] || [[Reed, Jim]] || || 1984-01 || 22 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
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| [[Genius at work]] || [[Wilson, David C]] || || 1984-01 || 24 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
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| [[Hi, there! I'm your friendly acey deucey dealer]] || [[Furman, Barry R]] || || 1984-01 || 26 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
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| [[The benefits of role playing are no fantasy]] || [[Nolan, Bill]] || || 1984-01 || 34 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
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| [[The limousine utility: a tape to disk transfer vehicle]] || [[Schrag, Roger]] || || 1984-01 || 48 || [[:Category:Disk | DISK]]
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| [[Getting started with machine language]] || [[Downard, Dan]] || || 1984-01 || 56 || [[:Category:Assembly language | ASSEMBLY]]
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| [[For that added touch, you need Append]] || [[Kolar, Joseph]] || || 1984-01 || 62 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
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| [[Of what value are traditional skills in a rapidly changing culture?]] || [[Plog, Michael]] || || 1984-01 || 68 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
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| [[Losing this action 'Pac-ed' game is a real 'pill.']] || [[Montes, Martin S]] || || 1984-01 || 70 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[A bigger byte for basic (extra 8K for 64K)]] || [[Gauvreau, Ray]] || || 1984-01 || 74 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
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| [[Color-eyed-o-scope]] || [[Touchstone, Terrell]] || || 1984-01 || 80 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
|-
| [[The wizard's computer: a graphic tale]] || [[Sligar, David S]] || || 1984-01 || 84 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
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| [[Reviving a nearly lost art with 'little letter writer]] || [[Blyn, Steve]] || || 1984-01 || 87 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
|-
| [[Face to face to face to face]] || [[Kozubal, John W]] || || 1984-01 || 89 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
|-
| [[A most moving message]] || [[Boyarsky, Oleg]] || || 1984-01 || 96 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
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| [[Here's the answer but what was the question?]] || [[Dersheimer, Richard]] || || 1984-01 || 98 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
|-
| [[Let CoCo Type help you tighten up that typing]] || [[Hyre, Leonard]] || || 1984-01 || 106 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
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| [[A beginner's guide to cassette files]] || [[Albrecht, Bob]] || || 1984-01 || 110 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
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| [[The memory game]] || [[Popovich, Michael]] || || 1984-01 || 116 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
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| [[The CGP-115 printer: a considerable upgrade]] || [[Szlucha, Thomas]] || || 1984-01 || 120 || [[:Category:Printer | PRINTER]]
|-
| [[Visible check register]] || [[Brooks, Sid]] || || 1984-01 || 124 || [[:Category:Home/hobby | HOME/HOBBY ]]
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| [[Upgrading your Color Computer 2]] || [[DiStefano, Tony]] || || 1984-01 || 130 || [[:Category:Utility-hardware | UTILITY-HARD]]
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| [[Nostalgia, notes and tools of the trade]] || [[Puckett, Dale L]] || || 1984-01 || 132 || [[:Category:Os-9 operating system | OS-9]]
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| [[Try this helpful number-base conversion quiz]] || [[Davis, Gary A. ; and Davis, Susan]] || || 1984-01 || 140 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
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| [[Printer mystery]] || [[Himowitz, Michael J. : and Nelson, Julius]] || || 1984-01 || 144 || [[:Category:Printer | PRINTER]]
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| [[Csave your programs with confidence]] || [[Mir, Jorge]] || || 1984-01 || 146 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
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| [[Holiday greetings]] || [[Vasconi, Eugene]] || || 1984-01 || 150 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
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| [[Prompted graphics program]] || [[Inman, Don]] || || 1984-01 || 152 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
|-
| [[Gone fishing]] || [[Matice, Norman]] || || 1984-01 || 158 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[What are those device numbers for?]] || [[Dollberg, Donald D]] || || 1984-01 || 163 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
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| [[The right to know: it's also an obligation]] || [[Nelson, Tom]] || || 1984-01 || 166 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
|-
| [[Spell out your error messages]] || [[Smrcina, Richard]] || || 1984-01 || 169 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
|-
| [[No treads on me, please!]] || [[Ritchie, Gary]] || || 1984-01 || 173 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[Monitor mod for your CoCo]] || [[Kottke, Richard]] || || 1984-01 || 179 || [[:Category:Utility-hardware | UTILITY-HARD]]
|-
| [[Puzzle sticks and picture maker]] || [[Lai, Stephen]] || || 1984-01 || 184 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
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| [[Pie graph supreme]] || [[Clements, Dave]] || || 1984-01 || 189 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
|-
| [[Twenty odd-ball screen routines]] || [[Clark, Gregory]] || || 1984-01 || 202 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[Four for fun]] || [[Myers, Paul Wesley]] || || 1984-01 || 210 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
|-
| [[Welcome to Basic]] || [[White, Richard A]] || || 1984-01 || 215 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
|-
| [[The magic software machine]] || [[Liddil, Bob]] || || 1984-01 || 218 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
|-
| [[Assembly corner: those 'strange-looking' listings]] || [[Lewandowski, Dennis S]] || || 1984-01 || 222 || [[:Category:Assembly language | ASSEMBLY]]
|-
| [[Programmers toolkit]] || || || 1984-01 || 228 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[VIP terminal]] || || || 1984-01 || 229 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Panic button]] || || || 1984-01 || 230 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[F-16 flight simulator]] || || || 1984-01 || 232 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Snoopy and the Red Baron]] || || || 1984-01 || 234 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Fembot's revenge]] || || || 1984-01 || 237 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Junior's revenge]] || || || 1984-01 || 240 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[The Light Pen]] || || || 1984-01 || 242 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Rainbow's corner]] || || || 1984-01 || 246 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Stellar search]] || || || 1984-01 || 251 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Cassette controller]] || || || 1984-01 || 252 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Peanut butter panic]] || || || 1984-01 || 254 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Bomber command]] || || || 1984-01 || 256 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Flash cards]] || || || 1984-01 || 258 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Airline]] || || || 1984-01 || 260 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Jail]] || || || 1984-01 || 261 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Isle of fortune]] || || || 1984-01 || 262 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Dragonfly fan]] || || || 1984-01 || 264 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Glaxxons]] || || || 1984-01 || 265 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Mastermail]] || || || 1984-01 || 266 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Dyfin]] || || || 1984-01 || 268 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Data doctor]] || || || 1984-01 || 270 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Money manager]] || || || 1984-01 || 272 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Balloon attack]] || || || 1984-01 || 274 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Guess the animal]] || || || 1984-01 || 276 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Body parts]] || || || 1984-01 || 276 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Buzzard bait]] || || || 1984-01 || 278 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Early games]] || || || 1984-01 || 280 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Schematicdrafting processor]] || || || 1984-01 || 282 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Command stream processor]] || || || 1984-01 || 286 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Comp-u-trace]] || || || 1984-01 || 287 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Prereader]] || || || 1984-01 || 288 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Color software workbench]] || || || 1984-01 || 290 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Zeus]] || || || 1984-01 || 294 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[SPLC-1 ]] || || || 1984-01 || 296 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Greetings from Uncle Bert]] || [[Peterson, Dale]] || || 1984-01 || 302 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
|-
| [[MC-10 memory map. ]] || [[Curtis, H. Allen]] || || 1984-01 || 309 || [[:Category:Mc10 micro color computer | MC-10]]
|-
| [[Rainbow check plus for the CoCo and the MC-10]] || [[Curtis, H. Allen]] || || 1984-02 || 21 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
|-
| [[Printer baud rates]] || || || 1984-02 || 24 || [[:Category:Printer | PRINTER]]
|-
| [[The crown of Merro]] || [[Craig, Jeff]] || || 1984-02 || 27 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[Creating the well-blended adventure]] || [[Tilenius, Eric W]] || || 1984-02 || 34 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[Keys to creating winning adventures]] || [[Liddil, Bob]] || || 1984-02 || 52 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[A menu is helpful for choosing the right course]] || [[Inman, Don]] || || 1984-02 || 54 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
|-
| [[One graphics screen is worth a thousand alphanumeric characters]] || [[Blyn, Steve]] || || 1984-02 || 60 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
|-
| [[Microcomputers: bigger isn't always better]] || [[Plog, Michael]] || || 1984-02 || 62 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
|-
| [[A most dangerous mission]] || [[Nannen, Jason]] || || 1984-02 || 64 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[The CoCo open]] || [[Knolhoff, Mike]] || || 1984-02 || 68 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[All in the family tree]] || [[Seaberg, Richard]] || || 1984-02 || 78 || [[:Category:Home/hobby | HOME/HOBBY ]]
|-
| [[A Valentine printer mystery]] || [[Himowitz, Michael J]] || || 1984-02 || 88 || [[:Category:Printer | PRINTER]]
|-
| [[The amazing adventures of Karrak]] || [[Clark, Gregory]] || || 1984-02 || 91 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[A winter wonderland]] || [[Shemo, Andrew L]] || || 1984-02 || 120 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
|-
| [[Eight steps to writing solid software documentation]] || [[Tyson, Robert K]] || || 1984-02 || 130 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
|-
| [[A joyful family experience]] || [[Saito, Fran ; and Albrecht, Bob]] || || 1984-02 || 132 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
|-
| [[Net results (basketball statistics]] || [[White, Richard A]] || || 1984-02 || 140 || [[:Category:Home/hobby | HOME/HOBBY ]]
|-
| [[What's bothering you about Basic?]] || [[White, Richard A]] || || 1984-02 || 150 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
|-
| [[Basketball]] || [[Carter, Gary L]] || || 1984-02 || 161 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[A complete character generator]] || [[Nolan, Bill]] || || 1984-02 || 178 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[Cheapstick — a smooth, rugged joystick for less than $10]] || [[German, J. D]] || || 1984-02 || 186 || [[:Category:Utility-hardware | UTILITY-HARD]]
|-
| [[Multiply your efforts with this keyboard shorthand]] || [[Schrag, Roger]] || || 1984-02 || 188 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
|-
| [[An introduction to the science of image processing]] || [[Tyson, Robert K]] || || 1984-02 || 196 || [[:Category:Home/hobby | HOME/HOBBY ]]
|-
| [[Adventuring with style]] || [[Liddil, Bob]] || || 1984-02 || 205 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[Valhalla]] || || || 1984-02 || 214 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Dyterm]] || || || 1984-02 || 216 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Ice master]] || || || 1984-02 || 217 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[DDH directory-file builder]] || || || 1984-02 || 220 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[VC]] || || || 1984-02 || 221 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Roman numerals]] || || || 1984-02 || 222 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Battle]] || || || 1984-02 || 222 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Byte bat]] || || || 1984-02 || 224 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Teee offf]] || || || 1984-02 || 227 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Color tutor]] || || || 1984-02 || 228 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Mansion of doom]] || || || 1984-02 || 230 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[MM-100 Manual Mini Modem]] || || || 1984-02 || 232 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Screen reference card]] || || || 1984-02 || 234 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[The great hamster hunt]] || || || 1984-02 || 236 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Micronix premium keyboard. ]] || || || 1984-02 || 238 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Banners banners banners]] || || || 1984-02 || 240 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Time patrol]] || || || 1984-02 || 242 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Adventure starter package]] || || || 1984-02 || 242 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Euchre]] || || || 1984-02 || 244 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Pager/64K boot]] || || || 1984-02 || 245 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Complete personal accountant]] || || || 1984-02 || 246 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Mt. Doom]] || || || 1984-02 || 250 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Diskey disk access and repair key]] || || || 1984-02 || 251 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Clock drill]] || || || 1984-02 || 252 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Order entry system]] || || || 1984-02 || 254 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Cashman]] || || || 1984-02 || 256 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Key-264K]] || || || 1984-02 || 260 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Rubiconll]] || || || 1984-02 || 264 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Face]] || || || 1984-02 || 265 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Cookie Monster's letter crunch]] || || || 1984-02 || 266 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Kron]] || || || 1984-02 || 270 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Gorilla Banana GX-100 printer]] || || || 1984-02 || 272 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Jowst]] || || || 1984-02 || 276 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[FICA-83]] || || || 1984-02 || 278 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Assembly corner: problems?]] || [[Lewandowski, Dennis S]] || || 1984-02 || 281 || [[:Category:Assembly language | ASSEMBLY]]
|-
| [[When a graphic idea strikes..]] || [[Kolar, Joseph]] || || 1984-02 || 284 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
|-
| [[CoCo community]] || || || 1984-02 || 290 || [[:Category:Home/hobby | HOME/HOBBY ]]
|-
| [[Inputting your role playing characters]] || [[Albrecht, Bob ; and Firedrake, George]] || || 1984-02 || 292 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[What is your compatibility rating?]] || [[Clift, Simon]] || || 1984-02 || 292 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[Greetings from Uncle Bert]] || [[Peterson, Dale]] || || 1984-02 || 300 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
|-
| [[A teeny tinydump]] || [[Anthony, Dave]] || || 1984-02 || 306 || [[:Category:Printer | PRINTER]]
|-
| [[Design and development of application software]] || [[Searby, Paul]] || || 1984-02 || 310 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
|-
| [[Prospecting the MC-10]] || [[Curtis, H. Allen]] || || 1984-02 || 314 || [[:Category:Mc10 micro color computer | MC-10]]
|-
| [[OS-9 meets the Wolfbug monitor]] || [[Clements, William C, Jr]] || || 1984-02 || 322 || [[:Category:Os-9 operating system | OS-9]]
|-
| [[Point, counterpoint, terminal problems and a technical potpourri]] || [[Puckett, Dale L]] || || 1984-02 || 324 || [[:Category:Os-9 operating system | OS-9]]
|-
| [[Trouble shooter makes the program pak connection]] || [[DiStefano, Tony]] || || 1984-02 || 330 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
|-
| [[For the CPU of choice: go CoCo]] || [[Hogg, Frank]] || || 1984-02 || 332 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
|-
| [[Markup and profit: two for the money]] || [[Dettman, Harvey]] || || 1984-03 || 20 || [[:Category:Business | BUSINESS]]
|-
| [[Business software and the Color Computer]] || [[Mitchell, Dennis E]] || || 1984-03 || 28 || [[:Category:Business | BUSINESS]]
|-
| [[EDTASM minus?]] || [[Eichstaedt, Pete]] || || 1984-03 || 32 || [[:Category:Assembly language | ASSEMBLY]]
|-
| [[Creating the graphic adventure]] || [[Tilenius, Eric W]] || || 1984-03 || 34 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[The financial analyst]] || [[Carson, Edward R]] || || 1984-03 || 50 || [[:Category:Business | BUSINESS]]
|-
| [[Mining Rainbow gold]] || [[Saito, Fran ; and Albrecht, Bob]] || || 1984-03 || 61 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
|-
| [[Stunt pilot]] || [[Poppe, T. Robert]] || || 1984-03 || 67 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[Up, up and A(merican) way]] || [[Ray, J. D]] || || 1984-03 || 74 || [[:Category:Home/hobby | HOME/HOBBY ]]
|-
| [[The coaches animated playbook]] || [[Scerbo, Fred B]] || || 1984-03 || 82 || [[:Category:Home/hobby | HOME/HOBBY ]]
|-
| [[Costcalc: The Manufacturer's cost accountant]] || [[Hill, Eddie]] || || 1984-03 || 98 || [[:Category:Business | BUSINESS]]
|-
| [[Memory saving techniques for handling data]] || [[White, Richard A]] || || 1984-03 || 111 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
|-
| [[Adding function keys to your keyboard]] || [[DiStefano, Tony]] || || 1984-03 || 117 || [[:Category:Utility-hardware | UTILITY-HARD]]
|-
| [[Killing flies with the friendly tool]] || [[Blyn, Steve]] || || 1984-03 || 121 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
|-
| [[Hardcopy revisited: position independence and a minor debugging]] || [[Lewandowski, Dennis S]] || || 1984-03 || 123 || [[:Category:Assembly language | ASSEMBLY]]
|-
| [[And now, Igor, the envelope, please]] || [[Nolan, Bill]] || || 1984-03 || 125 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[Put your keyboard on the screen]] || [[German, J. D]] || || 1984-03 || 128 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
|-
| [[Converting Micropaintertodisk]] || [[Hoffman, Paul S]] || || 1984-03 || 132 || [[:Category:Disk | DISK]]
|-
| [[Aloysious and the seven characteristics]] || [[Albrecht, Bob ; and Firedrake, George]] || || 1984-03 || 138 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
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| [[Four books from dragonland]] || [[Liddil, Bob]] || || 1984-03 || 143 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
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| [[What a difference some A's make]] || [[Kolar, Joseph]] || || 1984-03 || 149 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
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| [[An FCC fix for EDTASM]] || [[Schrag, Roger]] || || 1984-03 || 156 || [[:Category:Assembly language | ASSEMBLY]]
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| [[Four patches for your new ROM]] || [[Schrag, Roger]] || || 1984-03 || 160 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
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| [[House$]] || [[Giovanoni, Richard]] || || 1984-03 || 162 || [[:Category:Home/hobby | HOME/HOBBY ]]
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| [[A very important man]] || [[Himowitz, Michael J. ; and Nelson, Julius]] || || 1984-03 || 169 || [[:Category:Printer | PRINTER]]
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| [[The little runner]] || [[Husak, Charles]] || || 1984-03 || 170 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
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| [[Using Elite Calc to track automobile expenses]] || [[Steiner, John]] || || 1984-03 || 178 || [[:Category:Home/hobby | HOME/HOBBY ]]
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| [[Computer consortia consolidations]] || [[Plog, Michael]] || || 1984-03 || 185 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
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| [[A dungeon master's character sheet]] || [[Jaworski, John J]] || || 1984-03 || 190 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
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| [[Track down errors with this disk fixer]] || [[Charney, Mark]] || || 1984-03 || 196 || [[:Category:Disk | DISK]]
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| [[Dividing the pie — colorfully]] || [[Inman, Don]] || || 1984-03 || 199 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
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| [[Greetings from Uncle Bert]] || [[Peterson, Dale]] || || 1984-03 || 206 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
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| [[Starting your own computer business]] || [[Nelson, Tom]] || || 1984-03 || 212 || [[:Category:Business | BUSINESS]]
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| [[Planet conquest]] || || || 1984-03 || 222 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Battle of Waterloo]] || || || 1984-03 || 224 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Context clues]] || || || 1984-03 || 225 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Term talk]] || || || 1984-03 || 227 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Spectrum control center]] || || || 1984-03 || 230 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Word search puzzles]] || || || 1984-03 || 232 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[The Great USA]] || || || 1984-03 || 234 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Moptown parade]] || || || 1984-03 || 236 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Galagon]] || || || 1984-03 || 238 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Catalyst]] || || || 1984-03 || 239 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[VT-8302 pilot light]] || || || 1984-03 || 240 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Phonics II]] || || || 1984-03 || 242 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Keyboard beeper cartridge]] || || || 1984-03 || 244 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Tutorcode]] || || || 1984-03 || 246 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Devil assault]] || || || 1984-03 || 247 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Cu-ber]] || || || 1984-03 || 247 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Fast file/big file]] || || || 1984-03 || 248 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Star blaze]] || || || 1984-03 || 250 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Owl's eye pilot light]] || || || 1984-03 || 252 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Keyboard]] || || || 1984-03 || 254 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[HyperZone]] || || || 1984-03 || 256 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Scavenge hunt]] || || || 1984-03 || 256 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Stockbroker]] || || || 1984-03 || 258 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Pageplus]] || || || 1984-03 || 259 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Elite-word]] || || || 1984-03 || 260 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Payroll]] || || || 1984-03 || 266 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Homebase]] || || || 1984-03 || 268 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Time fighter]] || || || 1984-03 || 272 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Baseball]] || || || 1984-03 || 274 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Filebox 16]] || || || 1984-03 || 276 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Musica]] || || || 1984-03 || 278 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Colonial trilogy]] || || || 1984-03 || 280 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Accounts receivable]] || || || 1984-03 || 283 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[One disk is better than two]] || [[Hefter, Melvin]] || || 1984-03 || 291 || [[:Category:Os-9 operating system | OS-9]]
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| [[SAGE and CoCo don't mix — yet]] || [[Hogg, Frank]] || || 1984-03 || 293 || [[:Category:Os-9 operating system | OS-9]]
|-
| [[More answers, new products and a major Basic09 program]] || [[Puckett, Dale L]] || || 1984-03 || 298 || [[:Category:Os-9 operating system | OS-9]]
|-
| [[OS-9 users group president's column]] || [[Puckett, Dale L]] || || 1984-03 || 308 || [[:Category:Os-9 operating system | OS-9]]
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| [[The feasibility of Color Computer based survey research]] || [[Sherrill, Sam]] || || 1984-04 || 20 || [[:Category:Business | BUSINESS]]
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| [[Roulette: going 'round with lady luck]] || [[Schechter, Gerry]] || || 1984-04 || 25 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
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| [[The icing on the cake]] || [[Tilenius, Eric W]] || || 1984-04 || 34 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[Finding areas and perimeters in hires]] || [[Blyn, Steve]] || || 1984-04 || 43 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
|-
| [[The screen quizzer]] || [[Scerbo, Fred B]] || || 1984-04 || 52 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
|-
| [[Gaining sophistication with printing techniques]] || [[White, Richard A]] || || 1984-04 || 64 || [[:Category:Printer | PRINTER]]
|-
| [[Craps. ..as it's played at the CoCo casino]] || [[Drouillard, Dan]] || || 1984-04 || 67 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[A day at the races]] || [[Bodiroga, George]] || || 1984-04 || 82 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
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| [[Simply load and. ..Bingo! Instant fun]] || [[Hadley, Joe]] || || 1984-04 || 89 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
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| [[Try your hand at blackjack]] || [[Kincade, Steve]] || || 1984-04 || 97 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[The mysterious and unpredictable RND]] || [[Albrecht, Bob ; and Firedrake, George]] || || 1984-04 || 115 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[Memscan — a utility for the memory explorer]] || [[Reinhart, Alan V]] || || 1984-04 || 119 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
|-
| [[Education outside the school]] || [[Plog, Michael]] || || 1984-04 || 129 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
|-
| [[The home slot machine]] || [[Furman, Barry R]] || || 1984-04 || 131 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[Spinning fortune's wheel]] || [[Schneider, Harold]] || || 1984-04 || 138 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[A 12-volt power supply for the CoCo2]] || [[DiStefano, Tony]] || || 1984-04 || 149 || [[:Category:Utility-hardware | UTILITY-HARD]]
|-
| [[Starting your own computer business — the first step]] || [[Nelson, Tom]] || || 1984-04 || 156 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
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| [[Through ancient caves we wended]] || [[Saito, Fran ; and Albrecht, Bob]] || || 1984-04 || 162 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
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| [[Little E does big job to Basic]] || [[Curtis, H. Allen]] || || 1984-04 || 170 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
|-
| [[Program appending for fun and profit]] || [[Kolar, Joseph]] || || 1984-04 || 182 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
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| [[MoCalc — MiniCalc gets a big brother]] || [[Spencer, Barry]] || || 1984-04 || 186 || [[:Category:Home/hobby | HOME/HOBBY ]]
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| [[Place your bet!]] || [[Hall, Kenneth]] || || 1984-04 || 195 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
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| [[Greetings from Uncle Bert]] || [[Peterson, Dale]] || || 1984-04 || 202 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
|-
| [[The beginning game]] || [[Inman, Don]] || || 1984-04 || 210 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
|-
| [[Women and the Color Computer]] || [[Davis, Susan P]] || || 1984-04 || 215 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
|-
| [[MagiGraph]] || || || 1984-04 || 222 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Graphicom]] || || || 1984-04 || 225 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[JFD-COCO disk system]] || || || 1984-04 || 230 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Colortac]] || || || 1984-04 || 236 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Microdis]] || || || 1984-04 || 238 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Harness/Thoroughbred handicapper]] || || || 1984-04 || 240 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Investigations in integral calculus]] || || || 1984-04 || 242 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Color designer]] || || || 1984-04 || 245 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Calixto Island]] || || || 1984-04 || 246 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Air traffic controller]] || || || 1984-04 || 247 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Cubix]] || || || 1984-04 || 248 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Recall]] || || || 1984-04 || 251 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Screen machine]] || || || 1984-04 || 252 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Mudpies!]] || || || 1984-04 || 253 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Q-Man]] || || || 1984-04 || 254 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Your Color Computer (book)]] || || || 1984-04 || 254 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Starblazer]] || || || 1984-04 || 256 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Skip counting]] || || || 1984-04 || 257 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Three game pack no. 2]] || || || 1984-04 || 258 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[The answer]] || || || 1984-04 || 260 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[More business]] || || || 1984-04 || 262 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Programmer's worksheet]] || || || 1984-04 || 264 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Return of the Jet-I]] || || || 1984-04 || 266 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
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| [[Newerror]] || || || 1984-04 || 268 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Decision maker]] || || || 1984-04 || 270 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Ockywoky]] || || || 1984-04 || 272 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Finance-5]] || || || 1984-04 || 274 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[The spooler]] || || || 1984-04 || 274 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Kingshield]] || || || 1984-04 || 278 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Oracle II]] || || || 1984-04 || 280 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Oik Disk Extended Color Basic]] || || || 1984-04 || 282 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Color compiler]] || || || 1984-04 || 286 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Tic-tac-toe math]] || || || 1984-04 || 290 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Design and development of application software part 2]] || [[Searby, Paul]] || || 1984-04 || 298 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
|-
| [[News, explanations and a checkbook balancing act]] || [[Puckett, Dale L]] || || 1984-04 || 306 || [[:Category:Os-9 operating system | OS-9]]
|-
| [[OS-9 users group president's column]] || [[Puckett, Dale L]] || || 1984-04 || 317 || [[:Category:Os-9 operating system | OS-9]]
|-
| [[A little printer magic]] || [[Weide, Dennis H]] || || 1984-05 || 18 || [[:Category:Printer | PRINTER]]
|-
| [[Make the Good Spooler better]] || [[Swanson, Damon]] || || 1984-05 || 23 || [[:Category:Printer | PRINTER]]
|-
| [[RAINBOWfest report]] || [[Reed, Jim]] || || 1984-05 || 26 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
|-
| [[In pursuit of Captain 'Hook.' A report on the piracy seminar at Rainbowfest-Long Beach]] || [[Nolan, Bill]] || || 1984-05 || 29 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
|-
| [[Marrying machine language to Basic]] || [[White, Richard A]] || || 1984-05 || 31 || [[:Category:Assembly language | ASSEMBLY]]
|-
| [[A change of address]] || [[Derringer, Dennis]] || || 1984-05 || 38 || [[:Category:Disk | DISK]]
|-
| [[Color graphic banner]] || [[Lindsay, Doug]] || || 1984-05 || 41 || [[:Category:Printer | PRINTER]]
|-
| [[RAM/ROM upgrade roundup]] || [[Ellers, Ed]] || || 1984-05 || 49 || [[:Category:Utility-hardware | UTILITY-HARD]]
|-
| [[Out of diversity, an evolving curriculum]] || [[Plog, Michael]] || || 1984-05 || 52 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
|-
| [[Revival (cleaning Gemini-10)]] || [[Becker, Barry E]] || || 1984-05 || 54 || [[:Category:Printer | PRINTER]]
|-
| [[Watching important program evaluators — the children]] || [[Saito, Fran; and Albrecht, Bob]] || || 1984-05 || 60 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
|-
| [[Boltype: a tutorial on the use of dot graphics]] || [[Fahy, Mike]] || || 1984-05 || 67 || [[:Category:Printer | PRINTER]]
|-
| [[The mail mover]] || [[Thonen, Charles M]] || || 1984-05 || 74 || [[:Category:Home/hobby | HOME/HOBBY ]]
|-
| [[Fred's postcard whacker]] || [[Hughes, Don ; and James, Jessie]] || || 1984-05 || 84 || [[:Category:Home/hobby | HOME/HOBBY ]]
|-
| [[The first CoCo rockiest]] || [[Scerbo, Fred B]] || || 1984-05 || 89 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
|-
| [[Creating random name files]] || [[Albrecht, Bob ; and Firedrake, George]] || || 1984-05 || 113 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[This one's a piece of cake]] || [[Kolar, Joseph]] || || 1984-05 || 116 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
|-
| [[CoCo widows]] || [[Davis, Susan P]] || || 1984-05 || 119 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
|-
| [[Looking at Logo from Basic]] || [[Inman, Don]] || || 1984-05 || 125 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
|-
| [[Shuttle graphic]] || [[Kawa, Jeff]] || || 1984-05 || 131 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
|-
| [[Special delivery]] || [[Szlucha, Thomas]] || || 1984-05 || 135 || [[:Category:Printer | PRINTER]]
|-
| [[Pretty as a picture with CGP-115]] || [[Szlucha, Thomas]] || || 1984-05 || 137 || [[:Category:Printer | PRINTER]]
|-
| [[A database manager for dragons]] || [[Nolan, Bill]] || || 1984-05 || 142 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[Synchronous output can be useful]] || [[Provost, James]] || || 1984-05 || 149 || [[:Category:Utility-software | UTILITY-SOFT]]
|-
| [[The most professional garage sale in the neighborhood]] || [[Carson, Edward R]] || || 1984-05 || 156 || [[:Category:Home/hobby | HOME/HOBBY ]]
|-
| [[You can bet on wager master]] || [[Hyre, Leonard]] || || 1984-05 || 166 || [[:Category:Home/hobby | HOME/HOBBY ]]
|-
| [[We want our Q-nerd]] || [[Forsha, Jerry D]] || || 1984-05 || 175 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[The first Saturday in May]] || [[Himowitz, Michael J. and Nelson, Julius]] || || 1984-05 || 180 || [[:Category:Printer | PRINTER]]
|-
| [[Greetings from Uncle Bert]] || [[Peterson, Dale]] || || 1984-05 || 185 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
|-
| [[Designing a video monitor output]] || [[DiStefano, Tony]] || || 1984-05 || 188 || [[:Category:Utility-hardware | UTILITY-HARD]]
|-
| [[Swinging with baseball interest can aid educators]] || [[Blyn, Steve]] || || 1984-05 || 190 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
|-
| [[Case of the overblown heist]] || [[Thorsvik, Doug]] || || 1984-05 || 195 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[64 column model l/lll emulator]] || || || 1984-05 || 208 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Decimals]] || || || 1984-05 || 213 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Whole numbers]] || || || 1984-05 || 213 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[The investor]] || || || 1984-05 || 214 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[SAC]] || || || 1984-05 || 216 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Color dictionary]] || || || 1984-05 || 221 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[DRB]] || || || 1984-05 || 222 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Demon seed]] || || || 1984-05 || 224 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[A guide to food contents]] || || || 1984-05 || 228 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Business accounting system]] || || || 1984-05 || 230 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Number-kruncher]] || || || 1984-05 || 232 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Beam rider]] || || || 1984-05 || 234 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Spell-a-tron]] || || || 1984-05 || 236 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Paper tractor]] || || || 1984-05 || 238 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Atom]] || || || 1984-05 || 239 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[The sourcerer]] || || || 1984-05 || 240 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Taxi]] || || || 1984-05 || 243 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Question and answer]] || || || 1984-05 || 244 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Math invasion]] || || || 1984-05 || 246 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Sea quest]] || || || 1984-05 || 247 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Speed reading]] || || || 1984-05 || 247 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Factors tutor]] || || || 1984-05 || 248 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Execcart]] || || || 1984-05 || 250 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Grabber]] || || || 1984-05 || 251 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Atlantis adventure]] || || || 1984-05 || 251 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[The music reader]] || || || 1984-05 || 252 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Before, between and after]] || || || 1984-05 || 254 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Test-aid]] || || || 1984-05 || 258 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Flight from Grindar]] || || || 1984-05 || 260 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[TV graphics editor]] || || || 1984-05 || 262 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Fastdupe]] || || || 1984-05 || 263 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Galactic Taipan]] || || || 1984-05 || 264 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Foodwar]] || || || 1984-05 || 265 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Diskutil]] || || || 1984-05 || 268 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[MDISK]] || || || 1984-05 || 274 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[DSKMON]] || || || 1984-05 || 276 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[CoCo Bingo]] || || || 1984-05 || 278 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[4 mile island]] || || || 1984-05 || 280 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[A primer on printers]] || [[Nelson, Tom]] || || 1984-05 || 288 || [[:Category:Printer | PRINTER]]
|-
| [[Sad news, good news, a successful terminal program and some Basic09 tricks]] || [[Puckett, Dale L]] || || 1984-05 || 297 || [[:Category:Os-9 operating system | OS-9]]
|-
| [[OS-9 users group president's column]] || [[Puckett, Dale L]] || || 1984-05 || 313 || [[:Category:Os-9 operating system | OS-9]]
|-
| [[On OS-9 matters, Frank FLEXes his bias]] || [[Hogg, Frank]] || || 1984-05 || 314 || [[:Category:Os-9 operating system | OS-9]]
|-
| [[The piano tutor]] || [[Martens, Gordon]] || || 1984-06 || 19 || [[:Category:Music | MUSIC]]
|-
| [[Tone row composing]] || [[Konecky, Larry]] || || 1984-06 || 23 || [[:Category:Music | MUSIC]]
|-
| [[RAINBOWfest report]] || [[Reed, Jim]] || || 1984-06 || 26 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
|-
| [[Your very own interior decorator]] || [[Fahlberg, T. A]] || || 1984-06 || 28 || [[:Category:Home/hobby | HOME/HOBBY ]]
|-
| [[Controlling printer and disk: riding two horses]] || [[White, Richard A]] || || 1984-06 || 38 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
|-
| [[Running circles around LOGO]] || [[Inman, Don]] || || 1984-06 || 48 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
|-
| [[Computers in education: projecting the future through research]] || [[Plog, Michael]] || || 1984-06 || 51 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
|-
| [[Visual aids by CoCo]] || [[Dollberg, Donald D]] || || 1984-06 || 53 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
|-
| [[Two for The Composer]] || [[Scoffin, Brad]] || || 1984-06 || 57 || [[:Category:Music | MUSIC]]
|-
| [[Creating a test for the computer widow]] || [[Kolar, Joseph]] || || 1984-06 || 58 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
|-
| [[This guitar tutor doesn't fret]] || [[Phillips, Chris]] || || 1984-06 || 62 || [[:Category:Music | MUSIC]]
|-
| [[Nothing can hold a (Roman) candle to this tallying method]] || [[Ball, Howard Lee]] || || 1984-06 || 65 || [[:Category:Home/hobby | HOME/HOBBY ]]
|-
| [[LoCo CoCo and the 1812]] || [[Elliot, Sheila]] || || 1984-06 || 67 || [[:Category:Music | MUSIC]]
|-
| [[Making four-part harmony easier]] || [[Ludlum, Bob]] || || 1984-06 || 74 || [[:Category:Music | MUSIC]]
|-
| [[A dandy doodler]] || [[Vasconi, Eugene]] || || 1984-06 || 89 || [[:Category:Graphics | GRAPHICS]]
|-
| [[ A CoCo triple header]] || [[Scerbo, Fred B]] || || 1984-06 || 90 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
|-
| [[A primer on printers part 2]] || [[Nelson, Tom]] || || 1984-06 || 114 || [[:Category:Printer | PRINTER]]
|-
| [[Guess the missing number]] || [[Blyn, Steve]] || || 1984-06 || 121 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
|-
| [[Greetings from Uncle Bert]] || [[Peterson, Dale]] || || 1984-06 || 123 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
|-
| [[Equip your computer with a phoneme speech synthesizer]] || [[DiStefano, Tony]] || || 1984-06 || 128 || [[:Category:Home/hobby | HOME/HOBBY ]]
|-
| [[CoCo classics]] || [[Pollock, Tommy ; and Pollock, Gail]] || || 1984-06 || 131 || [[:Category:Music | MUSIC]]
|-
| [[A challenging word game]] || [[Curtis, H. Allen]] || || 1984-06 || 138 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[The fun connection]] || [[Popovich, Michael]] || || 1984-06 || 156 || [[:Category:Games | GAMES]]
|-
| [[The computing female]] || [[Davis, Susan P]] || || 1984-06 || 174 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
|-
| [[The computer chord finder]] || [[Rogers, Robert]] || || 1984-06 || 179 || [[:Category:Music | MUSIC]]
|-
| [[A little string music please]] || [[Hayden, Joe]] || || 1984-06 || 185 || [[:Category:Music | MUSIC]]
|-
| [[Play together, stay together]] || [[Saito, Fran ; and Albrecht, Bob]] || || 1984-06 || 198 || [[:Category:Education | EDUCATION]]
|-
| [[Wallpaper calculator]] || [[Derringer, Dennis]] || || 1984-06 || 206 || [[:Category:Home/hobby | HOME/HOBBY ]]
|-
| [[Quiz all]] || || || 1984-06 || 218 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Grafplot]] || || || 1984-06 || 220 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Here comes de Prez]] || || || 1984-06 || 222 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Random Basic]] || || || 1984-06 || 224 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Talking score-EZ]] || || || 1984-06 || 225 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Assembler math]] || || || 1984-06 || 225 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Shenanigans]] || || || 1984-06 || 226 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Espionage island. ]] || || || 1984-06 || 228 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Bible adventure]] || || || 1984-06 || 230 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Fundfile enhanced]] || || || 1984-06 || 232 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Pro-color-file]] || || || 1984-06 || 233 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Estimate]] || || || 1984-06 || 234 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Lunar rover patrol]] || || || 1984-06 || 236 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Vector addition]] || || || 1984-06 || 238 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Slay the nereis]] || || || 1984-06 || 239 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Early letter recognition]] || || || 1984-06 || 240 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Kid's choice]] || || || 1984-06 || 240 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Business manager]] || || || 1984-06 || 242 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[PBH serial interface]] || || || 1984-06 || 244 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Disktype]] || || || 1984-06 || 247 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Girdle the enemy]] || || || 1984-06 || 247 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Option 4]] || || || 1984-06 || 248 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Repeat key]] || || || 1984-06 || 249 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Morse code tutor/trainer]] || || || 1984-06 || 250 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Spooler]] || || || 1984-06 || 254 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Music box]] || || || 1984-06 || 256 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[C-lll]] || || || 1984-06 || 258 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Micromon]] || || || 1984-06 || 260 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[J-CAT modem]] || || || 1984-06 || 261 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Pretty printer]] || || || 1984-06 || 262 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Pie chart]] || || || 1984-06 || 263 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Keep text II]] || || || 1984-06 || 264 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Gemini-10X]] || || || 1984-06 || 265 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[T.UTIL]] || || || 1984-06 || 269 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Fractions tutor]] || || || 1984-06 || 270 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Electronic graph]] || || || 1984-06 || 271 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[Memory dump/patch]] || || || 1984-06 || 272 || [[:Category:Reviews | REVIEWS]]
|-
| [[OS-9? FLEX? Or both?]] || [[Hogg, Frank]] || || 1984-06 || 278 || [[:Category:Os-9 operating system | OS-9]]
|-
| [[Random BASIC'S.. .design and development of application software part 3]] || [[Searby, Paul]] || || 1984-06 || 282 || [[:Category:General | GENERAL]]
|-
| [[A mix of kits, tricks and comments]] || [[Puckett, Dale L]] || || 1984-06 || 287 || [[:Category:Os-9 operating system | OS-9]]
|}

==Stadistics of the articles index==
{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" width="280"
|-
! scope="col" width="80%" | Section
! scope="col" width="20%" | Cuantity
|-
| [[SECTION: ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE | ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE]] || 24
|-
| [[SECTION: BUSINESS | BUSINESS]] || 13
|-
| [[SECTION: COMMUNICATIONS | COMMUNICATIONS]] || 15
|-
| [[SECTION: DISK | DISK]] || 30
|-
| [[SECTION: DRAGON COMPUTER | DRAGON COMPUTER]] || 3
|-
| [[SECTION: EDUCATION | EDUCATION]] || 88
|-
| [[SECTION: GAMES | GAMES]] || 154
|-
| [[SECTION: GENERAL | GENERAL]] || 103
|-
| [[SECTION: GRAPHICS | GRAPHICS]] || 84
|-
| [[SECTION: HOME/HOBBY | HOME/HOBBY]] || 59
|-
| [[SECTION: MC10 MICRO COLOR COMPUTER | MC-10]] || 6
|-
| [[SECTION: MUSIC | MUSIC]] || 21
|-
| [[SECTION: OS-9 OPERATING SYSTEM | OS-9 ]] || 17
|-
| [[SECTION: PRINTER | PRINTER ]] || 41
|-
| [[SECTION: REVIEWS | REVIEWS ]] || 738
|-
| [[SECTION: SIMULATION | SIMULATION ]] || 7
|-
| [[SECTION: UTILITY-HARDWARE | UTILITY-HARDWARE]] || 18
|-
| [[SECTION: UTILITY-SOFTWARE | UTILITY-SOFTWARE]] || 98
|-
| [[SECTION: WORD PROCESING | WORD PROCESING]] || 28
|-
| TOTAL ARTICLES || 1528
|-
| TOTAL AUTHORS || 721
|}

==Issues of The RAINBOW Magazine available online==
* [[The RAINBOW Magazine 1981]]
* [[The RAINBOW Magazine 1982]]
* [[The RAINBOW Magazine 1983]]
* [[The RAINBOW Magazine 1984]]
* [[The RAINBOW Magazine 1985]]
* [[The RAINBOW Magazine 1986]]
* [[The RAINBOW Magazine 1987]]
* [[The RAINBOW Magazine 1988]]
* [[The RAINBOW Magazine 1989]]
* [[The RAINBOW Magazine 1990]]
* [[The RAINBOW Magazine 1991]]
* [[The RAINBOW Magazine 1992]]
* [[The RAINBOW Magazine 1993]]

When created, the links above are to scans available on the [http://archive.org Internet Archive] and were chosen for this initial effort because 
1) The Internet Archive is an entire not-for-profit (501c3) organization devoted to providing all manner of digital media to the world to view and use via the Internet, at no cost, 
2) The Internet Archive prioritizes staying available and online (''enormous'' effort and expense is devoted to high bandwidth and high reliability), and 
3) The Internet Archive includes with its scans of documents (including magazines) a variety of file type downloads besides an "image-only" PDF, such as DAISY (for print-disabled users), EPUB, Full Text, and others. 
'''[https://archive.org/about/ About the Internet Archive]'''

When this section was created, yes, some of these scans are "rough" - some of the original copies, as scanned, were dirty (poorly stored), had duct tape on their bindings, etc. There are other scanned sets of The RAINBOW available (including alternate scans on the Internet Archive), and as time permits, those scans will be examined and if merited, links for a particular issue will updated to different, better scans.

'''Links to other scanned sets of The RAINBOW:''' 
(Thanks to the participants on the [https://pairlist5.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/coco CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts] for these pointers!)

----

[https://sites.google.com/a/aaronwolfe.com/cococoding/home/magazines/rainbow CoCoCoding - Home>Magazines>Rainbow section] 
[ftp://maltedmedia.com/coco/MAGAZINES/Rainbow/ MALTED/MEDIA - /coco/MAGAZINES/Rainbow/] 
[http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/coco/Documents/Magazines/Rainbow,%20The%20(Clearscan)/ TRS-80 Color Computer Archive - Root / Documents / Magazines / Rainbow, The (Clearscan)] 
(There may be others.)

==Articles classified==
* [[CPU Speedup]]
* [[More Memory for Basic]]
* [[Printer Status]]

==External links==
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rainbow_(magazine) Wikipedia article]
*[http://www.cs.unc.edu/~yakowenk/coco/text/history.html The "CoCo" Chronicles]
*[http://www.musicheadproductions.org/rainbow-on-disc Rainbow On Disc] Break
*[http://archive.org/search.php?query=rainbow%20magazine Rainbow Magazine in Archive.org in PDF and TEXTPDF]

[[Category:Publications]]
[[Category:Magazines]]

CGP-220

2025-06-28T04:14:14Z

Carney:

{{NavHardware}}

The '''Radio Shack TRS-80 CGP-220''' (Cat. No. 26-1268) is a color inkjet printer. "CGP" stands for "Color Graphics Printer" and the 220 was the second and final printer in Radio Shack's CGP series (the first was the CGP-115, which was actually a plotter rather than a printer). The 220 debuted in 1984's [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=31 RSC-10, p.31] with a list price of $699. Like many Tandy products sold through Radio Shack, it was a licensed (and customized) version of another company's design, namely the Canon PJ-1080A, which Canon licensed out to many other manufacturers as well, including IBM [https://www.thenimbus.co.uk/nimbus-parts-list/colourjet].

Every CGP-220 came bundled with a cassette containing a CoCo color screen dump program in machine language. This despite the CGP-220 also being compatible with, and marketed to, non-CoCo and even non-Tandy/Radio Shack computer owners. This shows how committed to the CoCo Tandy was at the time, and helped to raise the CoCo's profile outside the CoCo community.

The CGP-220 actually had the same Motorola 6809E CPU that the CoCo had, as well as the same 4K RAM the original CoCo came with.

=Articles=
Overall, the CGP-220 was well-received by reviewers.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Y=Year, M=Month, P=Page
|-
! Review !! Author !! Magazine !! Y !! M !! P
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/TRS-80_Microcomputer_News_Volume_5_Issue_10_1983-10_Radio_Shack_US/page/n51/mode/2up ''The CGP-220 Ink Jet Printer''] || Linda Miller || ''[[TRS-80 Microcomputer News]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|10 || style="text-align:right;"|53
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1983-11/page/n243/mode/2up ''Color Ink Jet Printer Is Sensational CoCo Peripheral''] || [[Lonnie Falk]] || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|11|| style="text-align:right;"|242
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/PersonalComputerNews/PersonalComputerNews039-07Dec1983/page/n35/mode/2up ''Technicolour Tandy''] || Bill Davies || ''Personal Computer News'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|12 || style="text-align:right;"|35
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_UCIvSU6Y2GAC/page/n227/mode/2up A Member of the Ink-Jet Set]'' || Mark Zachmann || ''PC Magazine'' || style="text-align:center;"|84 || style="text-align:center;"|02 || style="text-align:right;"|226
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/dragon-user-magazine-11/page/n19/mode/2up Printing Power]'' || Michael Matts || ''[[Dragon User]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|84 || style="text-align:center;"|03 || style="text-align:right;"|20
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/creativecomputing-1984-06/page/n233/mode/2up TRS-80 Strings: CGP-220 Seven-Color Ink Jet Printer]''|| Stephen B. Gray || ''Creative Computing'' || style="text-align:center;"|84 || style="text-align:center;"|06 || style="text-align:right;"|226
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/PC-Mag-1984-11-27/page/n351/mode/2up Radio Shack CGP-220]''|| Vincent Puglia || ''PC Magazine'' || style="text-align:center;"|84 || style="text-align:center;"|11 || style="text-align:right;"|358
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-1984-12/page/n125/mode/2up Meet the Jet Set]''|| Phillip Johnson || ''Popular Computing'' || style="text-align:center;"|84 || style="text-align:center;"|12 || style="text-align:right;"|110
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/80-microcomputing-magazine-1985-01/page/n37/mode/2up Color Me Beautiful: Radio Shack's CGP-220 Color Printer]'' || Bradford N. Dixon || ''[[80 Micro]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|85 || style="text-align:center;"|01 || style="text-align:right;"|36
|-
|}

=Accessories=

{| class="wikitable"
|+ FP-215 Accessories
|-
! Name !! Cat. No. !! Price || Notes
|-
| Black Ink Pack || 26-1281 || style="text-align:right;"|9.95 ||
|-
| Tri-Color Ink Pack || 26-1282 || style="text-align:right;"|14.95 ||
|-
| Roll Paper (3 rolls) || 26-1333 || style="text-align:right;"|9.95 || "Recommended for best print quality"
|-
| 8½ x 11" Paper (250 sheets) || 26-1341 || style="text-align:right;"|6.95 ||
|-
| Dust Cover || 26-0533 || style="text-align:right;"|4.95 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=33 RSC-10, p. 33]
|}

=Resources=

[https://colorcomputerarchive.com/repo/Documents/Manuals/Hardware/CGP-220%20(Tandy).pdf CGP-220 User Manual on Color Computer Archive (PDF)]

[[Category:Hardware]]

FP-215

2025-06-28T03:55:32Z

Carney: /* Accessories */ upgraded list to table

{{NavHardware}}

The '''Radio Shack TRS-80 FP-215''' (Cat. No. 26-9113) is a color plotter. "FP" stands for "Flatbed Plotter". The 215 debuted in fall 1982's [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1983_rsc-08.html?fb3d-page=24 RSC-8, p.24], advertised as being available later (Dec. 12, 1982) at an "affordable" price of $995. Which it was, in comparison to the Multi-Pen Plotter costing $1,995.

Since it was not a multi-pen plotter, it could only hold one pen at a time, and the user had to change the pen manually if he wanted to go from one color to another in mid-job.

Later catalogs explicitly mentioned Color Computer compatibility for CoCo printers, but at this early point, the catalog merely indirectly implied CoCo compatibility by mentioning that the FP-215 has an RS-232C serial interface along with the parallel interface.

Having said that, the FP-215 actually has a CoCo-style 4-pin DIN serial port, enabling CoCo owners to use the cheap ($4.95) CoCo serial cable (Catalog Number 26-3020), instead of having to use the more expensive ($19.95) 4-pin DIN to DB25 serial cable (Cat. No. 26-3014) required by earlier devices with industry-standard (that is, non-CoCo) 25-pin serial ports... devices like the "TandyGraph" TRS-80 Multi-Pen Plotter (26-1191). Although the FP-215 was capable of operating via the serial interface at 1200 baud, CoCo owners had to set the device's DIP switches for only 600 baud.[https://archive.org/details/FP-215_Operation_Manual_19xx_Tandy/page/n11/mode/2up?fb3d-page=10]

=Accessories=

{| class="wikitable"
|+ FP-215 Accessories
|-
! Name !! Cat. No. !! Price || Notes
|-
| Pen Black|| 26-1343 || style="text-align:right;"|3.95 ||
|-
| Pen Red || 26-1344 || style="text-align:right;"|3.95 ||
|-
| Pen Blue || 26-1345 || style="text-align:right;"|3.95 ||
|-
| Pen Green || 26-1346 || style="text-align:right;"|3.95 ||
|-
| Dust Cover || 26-0523 || style="text-align:right;"|5.95 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1983_rsc-09.html?fb3d-page=43 didn't appear until RSC-9]
|}

=Resources=

*[https://archive.org/details/FP-215_Operation_Manual_19xx_Tandy/mode/2up FP-215 User Manual on Internet Archive]

[[Category:Hardware]]

MC-10 Micro Color Computer

2025-06-17T03:28:56Z

Carney: /* For CoCo and MC-10 */

{{NavCoCoRelatives}}
{{HardwareInfoBox |
| name = MC-10 Micro Color Computer
| photo = TRS-80 MC-10 Microcomputer.jpg
| year = 1984
| interface = serial, cassette, expansion slot, RF
| notes = 4K
| Info Source = see article citations
}}
The '''Radio Shack TRS-80 Micro Color Computer''' (also called the '''MC-10'''), first made available in 1984, was a small home computer in the era's typical "combined computer and keyboard" form factor. Tandy intended it to compete with the Timex Sinclair 1000, the low-price leader in US home computers at the time.

Despite sharing the "TRS-80 Color Computer" branding with the CoCo, and using the same [[Video Display Generator|Motorola MC6847 Video Display Generator (VDG)]], the MC-10 had significant differences with its bigger and older sibling, most notably in having a weaker and cheaper Motorola 6803 CPU rather than the CoCo's famously brawny [[6809]]. As a result, the two computers did not have full cross-compatibility, requiring at least some conversion/translation to be able to run each other's software, if at all.

The MC-10 did have the same cassette port used by other TRS-80 computers (such as the CoCo, the Model I/III/4, and the Model 100/200/102) and could use the same cassette cable (Catalog Number 26-1207) and computer tape drives they did, including the [[CCR-81]], [[CCR-82]], [[CCR-83]], and others.

The MC-10 also had the same 4-pin DIN serial port used by the CoCo and could use any [[CoCo Printers|CoCo-compatible printer]] or [[CoCo Modems|modem]]. Still, when launching the MC-10, Radio Shack also introduced a printer that, while CoCo-compatible, was intended especially for the MC-10's presumably cost-focused customers: the [[TP-10]], a small and cheap ($99) thermal printer using 4⅛" wide paper, which printed text at the exact 32 character line length provided for by the VDG the CoCo and MC-10 used. This printer was confined solely to CoCo and MC-10 use because - alone among Tandy/Radio Shack printers during the CoCo's run - it ONLY had a serial port (and the CoCo/MC-10 4-pin DIN variety at that), cutting costs by omitting the then industry-standard Centronics parallel printer port.

Although the MC-10 was "cute" and cheap, it was not well-suited for children because it had neither joystick ports nor a cartridge slot (although an enthusiast project has been able to use the expansion slot as a de facto cartridge port; [[MC-10_Micro_Color_Computer#Zippster_Zone|see the Zippster Zone section below]]). It was instead primarily aimed at electronics hobbyists (one of them had an MC-10 team up with a CoCo to control a robot derived from Radio Shack's popular Armatron robotic arm [https://archive.org/details/color-computer-magazine-1983-12/page/n21/mode/2up]) and first-time computer buyers who wanted to learn to program. Accordingly, its version of BASIC was powerful and its small keyboard enabled entire commands to be entered with minimal keystrokes.

While the MC-10 arguably made sense when Tandy began the project, the computer landscape was changing particularly rapidly at that time (even by the overall historical standards of that industry), so that by the time the MC-10 actually came out, the market had already changed due to various factors such as the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983 video game crash of 1983] and the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_personal_computers#Commodore_price_war_and_crash Commodore-driven price wars] driving the price of mid-range home computers down much closer to the low-end MC-10's price point. With those pressures and a weak lineup of officially released software at time of launch, the MC-10 sold poorly; Tandy almost immediately gave up on it, releasing no new software or accessories and slashing the price to clear out the existing inventory.

The MC-10 was discontinued in 1985.

=Articles=
==MC-10 Previews and Reviews==

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Y=Year, M=Month, P=Page
|-
! Title !! Author !! Magazine !! Y !! M !! P
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/198307Rainbow/page/n167/mode/1up ''The Pipeline: MC-10''] || Staff || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|07 || style="text-align:right;"|164
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/color-computer-magazine-1983-08/page/n91/mode/2up ''REVIEW$: TRS-80 Micro Color Computer''] || Tim McFadden, Doug Kelley || ''[[The Color Computer Magazine]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|08 || style="text-align:right;"|88
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/Basic_Computing_Vol._VI_No._08_1983-08_80-Northwest_Publishing_US/page/n92/mode/2up ''Reviews: MC-10 Computer''] || Don Scarberry || ''[[Basic Computing]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|08|| style="text-align:right;"|93
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/198308Rainbow/page/174/mode/2up ''Technical Review: Kid CoCo is no Lightweight''] || [[Dan Downard]] || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|08|| style="text-align:right;"|174
|-
| ''Radio Shack's MC-10 Micro Color Computer'' || Alfredo || ''Color Computer News'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|08|| style="text-align:right;"|88
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/Micro_NO._64_1983-09_Micro_Ink_US/page/n21/mode/2up ''CoCo Bits: The MC-10 Color Computer''] || John Steiner || ''Micro'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|09|| style="text-align:right;"|20
|-
| [https://colorcomputerarchive.com/repo/Documents/Magazines/80%20Micro/1983/80%20Micro%20-%208309%20-%20September%201983.pdf ''Reviews: Model MC-10 Micro Color Computer''] || Beve Woodbury || ''[[80 Micro]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|09|| style="text-align:right;"|38
|-
| [https://colorcomputerarchive.com/repo/Documents/Magazines/Hot%20Coco/Hot%20Coco%20Vol.%201%20No.%204%20-%20September%201983.pdf ''Review: The Mighty Mite MC-10''] || John S. Cullings || ''[[HOT CoCo]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|09|| style="text-align:right;"|66
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/creativecomputing-1983-10/page/n42/mode/1up ''The TRS-80 MC-10: Too Little, Too Late, for Too Much?''] || Owen Linzmayer || ''Creative Computing'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|10|| style="text-align:right;"|39
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/your-computer-magazine-1983-10/page/n69/mode/2up ''Review: Tandy (MC-10 and TP-10)''] || Kathleen Peel || ''Your Computer'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|10|| style="text-align:right;"|68
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/PersonalComputerWorld1983-11/page/144/mode/2up ''BenchTest: Tandy MC-10''] || Surya || ''Personal Computer World'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|11|| style="text-align:right;"|144
|-
|}

==Other Articles==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Title !! Author !! Magazine !! Y !! M !! P
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/color-computer-magazine-1983-09/page/n49/mode/2up Talk Together]'' || William Barden, Jr. || ''[[The Color Computer Magazine]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|09 || style="text-align:right;"|49
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/color-computer-magazine-1983-09/page/n79/mode/2up Custom Color]'' || [[Dennis Kitsz]] || ''[[The Color Computer Magazine]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|84 || style="text-align:center;"|09 || style="text-align:right;"|78
|}

=Accessories=
==Official Radio Shack==
===Only for MC-10===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Only for MC-10
|-
! Catalog Number !! Name !! Price !! Notes
|-
| 26-0529 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=41 MC-10 Dust Cover] || style="text-align:right;"|4.95 || note: Cat # sometimes shown as 26-529 per Radio Shack's occasional practice of skipping 0 in a catalog number if it was the first digit in a segment)
|-
| 26-3013 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=55 16K RAM Module] || style="text-align:right;"|49.95 || Only official use of expansion slot, bringing total RAM to 20K, up from the stock on-board 4K.
|}

===For CoCo and MC-10===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ For both CoCo and MC-10
|-
! Catalog Number !! Name !! Price !! Notes
|-
| 26-3195 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1985_rsc-12.html?fb3d-page=44 Book: ''TRS-80 Color Computer and MC-10 Programs''] || style="text-align:right;"|5.95 || "Features 40 programs: games, quizzes, drills, calculators, and more"
|-
| 26-1261 || [[TP-10|Radio Shack TRS-80 TP-10]] Thermal Printer || style="text-align:right;"|99.00 || For CoCo & MC-10 '''only''' - no parallel port
|-
| 26-1332 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=36 TP-10 Thermal Paper roll] (80 feet) (x2) || style="text-align:right;"|3.95 || Narrow 4⅛" Paper
|-
| 26-0531 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=41 TP-10 Dust Cover] || style="text-align:right;"|4.95 ||
|}

===For MC-10 and other TRS-80 Computers===

* [[CoCo Printers]]
* [[CoCo Modems]]
* [[Hardware#Tandy/Radio_Shack_Tape_Drive_Systems|Computer Cassette Drives]]
* [[Hardware#Monitors_and_displays|Displays]]

==Third-Party Accessories / Upgrades ==
===Back Then===
*From [[Green Mountain Micro]]:
**[https://archive.org/details/color-computer-magazine-1983-12/page/n29/mode/2up?q=%22MC-10%22 4K Upgrade Kit]: Increased on-board RAM from 4K to 8K without using up expansion slot
*[https://archive.org/details/HotCoco198404/page/n41/mode/2up PBH Computer Products CoCo Serial/Parallel Interface]. Specifically mentioned MC-10 in ad.

===Nowadays===
*[[Tandy/Radio Shack MC10 Disk Drive]]
*From the [[Zippster Zone]]:
**[https://thezippsterzone.com/2018/05/08/mc-10-composite/ Composite video out replacing the RF out]
**[https://thezippsterzone.com/2018/05/08/mc10-supercart/ "SuperCart" adding RAM, joystick ports, and a Yamaha music chip used by the MSX and Atari ST]
**[https://thezippsterzone.com/2020/06/12/mc-10-8k-internal-mod/ 8K internal mod]
**[https://thezippsterzone.com/mc-10-items-for-sale/ Other Items for Sale]

=Software=
==Official Radio Shack Software==

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Catalog Number !! Name !! Genre !! Price !! Notes
|-
| 26-3360 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=55 ''Micro Color Checkers''] || Game || $8.95 ||
|-
| 26-3361 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=55 ''Micro Color Games Pack''] || Game || $9.95 || Lunar Lander, Breakout, Hangman, Pong
|-
| 26-3362 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=55 ''Micro Color Math/Design Package''] || Math, Graphics || $9.95 ||
|-
| 26-3363 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=55 ''Micro Color Pinball''] also called ''Lost World Pinball'' || Game || $9.95 || Requires 16K RAM module. Dinosaur theme
|-
| 26-3350 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=55 ''Micro Compac''] || Telecom || $29.95 || Requires modem and serial cable
|}

==Third Party Commercial Software==

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Title !! Genre !! Publisher !! Price !! Notes
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/198307Rainbow/page/n167/mode/1up ''The Handicapper (Thoroughbred)''] || Horse racing betting guide || Federal Hill Software || $24.95 || Could be bundled with with harness version for $39.95 total
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/198307Rainbow/page/n167/mode/1up ''The Handicapper (Harness)''] || Horse racing betting guide || Federal Hill Software || $24.95 || Could be bundled with Thoroughbred version for $39.95 total
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/color-computer-magazine-1984-07/page/n91/mode/2up?q=%22MC-10%22 ''World Capitals''] || Education || Parallel Systems || $11.60* || *"Free" w/ order of 20 or more blank C-10 tapes at 58¢ each
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1983-10/page/n127/mode/2up?q=%22MC-10%22 ''Humbug''] || Debugging / monitor app || Star-Kits || $29.95|| All three Star-Kit apps also offered as a $55 bundle
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1983-10/page/n127/mode/2up?q=%22MC-10%22 ''RemoTerm''] || Remote terminal hosting|| Star-Kits || $19.95|| All three Star-Kit apps also offered as a $55 bundle
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1983-10/page/n127/mode/2up?q=%22MC-10%22 ''CommTerm''] || Telecom || Star-Kits || $19.95|| All three Star-Kit apps also offered as a $55 bundle
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/manualzilla-id-5648057/page/n111/mode/2up?q=MC ''The Nuclear Survival Program''] || Game (?) || Moses Engineering || $7
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/family-computing-15/page/n141/mode/2up?q=%22MC-10%22 ''The Home-PAC™''] || Various || Simplex Software || $19.95 || 20 "educational, graphics, recreational, home finance and utility applications"
|}

==Other Software==
===Internet Archive===
*[https://archive.org/details/software?tab=collection&query=mc-10 Internet Archive MC-10 Software List]. 850 titles! Mostly conversions of BASIC programs from other platforms, but wow
===Jim Gerrie===
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20240930080658/http://faculty.cbu.ca/jgerrie/Home/jgames.html Jim & Charlie Gerrie's MC-10 Games (archived version)]; [http://faculty.cbu.ca/jgerrie/Home/jgames.html original] is down
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20240315021950/http://faculty.cbu.ca/jgerrie/Home/MC-10Programmers.html MC-10 Games from Other Programmers (archived version)]; [https://web.archive.org/web/20240930080658/http://faculty.cbu.ca/jgerrie/Home/jgames.html original] is down
===Zippster Zone===
*[https://thezippsterzone.com/2018/05/07/mc-10-game-carts/ Game Cartridges]. Finally someone took advantage of the expansion port to make cartridges
===Inufuto===
*[https://inufuto.web.fc2.com/8bit/ Inufuto cross-platform 8 bit compiled graphical games]. Japanese developer using a cross-platform target C compiler for dozens and dozens of platforms, including the MC-10. Look for the MC-10 entries for each game, which include a YouTube video preview and cassette image downloads. Mix of original games or arcade ports (usually with a twist). Usually comes out with 1-2 new games per year. Simple description and instructions for the games are in Japanese, use Google Translator if needed.

=External Resources=
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_MC-10 Wikipedia MC-10 Article]
*[https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=55 Radio Shack Computer Catalog's MC-10 Listing]
*From Jim Gerrie:
**[http://jimgerrie.blogspot.com/ MC-10 Programming Blog]
**[https://www.youtube.com/user/BenevolentChum/videos MC-10 YouTube channel]

MC-10 Micro Color Computer

2025-06-17T03:25:52Z

Carney: /* Only for MC-10 */

{{NavCoCoRelatives}}
{{HardwareInfoBox |
| name = MC-10 Micro Color Computer
| photo = TRS-80 MC-10 Microcomputer.jpg
| year = 1984
| interface = serial, cassette, expansion slot, RF
| notes = 4K
| Info Source = see article citations
}}
The '''Radio Shack TRS-80 Micro Color Computer''' (also called the '''MC-10'''), first made available in 1984, was a small home computer in the era's typical "combined computer and keyboard" form factor. Tandy intended it to compete with the Timex Sinclair 1000, the low-price leader in US home computers at the time.

Despite sharing the "TRS-80 Color Computer" branding with the CoCo, and using the same [[Video Display Generator|Motorola MC6847 Video Display Generator (VDG)]], the MC-10 had significant differences with its bigger and older sibling, most notably in having a weaker and cheaper Motorola 6803 CPU rather than the CoCo's famously brawny [[6809]]. As a result, the two computers did not have full cross-compatibility, requiring at least some conversion/translation to be able to run each other's software, if at all.

The MC-10 did have the same cassette port used by other TRS-80 computers (such as the CoCo, the Model I/III/4, and the Model 100/200/102) and could use the same cassette cable (Catalog Number 26-1207) and computer tape drives they did, including the [[CCR-81]], [[CCR-82]], [[CCR-83]], and others.

The MC-10 also had the same 4-pin DIN serial port used by the CoCo and could use any [[CoCo Printers|CoCo-compatible printer]] or [[CoCo Modems|modem]]. Still, when launching the MC-10, Radio Shack also introduced a printer that, while CoCo-compatible, was intended especially for the MC-10's presumably cost-focused customers: the [[TP-10]], a small and cheap ($99) thermal printer using 4⅛" wide paper, which printed text at the exact 32 character line length provided for by the VDG the CoCo and MC-10 used. This printer was confined solely to CoCo and MC-10 use because - alone among Tandy/Radio Shack printers during the CoCo's run - it ONLY had a serial port (and the CoCo/MC-10 4-pin DIN variety at that), cutting costs by omitting the then industry-standard Centronics parallel printer port.

Although the MC-10 was "cute" and cheap, it was not well-suited for children because it had neither joystick ports nor a cartridge slot (although an enthusiast project has been able to use the expansion slot as a de facto cartridge port; [[MC-10_Micro_Color_Computer#Zippster_Zone|see the Zippster Zone section below]]). It was instead primarily aimed at electronics hobbyists (one of them had an MC-10 team up with a CoCo to control a robot derived from Radio Shack's popular Armatron robotic arm [https://archive.org/details/color-computer-magazine-1983-12/page/n21/mode/2up]) and first-time computer buyers who wanted to learn to program. Accordingly, its version of BASIC was powerful and its small keyboard enabled entire commands to be entered with minimal keystrokes.

While the MC-10 arguably made sense when Tandy began the project, the computer landscape was changing particularly rapidly at that time (even by the overall historical standards of that industry), so that by the time the MC-10 actually came out, the market had already changed due to various factors such as the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983 video game crash of 1983] and the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_personal_computers#Commodore_price_war_and_crash Commodore-driven price wars] driving the price of mid-range home computers down much closer to the low-end MC-10's price point. With those pressures and a weak lineup of officially released software at time of launch, the MC-10 sold poorly; Tandy almost immediately gave up on it, releasing no new software or accessories and slashing the price to clear out the existing inventory.

The MC-10 was discontinued in 1985.

=Articles=
==MC-10 Previews and Reviews==

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Y=Year, M=Month, P=Page
|-
! Title !! Author !! Magazine !! Y !! M !! P
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/198307Rainbow/page/n167/mode/1up ''The Pipeline: MC-10''] || Staff || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|07 || style="text-align:right;"|164
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/color-computer-magazine-1983-08/page/n91/mode/2up ''REVIEW$: TRS-80 Micro Color Computer''] || Tim McFadden, Doug Kelley || ''[[The Color Computer Magazine]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|08 || style="text-align:right;"|88
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/Basic_Computing_Vol._VI_No._08_1983-08_80-Northwest_Publishing_US/page/n92/mode/2up ''Reviews: MC-10 Computer''] || Don Scarberry || ''[[Basic Computing]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|08|| style="text-align:right;"|93
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/198308Rainbow/page/174/mode/2up ''Technical Review: Kid CoCo is no Lightweight''] || [[Dan Downard]] || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|08|| style="text-align:right;"|174
|-
| ''Radio Shack's MC-10 Micro Color Computer'' || Alfredo || ''Color Computer News'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|08|| style="text-align:right;"|88
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/Micro_NO._64_1983-09_Micro_Ink_US/page/n21/mode/2up ''CoCo Bits: The MC-10 Color Computer''] || John Steiner || ''Micro'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|09|| style="text-align:right;"|20
|-
| [https://colorcomputerarchive.com/repo/Documents/Magazines/80%20Micro/1983/80%20Micro%20-%208309%20-%20September%201983.pdf ''Reviews: Model MC-10 Micro Color Computer''] || Beve Woodbury || ''[[80 Micro]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|09|| style="text-align:right;"|38
|-
| [https://colorcomputerarchive.com/repo/Documents/Magazines/Hot%20Coco/Hot%20Coco%20Vol.%201%20No.%204%20-%20September%201983.pdf ''Review: The Mighty Mite MC-10''] || John S. Cullings || ''[[HOT CoCo]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|09|| style="text-align:right;"|66
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/creativecomputing-1983-10/page/n42/mode/1up ''The TRS-80 MC-10: Too Little, Too Late, for Too Much?''] || Owen Linzmayer || ''Creative Computing'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|10|| style="text-align:right;"|39
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/your-computer-magazine-1983-10/page/n69/mode/2up ''Review: Tandy (MC-10 and TP-10)''] || Kathleen Peel || ''Your Computer'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|10|| style="text-align:right;"|68
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/PersonalComputerWorld1983-11/page/144/mode/2up ''BenchTest: Tandy MC-10''] || Surya || ''Personal Computer World'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|11|| style="text-align:right;"|144
|-
|}

==Other Articles==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Title !! Author !! Magazine !! Y !! M !! P
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/color-computer-magazine-1983-09/page/n49/mode/2up Talk Together]'' || William Barden, Jr. || ''[[The Color Computer Magazine]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|09 || style="text-align:right;"|49
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/color-computer-magazine-1983-09/page/n79/mode/2up Custom Color]'' || [[Dennis Kitsz]] || ''[[The Color Computer Magazine]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|84 || style="text-align:center;"|09 || style="text-align:right;"|78
|}

=Accessories=
==Official Radio Shack==
===Only for MC-10===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Only for MC-10
|-
! Catalog Number !! Name !! Price !! Notes
|-
| 26-0529 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=41 MC-10 Dust Cover] || style="text-align:right;"|4.95 || note: Cat # sometimes shown as 26-529 per Radio Shack's occasional practice of skipping 0 in a catalog number if it was the first digit in a segment)
|-
| 26-3013 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=55 16K RAM Module] || style="text-align:right;"|49.95 || Only official use of expansion slot, bringing total RAM to 20K, up from the stock on-board 4K.
|}

===For CoCo and MC-10===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ For both CoCo and MC-10
|-
! Catalog Number !! Name !! Price !! Notes
|-
| 26-3195 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1985_rsc-12.html?fb3d-page=44 Book: ''TRS-80 Color Computer and MC-10 Programs''] || $5.95 || "Features 40 programs: games, quizzes, drills, calculators, and more"
|-
| 26-1261 || [[TP-10|Radio Shack TRS-80 TP-10]] Thermal Printer || $99 || For CoCo & MC-10 '''only''' - no parallel port
|-
| 26-1332 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=36 TP-10 Thermal Paper roll] (80 feet) (x2) || $3.95 || Narrow 4⅛" Paper
|-
| 26-0531 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=41 TP-10 Dust Cover] || $4.95 ||
|}

===For MC-10 and other TRS-80 Computers===

* [[CoCo Printers]]
* [[CoCo Modems]]
* [[Hardware#Tandy/Radio_Shack_Tape_Drive_Systems|Computer Cassette Drives]]
* [[Hardware#Monitors_and_displays|Displays]]

==Third-Party Accessories / Upgrades ==
===Back Then===
*From [[Green Mountain Micro]]:
**[https://archive.org/details/color-computer-magazine-1983-12/page/n29/mode/2up?q=%22MC-10%22 4K Upgrade Kit]: Increased on-board RAM from 4K to 8K without using up expansion slot
*[https://archive.org/details/HotCoco198404/page/n41/mode/2up PBH Computer Products CoCo Serial/Parallel Interface]. Specifically mentioned MC-10 in ad.

===Nowadays===
*[[Tandy/Radio Shack MC10 Disk Drive]]
*From the [[Zippster Zone]]:
**[https://thezippsterzone.com/2018/05/08/mc-10-composite/ Composite video out replacing the RF out]
**[https://thezippsterzone.com/2018/05/08/mc10-supercart/ "SuperCart" adding RAM, joystick ports, and a Yamaha music chip used by the MSX and Atari ST]
**[https://thezippsterzone.com/2020/06/12/mc-10-8k-internal-mod/ 8K internal mod]
**[https://thezippsterzone.com/mc-10-items-for-sale/ Other Items for Sale]

=Software=
==Official Radio Shack Software==

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Catalog Number !! Name !! Genre !! Price !! Notes
|-
| 26-3360 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=55 ''Micro Color Checkers''] || Game || $8.95 ||
|-
| 26-3361 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=55 ''Micro Color Games Pack''] || Game || $9.95 || Lunar Lander, Breakout, Hangman, Pong
|-
| 26-3362 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=55 ''Micro Color Math/Design Package''] || Math, Graphics || $9.95 ||
|-
| 26-3363 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=55 ''Micro Color Pinball''] also called ''Lost World Pinball'' || Game || $9.95 || Requires 16K RAM module. Dinosaur theme
|-
| 26-3350 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=55 ''Micro Compac''] || Telecom || $29.95 || Requires modem and serial cable
|}

==Third Party Commercial Software==

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Title !! Genre !! Publisher !! Price !! Notes
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/198307Rainbow/page/n167/mode/1up ''The Handicapper (Thoroughbred)''] || Horse racing betting guide || Federal Hill Software || $24.95 || Could be bundled with with harness version for $39.95 total
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/198307Rainbow/page/n167/mode/1up ''The Handicapper (Harness)''] || Horse racing betting guide || Federal Hill Software || $24.95 || Could be bundled with Thoroughbred version for $39.95 total
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/color-computer-magazine-1984-07/page/n91/mode/2up?q=%22MC-10%22 ''World Capitals''] || Education || Parallel Systems || $11.60* || *"Free" w/ order of 20 or more blank C-10 tapes at 58¢ each
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1983-10/page/n127/mode/2up?q=%22MC-10%22 ''Humbug''] || Debugging / monitor app || Star-Kits || $29.95|| All three Star-Kit apps also offered as a $55 bundle
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1983-10/page/n127/mode/2up?q=%22MC-10%22 ''RemoTerm''] || Remote terminal hosting|| Star-Kits || $19.95|| All three Star-Kit apps also offered as a $55 bundle
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1983-10/page/n127/mode/2up?q=%22MC-10%22 ''CommTerm''] || Telecom || Star-Kits || $19.95|| All three Star-Kit apps also offered as a $55 bundle
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/manualzilla-id-5648057/page/n111/mode/2up?q=MC ''The Nuclear Survival Program''] || Game (?) || Moses Engineering || $7
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/family-computing-15/page/n141/mode/2up?q=%22MC-10%22 ''The Home-PAC™''] || Various || Simplex Software || $19.95 || 20 "educational, graphics, recreational, home finance and utility applications"
|}

==Other Software==
===Internet Archive===
*[https://archive.org/details/software?tab=collection&query=mc-10 Internet Archive MC-10 Software List]. 850 titles! Mostly conversions of BASIC programs from other platforms, but wow
===Jim Gerrie===
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20240930080658/http://faculty.cbu.ca/jgerrie/Home/jgames.html Jim & Charlie Gerrie's MC-10 Games (archived version)]; [http://faculty.cbu.ca/jgerrie/Home/jgames.html original] is down
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20240315021950/http://faculty.cbu.ca/jgerrie/Home/MC-10Programmers.html MC-10 Games from Other Programmers (archived version)]; [https://web.archive.org/web/20240930080658/http://faculty.cbu.ca/jgerrie/Home/jgames.html original] is down
===Zippster Zone===
*[https://thezippsterzone.com/2018/05/07/mc-10-game-carts/ Game Cartridges]. Finally someone took advantage of the expansion port to make cartridges
===Inufuto===
*[https://inufuto.web.fc2.com/8bit/ Inufuto cross-platform 8 bit compiled graphical games]. Japanese developer using a cross-platform target C compiler for dozens and dozens of platforms, including the MC-10. Look for the MC-10 entries for each game, which include a YouTube video preview and cassette image downloads. Mix of original games or arcade ports (usually with a twist). Usually comes out with 1-2 new games per year. Simple description and instructions for the games are in Japanese, use Google Translator if needed.

=External Resources=
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_MC-10 Wikipedia MC-10 Article]
*[https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=55 Radio Shack Computer Catalog's MC-10 Listing]
*From Jim Gerrie:
**[http://jimgerrie.blogspot.com/ MC-10 Programming Blog]
**[https://www.youtube.com/user/BenevolentChum/videos MC-10 YouTube channel]

MC-10 Micro Color Computer

2025-06-17T03:21:52Z

Carney: /* Only for MC-10 */

{{NavCoCoRelatives}}
{{HardwareInfoBox |
| name = MC-10 Micro Color Computer
| photo = TRS-80 MC-10 Microcomputer.jpg
| year = 1984
| interface = serial, cassette, expansion slot, RF
| notes = 4K
| Info Source = see article citations
}}
The '''Radio Shack TRS-80 Micro Color Computer''' (also called the '''MC-10'''), first made available in 1984, was a small home computer in the era's typical "combined computer and keyboard" form factor. Tandy intended it to compete with the Timex Sinclair 1000, the low-price leader in US home computers at the time.

Despite sharing the "TRS-80 Color Computer" branding with the CoCo, and using the same [[Video Display Generator|Motorola MC6847 Video Display Generator (VDG)]], the MC-10 had significant differences with its bigger and older sibling, most notably in having a weaker and cheaper Motorola 6803 CPU rather than the CoCo's famously brawny [[6809]]. As a result, the two computers did not have full cross-compatibility, requiring at least some conversion/translation to be able to run each other's software, if at all.

The MC-10 did have the same cassette port used by other TRS-80 computers (such as the CoCo, the Model I/III/4, and the Model 100/200/102) and could use the same cassette cable (Catalog Number 26-1207) and computer tape drives they did, including the [[CCR-81]], [[CCR-82]], [[CCR-83]], and others.

The MC-10 also had the same 4-pin DIN serial port used by the CoCo and could use any [[CoCo Printers|CoCo-compatible printer]] or [[CoCo Modems|modem]]. Still, when launching the MC-10, Radio Shack also introduced a printer that, while CoCo-compatible, was intended especially for the MC-10's presumably cost-focused customers: the [[TP-10]], a small and cheap ($99) thermal printer using 4⅛" wide paper, which printed text at the exact 32 character line length provided for by the VDG the CoCo and MC-10 used. This printer was confined solely to CoCo and MC-10 use because - alone among Tandy/Radio Shack printers during the CoCo's run - it ONLY had a serial port (and the CoCo/MC-10 4-pin DIN variety at that), cutting costs by omitting the then industry-standard Centronics parallel printer port.

Although the MC-10 was "cute" and cheap, it was not well-suited for children because it had neither joystick ports nor a cartridge slot (although an enthusiast project has been able to use the expansion slot as a de facto cartridge port; [[MC-10_Micro_Color_Computer#Zippster_Zone|see the Zippster Zone section below]]). It was instead primarily aimed at electronics hobbyists (one of them had an MC-10 team up with a CoCo to control a robot derived from Radio Shack's popular Armatron robotic arm [https://archive.org/details/color-computer-magazine-1983-12/page/n21/mode/2up]) and first-time computer buyers who wanted to learn to program. Accordingly, its version of BASIC was powerful and its small keyboard enabled entire commands to be entered with minimal keystrokes.

While the MC-10 arguably made sense when Tandy began the project, the computer landscape was changing particularly rapidly at that time (even by the overall historical standards of that industry), so that by the time the MC-10 actually came out, the market had already changed due to various factors such as the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983 video game crash of 1983] and the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_personal_computers#Commodore_price_war_and_crash Commodore-driven price wars] driving the price of mid-range home computers down much closer to the low-end MC-10's price point. With those pressures and a weak lineup of officially released software at time of launch, the MC-10 sold poorly; Tandy almost immediately gave up on it, releasing no new software or accessories and slashing the price to clear out the existing inventory.

The MC-10 was discontinued in 1985.

=Articles=
==MC-10 Previews and Reviews==

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Y=Year, M=Month, P=Page
|-
! Title !! Author !! Magazine !! Y !! M !! P
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/198307Rainbow/page/n167/mode/1up ''The Pipeline: MC-10''] || Staff || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|07 || style="text-align:right;"|164
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/color-computer-magazine-1983-08/page/n91/mode/2up ''REVIEW$: TRS-80 Micro Color Computer''] || Tim McFadden, Doug Kelley || ''[[The Color Computer Magazine]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|08 || style="text-align:right;"|88
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/Basic_Computing_Vol._VI_No._08_1983-08_80-Northwest_Publishing_US/page/n92/mode/2up ''Reviews: MC-10 Computer''] || Don Scarberry || ''[[Basic Computing]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|08|| style="text-align:right;"|93
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/198308Rainbow/page/174/mode/2up ''Technical Review: Kid CoCo is no Lightweight''] || [[Dan Downard]] || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|08|| style="text-align:right;"|174
|-
| ''Radio Shack's MC-10 Micro Color Computer'' || Alfredo || ''Color Computer News'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|08|| style="text-align:right;"|88
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/Micro_NO._64_1983-09_Micro_Ink_US/page/n21/mode/2up ''CoCo Bits: The MC-10 Color Computer''] || John Steiner || ''Micro'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|09|| style="text-align:right;"|20
|-
| [https://colorcomputerarchive.com/repo/Documents/Magazines/80%20Micro/1983/80%20Micro%20-%208309%20-%20September%201983.pdf ''Reviews: Model MC-10 Micro Color Computer''] || Beve Woodbury || ''[[80 Micro]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|09|| style="text-align:right;"|38
|-
| [https://colorcomputerarchive.com/repo/Documents/Magazines/Hot%20Coco/Hot%20Coco%20Vol.%201%20No.%204%20-%20September%201983.pdf ''Review: The Mighty Mite MC-10''] || John S. Cullings || ''[[HOT CoCo]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|09|| style="text-align:right;"|66
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/creativecomputing-1983-10/page/n42/mode/1up ''The TRS-80 MC-10: Too Little, Too Late, for Too Much?''] || Owen Linzmayer || ''Creative Computing'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|10|| style="text-align:right;"|39
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/your-computer-magazine-1983-10/page/n69/mode/2up ''Review: Tandy (MC-10 and TP-10)''] || Kathleen Peel || ''Your Computer'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|10|| style="text-align:right;"|68
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/PersonalComputerWorld1983-11/page/144/mode/2up ''BenchTest: Tandy MC-10''] || Surya || ''Personal Computer World'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|11|| style="text-align:right;"|144
|-
|}

==Other Articles==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Title !! Author !! Magazine !! Y !! M !! P
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/color-computer-magazine-1983-09/page/n49/mode/2up Talk Together]'' || William Barden, Jr. || ''[[The Color Computer Magazine]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|09 || style="text-align:right;"|49
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/color-computer-magazine-1983-09/page/n79/mode/2up Custom Color]'' || [[Dennis Kitsz]] || ''[[The Color Computer Magazine]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|84 || style="text-align:center;"|09 || style="text-align:right;"|78
|}

=Accessories=
==Official Radio Shack==
===Only for MC-10===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Only for MC-10
|-
! Catalog Number !! Name !! Price !! Notes
|-
| 26-0529 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=41 MC-10 Dust Cover] || $4.95 || note: Cat # sometimes shown as 26-529 per Radio Shack's occasional practice of skipping 0 in a catalog number if it was the first digit in a segment)
|-
| 26-3013 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=55 16K RAM Module] || $49.95 || Only official use of expansion slot, bringing total RAM to 20K, up from the stock on-board 4K.
|}

===For CoCo and MC-10===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ For both CoCo and MC-10
|-
! Catalog Number !! Name !! Price !! Notes
|-
| 26-3195 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1985_rsc-12.html?fb3d-page=44 Book: ''TRS-80 Color Computer and MC-10 Programs''] || $5.95 || "Features 40 programs: games, quizzes, drills, calculators, and more"
|-
| 26-1261 || [[TP-10|Radio Shack TRS-80 TP-10]] Thermal Printer || $99 || For CoCo & MC-10 '''only''' - no parallel port
|-
| 26-1332 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=36 TP-10 Thermal Paper roll] (80 feet) (x2) || $3.95 || Narrow 4⅛" Paper
|-
| 26-0531 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=41 TP-10 Dust Cover] || $4.95 ||
|}

===For MC-10 and other TRS-80 Computers===

* [[CoCo Printers]]
* [[CoCo Modems]]
* [[Hardware#Tandy/Radio_Shack_Tape_Drive_Systems|Computer Cassette Drives]]
* [[Hardware#Monitors_and_displays|Displays]]

==Third-Party Accessories / Upgrades ==
===Back Then===
*From [[Green Mountain Micro]]:
**[https://archive.org/details/color-computer-magazine-1983-12/page/n29/mode/2up?q=%22MC-10%22 4K Upgrade Kit]: Increased on-board RAM from 4K to 8K without using up expansion slot
*[https://archive.org/details/HotCoco198404/page/n41/mode/2up PBH Computer Products CoCo Serial/Parallel Interface]. Specifically mentioned MC-10 in ad.

===Nowadays===
*[[Tandy/Radio Shack MC10 Disk Drive]]
*From the [[Zippster Zone]]:
**[https://thezippsterzone.com/2018/05/08/mc-10-composite/ Composite video out replacing the RF out]
**[https://thezippsterzone.com/2018/05/08/mc10-supercart/ "SuperCart" adding RAM, joystick ports, and a Yamaha music chip used by the MSX and Atari ST]
**[https://thezippsterzone.com/2020/06/12/mc-10-8k-internal-mod/ 8K internal mod]
**[https://thezippsterzone.com/mc-10-items-for-sale/ Other Items for Sale]

=Software=
==Official Radio Shack Software==

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Catalog Number !! Name !! Genre !! Price !! Notes
|-
| 26-3360 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=55 ''Micro Color Checkers''] || Game || $8.95 ||
|-
| 26-3361 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=55 ''Micro Color Games Pack''] || Game || $9.95 || Lunar Lander, Breakout, Hangman, Pong
|-
| 26-3362 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=55 ''Micro Color Math/Design Package''] || Math, Graphics || $9.95 ||
|-
| 26-3363 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=55 ''Micro Color Pinball''] also called ''Lost World Pinball'' || Game || $9.95 || Requires 16K RAM module. Dinosaur theme
|-
| 26-3350 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=55 ''Micro Compac''] || Telecom || $29.95 || Requires modem and serial cable
|}

==Third Party Commercial Software==

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Title !! Genre !! Publisher !! Price !! Notes
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/198307Rainbow/page/n167/mode/1up ''The Handicapper (Thoroughbred)''] || Horse racing betting guide || Federal Hill Software || $24.95 || Could be bundled with with harness version for $39.95 total
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/198307Rainbow/page/n167/mode/1up ''The Handicapper (Harness)''] || Horse racing betting guide || Federal Hill Software || $24.95 || Could be bundled with Thoroughbred version for $39.95 total
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/color-computer-magazine-1984-07/page/n91/mode/2up?q=%22MC-10%22 ''World Capitals''] || Education || Parallel Systems || $11.60* || *"Free" w/ order of 20 or more blank C-10 tapes at 58¢ each
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1983-10/page/n127/mode/2up?q=%22MC-10%22 ''Humbug''] || Debugging / monitor app || Star-Kits || $29.95|| All three Star-Kit apps also offered as a $55 bundle
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1983-10/page/n127/mode/2up?q=%22MC-10%22 ''RemoTerm''] || Remote terminal hosting|| Star-Kits || $19.95|| All three Star-Kit apps also offered as a $55 bundle
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1983-10/page/n127/mode/2up?q=%22MC-10%22 ''CommTerm''] || Telecom || Star-Kits || $19.95|| All three Star-Kit apps also offered as a $55 bundle
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/manualzilla-id-5648057/page/n111/mode/2up?q=MC ''The Nuclear Survival Program''] || Game (?) || Moses Engineering || $7
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/family-computing-15/page/n141/mode/2up?q=%22MC-10%22 ''The Home-PAC™''] || Various || Simplex Software || $19.95 || 20 "educational, graphics, recreational, home finance and utility applications"
|}

==Other Software==
===Internet Archive===
*[https://archive.org/details/software?tab=collection&query=mc-10 Internet Archive MC-10 Software List]. 850 titles! Mostly conversions of BASIC programs from other platforms, but wow
===Jim Gerrie===
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20240930080658/http://faculty.cbu.ca/jgerrie/Home/jgames.html Jim & Charlie Gerrie's MC-10 Games (archived version)]; [http://faculty.cbu.ca/jgerrie/Home/jgames.html original] is down
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20240315021950/http://faculty.cbu.ca/jgerrie/Home/MC-10Programmers.html MC-10 Games from Other Programmers (archived version)]; [https://web.archive.org/web/20240930080658/http://faculty.cbu.ca/jgerrie/Home/jgames.html original] is down
===Zippster Zone===
*[https://thezippsterzone.com/2018/05/07/mc-10-game-carts/ Game Cartridges]. Finally someone took advantage of the expansion port to make cartridges
===Inufuto===
*[https://inufuto.web.fc2.com/8bit/ Inufuto cross-platform 8 bit compiled graphical games]. Japanese developer using a cross-platform target C compiler for dozens and dozens of platforms, including the MC-10. Look for the MC-10 entries for each game, which include a YouTube video preview and cassette image downloads. Mix of original games or arcade ports (usually with a twist). Usually comes out with 1-2 new games per year. Simple description and instructions for the games are in Japanese, use Google Translator if needed.

=External Resources=
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_MC-10 Wikipedia MC-10 Article]
*[https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=55 Radio Shack Computer Catalog's MC-10 Listing]
*From Jim Gerrie:
**[http://jimgerrie.blogspot.com/ MC-10 Programming Blog]
**[https://www.youtube.com/user/BenevolentChum/videos MC-10 YouTube channel]

MC-10 Micro Color Computer

2025-05-31T00:53:32Z

Carney:

{{NavCoCoRelatives}}
{{HardwareInfoBox |
| name = MC-10 Micro Color Computer
| photo = TRS-80 MC-10 Microcomputer.jpg
| year = 1984
| interface = serial, cassette, expansion slot, RF
| notes = 4K
| Info Source = see article citations
}}
The '''Radio Shack TRS-80 Micro Color Computer''' (also called the '''MC-10'''), first made available in 1984, was a small home computer in the era's typical "combined computer and keyboard" form factor. Tandy intended it to compete with the Timex Sinclair 1000, the low-price leader in US home computers at the time.

Despite sharing the "TRS-80 Color Computer" branding with the CoCo, and using the same [[Video Display Generator|Motorola MC6847 Video Display Generator (VDG)]], the MC-10 had significant differences with its bigger and older sibling, most notably in having a weaker and cheaper Motorola 6803 CPU rather than the CoCo's famously brawny [[6809]]. As a result, the two computers did not have full cross-compatibility, requiring at least some conversion/translation to be able to run each other's software, if at all.

The MC-10 did have the same cassette port used by other TRS-80 computers (such as the CoCo, the Model I/III/4, and the Model 100/200/102) and could use the same cassette cable (Catalog Number 26-1207) and computer tape drives they did, including the [[CCR-81]], [[CCR-82]], [[CCR-83]], and others.

The MC-10 also had the same 4-pin DIN serial port used by the CoCo and could use any [[CoCo Printers|CoCo-compatible printer]] or [[CoCo Modems|modem]]. Still, when launching the MC-10, Radio Shack also introduced a printer that, while CoCo-compatible, was intended especially for the MC-10's presumably cost-focused customers: the [[TP-10]], a small and cheap ($99) thermal printer using 4⅛" wide paper, which printed text at the exact 32 character line length provided for by the VDG the CoCo and MC-10 used. This printer was confined solely to CoCo and MC-10 use because - alone among Tandy/Radio Shack printers during the CoCo's run - it ONLY had a serial port (and the CoCo/MC-10 4-pin DIN variety at that), cutting costs by omitting the then industry-standard Centronics parallel printer port.

Although the MC-10 was "cute" and cheap, it was not well-suited for children because it had neither joystick ports nor a cartridge slot (although an enthusiast project has been able to use the expansion slot as a de facto cartridge port; [[MC-10_Micro_Color_Computer#Zippster_Zone|see the Zippster Zone section below]]). It was instead primarily aimed at electronics hobbyists (one of them had an MC-10 team up with a CoCo to control a robot derived from Radio Shack's popular Armatron robotic arm [https://archive.org/details/color-computer-magazine-1983-12/page/n21/mode/2up]) and first-time computer buyers who wanted to learn to program. Accordingly, its version of BASIC was powerful and its small keyboard enabled entire commands to be entered with minimal keystrokes.

While the MC-10 arguably made sense when Tandy began the project, the computer landscape was changing particularly rapidly at that time (even by the overall historical standards of that industry), so that by the time the MC-10 actually came out, the market had already changed due to various factors such as the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983 video game crash of 1983] and the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_personal_computers#Commodore_price_war_and_crash Commodore-driven price wars] driving the price of mid-range home computers down much closer to the low-end MC-10's price point. With those pressures and a weak lineup of officially released software at time of launch, the MC-10 sold poorly; Tandy almost immediately gave up on it, releasing no new software or accessories and slashing the price to clear out the existing inventory.

The MC-10 was discontinued in 1985.

=Articles=
==MC-10 Previews and Reviews==

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Y=Year, M=Month, P=Page
|-
! Title !! Author !! Magazine !! Y !! M !! P
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/198307Rainbow/page/n167/mode/1up ''The Pipeline: MC-10''] || Staff || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|07 || style="text-align:right;"|164
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/color-computer-magazine-1983-08/page/n91/mode/2up ''REVIEW$: TRS-80 Micro Color Computer''] || Tim McFadden, Doug Kelley || ''[[The Color Computer Magazine]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|08 || style="text-align:right;"|88
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/Basic_Computing_Vol._VI_No._08_1983-08_80-Northwest_Publishing_US/page/n92/mode/2up ''Reviews: MC-10 Computer''] || Don Scarberry || ''[[Basic Computing]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|08|| style="text-align:right;"|93
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/198308Rainbow/page/174/mode/2up ''Technical Review: Kid CoCo is no Lightweight''] || [[Dan Downard]] || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|08|| style="text-align:right;"|174
|-
| ''Radio Shack's MC-10 Micro Color Computer'' || Alfredo || ''Color Computer News'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|08|| style="text-align:right;"|88
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/Micro_NO._64_1983-09_Micro_Ink_US/page/n21/mode/2up ''CoCo Bits: The MC-10 Color Computer''] || John Steiner || ''Micro'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|09|| style="text-align:right;"|20
|-
| [https://colorcomputerarchive.com/repo/Documents/Magazines/80%20Micro/1983/80%20Micro%20-%208309%20-%20September%201983.pdf ''Reviews: Model MC-10 Micro Color Computer''] || Beve Woodbury || ''[[80 Micro]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|09|| style="text-align:right;"|38
|-
| [https://colorcomputerarchive.com/repo/Documents/Magazines/Hot%20Coco/Hot%20Coco%20Vol.%201%20No.%204%20-%20September%201983.pdf ''Review: The Mighty Mite MC-10''] || John S. Cullings || ''[[HOT CoCo]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|09|| style="text-align:right;"|66
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/creativecomputing-1983-10/page/n42/mode/1up ''The TRS-80 MC-10: Too Little, Too Late, for Too Much?''] || Owen Linzmayer || ''Creative Computing'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|10|| style="text-align:right;"|39
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/your-computer-magazine-1983-10/page/n69/mode/2up ''Review: Tandy (MC-10 and TP-10)''] || Kathleen Peel || ''Your Computer'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|10|| style="text-align:right;"|68
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/PersonalComputerWorld1983-11/page/144/mode/2up ''BenchTest: Tandy MC-10''] || Surya || ''Personal Computer World'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|11|| style="text-align:right;"|144
|-
|}

==Other Articles==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Title !! Author !! Magazine !! Y !! M !! P
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/color-computer-magazine-1983-09/page/n49/mode/2up Talk Together]'' || William Barden, Jr. || ''[[The Color Computer Magazine]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|09 || style="text-align:right;"|49
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/color-computer-magazine-1983-09/page/n79/mode/2up Custom Color]'' || [[Dennis Kitsz]] || ''[[The Color Computer Magazine]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|84 || style="text-align:center;"|09 || style="text-align:right;"|78
|}

=Accessories=
==Official Radio Shack==
===Only for MC-10===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Only for MC-10
|-
! Catalog Number !! Name !! Price !! Notes
|-
| 26-0529 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=41 MC-10 Dust Cover] || $4.95 || note: Cat # sometimes shown as 26-529 per Radio Shack's occasional practice of skipping 0 in a catalog number if it was the first digit in a segment)
|-
| 26-3013 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=55 16K RAM Module] || $9.95 || Only official use of expansion slot, bringing total RAM to 20K, up from the stock on-board 4K.
|}

===For CoCo and MC-10===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ For both CoCo and MC-10
|-
! Catalog Number !! Name !! Price !! Notes
|-
| 26-3195 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1985_rsc-12.html?fb3d-page=44 Book: ''TRS-80 Color Computer and MC-10 Programs''] || $5.95 || "Features 40 programs: games, quizzes, drills, calculators, and more"
|-
| 26-1261 || [[TP-10|Radio Shack TRS-80 TP-10]] Thermal Printer || $99 || For CoCo & MC-10 '''only''' - no parallel port
|-
| 26-1332 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=36 TP-10 Thermal Paper roll] (80 feet) (x2) || $3.95 || Narrow 4⅛" Paper
|-
| 26-0531 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=41 TP-10 Dust Cover] || $4.95 ||
|}

===For MC-10 and other TRS-80 Computers===

* [[CoCo Printers]]
* [[CoCo Modems]]
* [[Hardware#Tandy/Radio_Shack_Tape_Drive_Systems|Computer Cassette Drives]]
* [[Hardware#Monitors_and_displays|Displays]]

==Third-Party Accessories / Upgrades ==
===Back Then===
*From [[Green Mountain Micro]]:
**[https://archive.org/details/color-computer-magazine-1983-12/page/n29/mode/2up?q=%22MC-10%22 4K Upgrade Kit]: Increased on-board RAM from 4K to 8K without using up expansion slot
*[https://archive.org/details/HotCoco198404/page/n41/mode/2up PBH Computer Products CoCo Serial/Parallel Interface]. Specifically mentioned MC-10 in ad.

===Nowadays===
*[[Tandy/Radio Shack MC10 Disk Drive]]
*From the [[Zippster Zone]]:
**[https://thezippsterzone.com/2018/05/08/mc-10-composite/ Composite video out replacing the RF out]
**[https://thezippsterzone.com/2018/05/08/mc10-supercart/ "SuperCart" adding RAM, joystick ports, and a Yamaha music chip used by the MSX and Atari ST]
**[https://thezippsterzone.com/2020/06/12/mc-10-8k-internal-mod/ 8K internal mod]
**[https://thezippsterzone.com/mc-10-items-for-sale/ Other Items for Sale]

=Software=
==Official Radio Shack Software==

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Catalog Number !! Name !! Genre !! Price !! Notes
|-
| 26-3360 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=55 ''Micro Color Checkers''] || Game || $8.95 ||
|-
| 26-3361 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=55 ''Micro Color Games Pack''] || Game || $9.95 || Lunar Lander, Breakout, Hangman, Pong
|-
| 26-3362 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=55 ''Micro Color Math/Design Package''] || Math, Graphics || $9.95 ||
|-
| 26-3363 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=55 ''Micro Color Pinball''] also called ''Lost World Pinball'' || Game || $9.95 || Requires 16K RAM module. Dinosaur theme
|-
| 26-3350 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=55 ''Micro Compac''] || Telecom || $29.95 || Requires modem and serial cable
|}

==Third Party Commercial Software==

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Title !! Genre !! Publisher !! Price !! Notes
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/198307Rainbow/page/n167/mode/1up ''The Handicapper (Thoroughbred)''] || Horse racing betting guide || Federal Hill Software || $24.95 || Could be bundled with with harness version for $39.95 total
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/198307Rainbow/page/n167/mode/1up ''The Handicapper (Harness)''] || Horse racing betting guide || Federal Hill Software || $24.95 || Could be bundled with Thoroughbred version for $39.95 total
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/color-computer-magazine-1984-07/page/n91/mode/2up?q=%22MC-10%22 ''World Capitals''] || Education || Parallel Systems || $11.60* || *"Free" w/ order of 20 or more blank C-10 tapes at 58¢ each
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1983-10/page/n127/mode/2up?q=%22MC-10%22 ''Humbug''] || Debugging / monitor app || Star-Kits || $29.95|| All three Star-Kit apps also offered as a $55 bundle
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1983-10/page/n127/mode/2up?q=%22MC-10%22 ''RemoTerm''] || Remote terminal hosting|| Star-Kits || $19.95|| All three Star-Kit apps also offered as a $55 bundle
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1983-10/page/n127/mode/2up?q=%22MC-10%22 ''CommTerm''] || Telecom || Star-Kits || $19.95|| All three Star-Kit apps also offered as a $55 bundle
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/manualzilla-id-5648057/page/n111/mode/2up?q=MC ''The Nuclear Survival Program''] || Game (?) || Moses Engineering || $7
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/family-computing-15/page/n141/mode/2up?q=%22MC-10%22 ''The Home-PAC™''] || Various || Simplex Software || $19.95 || 20 "educational, graphics, recreational, home finance and utility applications"
|}

==Other Software==
===Internet Archive===
*[https://archive.org/details/software?tab=collection&query=mc-10 Internet Archive MC-10 Software List]. 850 titles! Mostly conversions of BASIC programs from other platforms, but wow
===Jim Gerrie===
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20240930080658/http://faculty.cbu.ca/jgerrie/Home/jgames.html Jim & Charlie Gerrie's MC-10 Games (archived version)]; [http://faculty.cbu.ca/jgerrie/Home/jgames.html original] is down
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20240315021950/http://faculty.cbu.ca/jgerrie/Home/MC-10Programmers.html MC-10 Games from Other Programmers (archived version)]; [https://web.archive.org/web/20240930080658/http://faculty.cbu.ca/jgerrie/Home/jgames.html original] is down
===Zippster Zone===
*[https://thezippsterzone.com/2018/05/07/mc-10-game-carts/ Game Cartridges]. Finally someone took advantage of the expansion port to make cartridges
===Inufuto===
*[https://inufuto.web.fc2.com/8bit/ Inufuto cross-platform 8 bit compiled graphical games]. Japanese developer using a cross-platform target C compiler for dozens and dozens of platforms, including the MC-10. Look for the MC-10 entries for each game, which include a YouTube video preview and cassette image downloads. Mix of original games or arcade ports (usually with a twist). Usually comes out with 1-2 new games per year. Simple description and instructions for the games are in Japanese, use Google Translator if needed.

=External Resources=
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_MC-10 Wikipedia MC-10 Article]
*[https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=55 Radio Shack Computer Catalog's MC-10 Listing]
*From Jim Gerrie:
**[http://jimgerrie.blogspot.com/ MC-10 Programming Blog]
**[https://www.youtube.com/user/BenevolentChum/videos MC-10 YouTube channel]

Hardware

2025-05-31T00:28:00Z

Carney: /* Bus Expander */ added details and links about CMJ-IF

{{NavHardware}}
==Hardware design and integrated circuits==
Internally the CoCo 1 and CoCo 2 models are functionally identical. The core of the system is virtually identical to the reference design included in the Motorola MC6883 data sheet and consists of five LSI chips:

*MC6809E [[Microprocessor Unit]] (MPU)
*MC6883/SN74LS783/SN74LS785 [[Synchronous Address Multiplexer]] (SAM)
*MC6847 [[Video Display Generator]] (VDG)
*Two [[Peripheral Interface Adapters]] (PIA), either MC6821 or MC6822 chips

==Audio Digitizers==
*[[Delta Pro]]
*[[Max Sound]] - GimeSoft's audio recorder that used the joystick port.

==Audio Output Devices==
*[[Orchestra-90 CC (26-3143)]] - Software Affair Stereo Music Synthesizer DAC recreated by Zippster as the [[CoCoDAC-16]]
*[[Speech/Sound Cartridge (26-3144A)]] - General Instruments Music and Speech Synthesizer AY3-8913 Programmable Sound Generator (PSG) and an SPO256-AL2 Narrator Speech Processor
*[[Symphony-12]] - Speech Systems' 4 x AY-3-8912 PSG for 12 channel sound, recreated as the [[Philharmonic-12]]
*[[Game Master Cart]] - RetroTinker's Flash ROM and SN76489AN Digital Complex Sound Generator (DCSG)
*[[CoCo PSG]] - Zippster's YM-2149 Software-controlled Sound Generator (SSG)
*[[MEGA mini MPI]] - Zippster's YM-262F OPL3 FM Synthesizer
*[[The Voice]] - Speech Systems' Speech Synthesizer with the Votrax SC-01
*[[Super Voice]] - Speech Systems' Speech Synthesizer device that could sing with a Votrax SC-02 / SSI 263A
*[[Real Talker]] - Colorware Voice Synthesizer with the Votrax SC-01

==Bus Expander==
*[[Multi-Pak|Tandy Multipak (26-3024)]]
*[[Multi-Pak|Tandy Multipak (26-3124)]]
*[[Colorburst|Colorburst By Maxsys]]
*[[Howard Medical Slotpak]]
*[[Orion Technologies XPort]]
*[[CoNect Xpander]]
*[[CoNect Y Box]]
*[[Y-Cable]]
*[[Solderless Proto Board]]
*Basic Technology
**BT-1000 [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1983-02/page/n27/mode/2up Feb 1982 ''Rainbow'' ad]
**BT-2000
**BT Companion [https://archive.org/details/color-computer-magazine-1984-01/page/n29/mode/2up?view=theater Jan 84 ''TCM'' ad ]
*CMJ-IF. All-in-one expansion cartridge adding parallel ports, serial, comms, speech, and an expansion extender. [https://archive.org/details/the-rainbow-magazine-1984/The%20Rainbow%20Vol.%2003%20No.%2006%20-%20January%201984/page/n221/mode/2up Jan '84 ''Rainbow'' ad], [https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Poptronics/80s/1983/CE-1983-12r.pdf Review in Dec '83 ''Computers & Electronics'' p. 20], [http://www.blish.org/gens/1402B.html apparently designed by Charles Benjamin Blish]

==Computers & Clones==
*[[TRS-80 Color Computers]] (A list of all available models)
*[[Dragon]]
*[[MC-10_Micro_Color_Computer|MC-10 Micro Color Computer]]
*[[CP400]]
*[[TDP-100]]
*[[LZ Color64]] Brazilian clone
*[[Dynacom MX-1600]] Brazilian clone

==Tandy/Radio Shack Tape Drive Systems==
*[[CTR-80A]]
*[[CCR-81 (26-1208)]]
*[[CCR-82]]
*[[CCR-83]]

=== Other Tape Drive Systems ===
*[[Exatron Stringy Floppy]]

== Floppy Disk Controllers ==

* [[Other Floppy Disk]] - notes and information about the CoCo FD controllers

=== Tandy/Radio Shack floppy disk controllers ===
* [[26-3022]]
* [[26-3029]]
* [[FD-500 (26-3129)]]
* [[FD-501 (26-3131)]]
* [[FD-502 (26-3133)]]

=== Third party floppy disk controllers ===
* [[SDC Floppy Emulator]]
* [[Disto Super Disk Controller]]
* [[Disto Super Disk Controller II]]
* [[Disto Mini Controller]]
* [[J&M/Owl-Ware]]
* [[Hard Drive Specialists]]
* [[Sardis Technologies 'no-halt' Controller]]

=== Hacking floppy disk ===
*[[Hacking Disk]] 40, 80 Track, 2 Sides
*[[26-3029 CoCo Disk Controller High Density Modifications]] - ([http://users.digitalindigo.net/~techno/coco_floppy.html source])

=== Alternate floppy disk controller ROMs ===
*[[ADOS/ADOS-3]]
*[[RGBDOS]]
*[[JDOS]]
*[[MYDOS]]
*[[CDOS]]
*[[OWLDOS]]
*[[HDB-DOS]]

==Hard Drive Controllers==
* [[Disto Hard Disk II Adapter]]
*[[Tandy Hard Drive Controller]]
* [[CoCo XT]] / CoCo XT-RTC by [[Burke & Burke]]
*[[KenTon]] - SCSI
*[[Gleside IDE Interface]]
*[[Cloud-9 SuperIDE Interface]]
*[[Cloud-9 TC^3 SCSI Interface]]
*[[Owl-Ware]]

==Input Devices==

[[Joysticks]]
[[Paddles]]

=== Tandy / Radio Shack ===
*[[Joystick]]
*[[Deluxe Joystick]]
*[[Color Mouse]] (1 Button)
*[[Deluxe Color Mouse]] (2 button)
*[[Tandy Hi-Res Joystick Adapter]]
*[[Pistol Grip Joystick]]
*[[X-Pad]]
*Archer Cat. No. 270-9207. With both a Tandy 6-pin DIN and an IBM PC 15-pin connector, plus a "Tandy/IBM" switch on underside.

=== Third party ===
*[[CoCo-150]] - Flight Sim Yoke, Alban Scientific, [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1985-02/page/n273/mode/2up ''The Rainbow'' Feb 1985]
*[[The Glove]]
*[[Le Stick]]
*[[Wico Deluxe Joystick]]
*[[WICO Computer Command Trackball]]
*[[WICO Computer Command Analog Joystick]]
*[[HJL-57 upgrade Keyboard]]
*[[HJL NumberJack]] numeric keypad
*[[Koala Pad]]
*[[Diecom Light Phaser Interface]]
*[[Comrex ComMander Deluxe]]
*[[Altai DR-2B]]
*[[Spectrum Mach II Joystick]]
*[[Spectrum Paddle]]
*[[Spectrum Stick]]
*[[MAXX Flight Control Yoke]] - [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/cm1991_software_buyers_guide.html?fb3d-page=71| 1991 Software Buyers Guide p. 71] listed it as CoCo compatible. Cat. No. 900-2176
*[[Advanced Gravis Mark VI Competition Joystick]] - [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1991_rsc-22.html?fb3d-page=38| RSC-22 p.38] listed Tandy-specific version Cat. No. 900-2380, also advertised in ''The Rainbow'' starting around Feb 1989.
*[[Endicott Joystick]]
*[[JARB Dual Joystick Unit]]. "Single unit assembly enhances playability of multi-joystick/player games; convenient press-to-fire buttons." [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1982-11/page/n69/mode/2up Ad in November 1982 ''Rainbow'' p. 71]

=== Accessories ===
*[[Atari to CoCo Joystick Adapter]]
*[[Colorware Super Hi-Res Interface]]
*[[Hawksoft Dual Hi-Res Joystick Adapter]]
*[[Puppo Keyboard Adapter]]
*[[OWL Keyboard Adapter]]
*[[Cloud-9 AT Keyboard Adapter]]
*[[Joy-Mouse Interface]] - Adapter from Micro-Labs allowing a [[Joysticks|CoCo-standard joystick]] to connect to a TRS-80 Model III or 4.

==Memory Upgrades==
*[[Tandy 512K Upgrade]]
*[[Performance Peripherals 512K Upgrade]]
*[[Cloud-9 Triad 512K SRAM Upgrade]]
*[[Boyson Tech Boomerang 512K Upgrade]]
*[[Disto 512K Upgrade]]
*[[Disto 1MB Upgrade]]
*[[Disto 2MB Upgrade]]

==MIDI Interfaces==
*[[CoCo MIDI]]
*[[MIDI Maestro]] and [[MIDI Maestro+]]

== Monitors and displays ==

* Radio Shack
** 26-3010 - [[TRS-80 Color Video Receiver]] introduced in the [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1981_rsc-04.html?fb3d-page=30 1981 Radio Shack Computer Catalog RSC-4] and the [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1981_radioshack_catalog.html?fb3d-page=174 1981 Radio Shack main catalog].
** 16-230 - 13" color TV, model number TC-130. Introduced in [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1983_radioshack_catalog.html?fb3d-page=154| the 1983 general Radio Shack catalog], and shown as the CoCo's display in [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1983_radioshack_catalog.html?fb3d-page=184 that same catalog's back cover]. Also shown on [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1983_rsc-08.html?fb3d-page=01| the cover of 1983's Radio Shack Computer Catalog RSC-8] and [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1983_rsc-08.html?fb3d-page=31 once in the CoCo section] where the Color Video Receiver was still more prominent. Not fully shown in the interior of an RSC [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1983_rsc-09.html?fb3d-page=46| until RSC-9 later in 1983].
** 16-231 - a 13" TV. Introduced in the [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1985_radioshack_catalog.html?fb3d-page=104 1985 Radio Shack main catalog]. Shown as the display [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1985_radioshack_catalog.html?fb3d-page=164| in the CoCo's listing in that same catalog] as well as (in 1985's RSC-12 Computer Catalog) on both [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1985_rsc-12.html?fb3d-page=01 the cover] and [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1985_rsc-12.html??fb3d-page=50 the CoCo's own listings].
** 16-232 - a 13" TV/Video Monitor. Introduced in the [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1986_radioshack_catalog.html?fb3d-page=89 1986 Radio Shack main catalog]. Shown as the display in [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1986_radioshack_catalog.html?fb3d-page=166 the CoCo's listing in that same catalog] as well as in [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1986_rsc-15.html?fb3d-page=42 1986's Radio Shack Computer Catalog RSC-15].
** 16-233 - a 13" TV, model number TC-171. Introduced in the [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1988_radioshack_catalog.html?fb3d-page=99 1988 Radio Shack main catalog]. Also shown as the display [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1988_radioshack_catalog.html?fb3d-page=162| in the CoCo 2's listing in that same catalog] and in [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1988_rsc-19.html?fb3d-page=26 1988's Radio Shack Computer Catalog RSC-19].
** 16-288 - a 13" TV/monitor, model number TC-194. Postdates the CoCo [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1996_radioshack_catalog.html?fb3d-page=100 (1996 main catalog)] but a Radio Shack branded tabletop CRT.
** 16-246 - a 9" TV/monitor. Postdates the CoCo [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1996_radioshack_catalog.html?fb3d-page=100 (1996 main catalog)] but a Radio Shack branded tabletop CRT. Also suitable for the [[MC-10]]?
** 16-289 - a 13" TV/monitor, model number TC-195. Postdates the CoCo [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1997_radioshack_catalog.html?fb3d-page=124 (1997 main catalog)] but a Radio Shack branded tabletop CRT.
* Tandy
** 26-3512 [[CM-8]] Specifically made for the CoCo 3. Affordable but no composite input, thus many CoCo 1/2 programs would show in black-and-white.
** 25-8056 [[RGB-11]] [https://colorcomputerarchive.com/repo/Documents/Manuals/Hardware/RGB-11%20Color%20Monitor.pdf Listed in the Color Computer Archive]. Perhaps only for composite input use rather than RGB.
** 26-3211 [[VM-2]] Monochrome (green-screen) composite. Had "Tandy TRS-80" branding; part of the brief attempt to hold on to "TRS-80" while still moving to "Tandy" instead of "Radio Shack". Introduced in [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1985_rsc-14.html?fb3d-page=4 RSC-14 in 1985]; intended for the Tandy 1000 and the Model 100's Disk/Video Interface rather than the CoCo, but when the CoCo 3 complete with composite port came along two years later, it could be an inexpensive option for those intending their CoCos for productivity, telecom, text adventures, and monochrome graphical games like [[Dungeons of Daggorath|Daggorath]] and [[Project Nebula|Nebula]], and wanted the higher resolution than a TV could provide.
** 25-1020 [[VM-4]] Successor of the VM-2. Introduced in [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1987_rsc-17.html?fb3d-page=10 RSC-17]. Mentioned by [[Marty Goodman]] as being [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1987-08/page/n71/mode/2up "perfectly compatible" with the CoCo 3] - but, again, being monochrome, was not ideal for most games or graphics. Perhaps any monochrome composite monitor would work.

* Magnavox
**[[8CM505]]
**[[8CM643]]
**[[8CM515]] - Analog RGB and composite color. The August [[Rainbow_Magazine_1987|1987]] ''[[Rainbow]]'' ran a [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1987-08/page/n141/mode/2up favorable review by Ed Ellers (p.140-141)] and a [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1987-08/page/n71/mode/2up recommendation from Marty Goodman (pp. 70,73,75)]. [[Cloud-9]] [http://www.frontiernet.net/~mmarlette/Cloud-9/Hardware/Video%20Cables.html still offers a CoCo 3 adapter cable].
**[[1CM135]] - Replaced the 8CM515, adding stereo sound input, Commodore-style S-Video with chorma-luma input, and CGA RGB. [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1991-03/page/n13/mode/2up?q=8cm515 Recommended by Marty Goodman in the March 1991 ''Rainbow''.]
* Sony
**[[KV-1311CR]]. Howard Medical Computers and [[Spectrum Projects]] sold CoCo 3 cables for the analog RGB connection.
**[[KX-1211HG]]

* Teknika
**MJ305 [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1987-01/page/n92/mode/1up]

*[[15KHz SVGA Monitors]]

==Arithmetic Processor Units==
*[https://github.com/barberd/coco9511pak CoCo AM9511 Pak]

==Multi Devices==
These are items that serve more than one purpose, such as Cloud-9's SuperBoard.
*[[SuperBoard]]
*[[FHL Eliminator]]
*[[Disto MEB]]

==Printers==
*[[CoCo Printers]]

==RS232 Devices==
*[[Deluxe RS232 Pak]]
*[[Direct Connect Modem Pak]]
*[[Orion Technologies RS232 Pak]]
*[[Disto RS232 Pak]]
*[[PBJ Dual Serial Port Pak]]
*[[Kenton Dual Serial Port Pak]]
*[[Quad Serial Port Pak]] - Who made this?
*[[CoCoPro! RS232 Pak]]
*[[CoNect Dual RS232 Pak]]
*[[CoNect RS232 Pak]]
*[[CoNect 16550 Pak]] - what is the official name?
*[[Metric Model 101p Serial to Parallel Converter]]
*[[Dayton Industries Blue Streak Ultima Serial to Parallel Converter]]
*[https://github.com/barberd/cocousbserial CoCo USB Serial Pak]

==Video Digitizers==
*[[Rascan]]
*[[DS-69 Digisector]]

== Video Out==
=== Historical Solutions ===
*[[PBJ Wordpak/Wordpak II]]
*[[Lucas Industries 2000 AutoDim]]
*[[RGB to VGA Converter]]
*[[CoCo 3 RGB to CGA/EGA Adapter]]

=== Build it yourself ===
*[[CoCo 1 Monochrome Video]]
*[[CoCo 1 composite video]]
*[https://imgur.com/a/XYjvAl8 Coco 1 S-Video Circuit, Simplified] (requires disabling RF) Convert to Composite by adding a 470pf capacitor between the yellow and blue lines and replace the S-Video connector with an RCA connector with center connector on the yellow side of the new capacitor.
*[https://imgur.com/a/Pu7vdHB CoCo 1 and 2 S-Video and Composite Out Circuit]
*[https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1iawKo8rM3PNL5g4nWRu-KFlnn0n_WJ4P CoCo 2 S-Video and Composite Out Circuit]
*[https://imgur.com/TIrk3AE CoCo 1 or 2 YPbPr/YUV Component Out Circuit]
*[https://hackaday.io/project/7366-coco-3-rgb-to-scart-to-hdmi-cable CoCo 3 RGB -> SCART] Use with a SCART to HDMI adapter.

=== Current Solutions to Purchase ===
*[[Video without RF Box]] Use existing RF out on your CoCo 1, 2, or 3 into your TV tuner.
*[https://github.com/hoglet67/RGBtoHDMI RGBtoHDMI] Requires Pi Zero, RGBtoHDMI hat board, and Analog board. Mostly used with CoCo 1s and 2s, but can also be used for PAL CoCo3s to simulate NTSC artifact colors.

==== CoCo 1 or 2 Only ====
Note that these CoCo 1 and 2 solutions require installation.
*[http://cocovga.com/ CoCoVGA for CoCo 1, 2, MC-10, Dragon] A FPGA-based solution that outputs VGA.
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gc_3TPBjFf4 CocoDV for Coco 1 or 2] An FPGA-based solution that plugs into the MC6847 Video Display Generator IC socket on the board and provides HDMI video. Also adds extra functionality like sprites and fonts. Order via email from AC-8 Bit Zone.
*[https://thezippsterzone.com/video-adapters/ Composite Video Out boards for CoCo 2]

==== CoCo 3 Only ====
*[https://thezippsterzone.com/2019/03/27/gime-x/ GIME-X for CoCo 3] Replace your GIME chip with this FPGA-based solution that adds VGA output. Also has even more video modes and allows overclocking the CoCo.
*[https://thezippsterzone.com/video-adapters/ RGB2NTSC] CoCo3 to (a better) Composite and S-Video
*[https://cocoman.onlineweb.shop/details/p7004829_20319861.aspx Switch-a-roo CoCo3 to SCART cable] Use with a SCART to HDMI adapter.

== Light Controller ==
*[[X10 Lighting Control]]
*[[Remote Command Controller 26-1182]]

== Mods & Hacking ==
*[[CoCo Turbo Light]]
*[[DCModem to RS232 Pak]]
*[[Disk Drive power LED]]
*[[CoCo repack in PC]]
*[[Speech & Sound Pack Modification for High Speed]]
*[[CoCoEPROMpak]] Schematic board
*[[Fahrfall]] New Game Cartridge and pak
*[https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2247877/ Nowhereman999's Color Computer 3D printable Raspberry Pi case]

[[Category:Hardware]]

Talk:Dragon

2025-05-30T03:35:07Z

Carney: Created page with "Ha, found a December 1983 magazine that, in a rumor article discussing the Apple II, said ([https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Poptronics/80s/1983/CE-1983-12r.pdf see page 24]): ''Another Apple-II compatible machine, called the "Dragon," that has been widely sold in Europe, is expected to be marketed soon in this country by Tano Corp., New Orleans, LA. The price is expected to be $400 less than that of the Apple IIe.'' Talk about garbled information! :D ~~~~"

Ha, found a December 1983 magazine that, in a rumor article discussing the Apple II, said ([https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Poptronics/80s/1983/CE-1983-12r.pdf see page 24]):

''Another Apple-II compatible machine, called the "Dragon," that has been widely sold in Europe, is expected to be marketed soon in this country by Tano Corp., New Orleans, LA. The price is expected to be $400 less than that of the Apple IIe.''

Talk about garbled information! :D

[[User:Carney|Carney]] ([[User talk:Carney|talk]]) 03:35, 30 May 2025 (UTC)

Hardware

2025-05-27T03:23:18Z

Carney: /* Bus Expander */

{{NavHardware}}
==Hardware design and integrated circuits==
Internally the CoCo 1 and CoCo 2 models are functionally identical. The core of the system is virtually identical to the reference design included in the Motorola MC6883 data sheet and consists of five LSI chips:

*MC6809E [[Microprocessor Unit]] (MPU)
*MC6883/SN74LS783/SN74LS785 [[Synchronous Address Multiplexer]] (SAM)
*MC6847 [[Video Display Generator]] (VDG)
*Two [[Peripheral Interface Adapters]] (PIA), either MC6821 or MC6822 chips

==Audio Digitizers==
*[[Delta Pro]]
*[[Max Sound]] - GimeSoft's audio recorder that used the joystick port.

==Audio Output Devices==
*[[Orchestra-90 CC (26-3143)]] - Software Affair Stereo Music Synthesizer DAC recreated by Zippster as the [[CoCoDAC-16]]
*[[Speech/Sound Cartridge (26-3144A)]] - General Instruments Music and Speech Synthesizer AY3-8913 Programmable Sound Generator (PSG) and an SPO256-AL2 Narrator Speech Processor
*[[Symphony-12]] - Speech Systems' 4 x AY-3-8912 PSG for 12 channel sound, recreated as the [[Philharmonic-12]]
*[[Game Master Cart]] - RetroTinker's Flash ROM and SN76489AN Digital Complex Sound Generator (DCSG)
*[[CoCo PSG]] - Zippster's YM-2149 Software-controlled Sound Generator (SSG)
*[[MEGA mini MPI]] - Zippster's YM-262F OPL3 FM Synthesizer
*[[The Voice]] - Speech Systems' Speech Synthesizer with the Votrax SC-01
*[[Super Voice]] - Speech Systems' Speech Synthesizer device that could sing with a Votrax SC-02 / SSI 263A
*[[Real Talker]] - Colorware Voice Synthesizer with the Votrax SC-01

==Bus Expander==
*[[Multi-Pak|Tandy Multipak (26-3024)]]
*[[Multi-Pak|Tandy Multipak (26-3124)]]
*[[Colorburst|Colorburst By Maxsys]]
*[[Howard Medical Slotpak]]
*[[Orion Technologies XPort]]
*[[CoNect Xpander]]
*[[CoNect Y Box]]
*[[Y-Cable]]
*[[Solderless Proto Board]]
*Basic Technology
**BT-1000 [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1983-02/page/n27/mode/2up Feb 1982 ''Rainbow'' ad]
**BT-2000
**BT Companion [https://archive.org/details/color-computer-magazine-1984-01/page/n29/mode/2up?view=theater Jan 84 ''TCM'' ad ]

==Computers & Clones==
*[[TRS-80 Color Computers]] (A list of all available models)
*[[Dragon]]
*[[MC-10_Micro_Color_Computer|MC-10 Micro Color Computer]]
*[[CP400]]
*[[TDP-100]]
*[[LZ Color64]] Brazilian clone
*[[Dynacom MX-1600]] Brazilian clone

==Tandy/Radio Shack Tape Drive Systems==
*[[CTR-80A]]
*[[CCR-81 (26-1208)]]
*[[CCR-82]]
*[[CCR-83]]

=== Other Tape Drive Systems ===
*[[Exatron Stringy Floppy]]

== Floppy Disk Controllers ==

* [[Other Floppy Disk]] - notes and information about the CoCo FD controllers

=== Tandy/Radio Shack floppy disk controllers ===
* [[26-3022]]
* [[26-3029]]
* [[FD-500 (26-3129)]]
* [[FD-501 (26-3131)]]
* [[FD-502 (26-3133)]]

=== Third party floppy disk controllers ===
* [[SDC Floppy Emulator]]
* [[Disto Super Disk Controller]]
* [[Disto Super Disk Controller II]]
* [[Disto Mini Controller]]
* [[J&M/Owl-Ware]]
* [[Hard Drive Specialists]]
* [[Sardis Technologies 'no-halt' Controller]]

=== Hacking floppy disk ===
*[[Hacking Disk]] 40, 80 Track, 2 Sides
*[[26-3029 CoCo Disk Controller High Density Modifications]] - ([http://users.digitalindigo.net/~techno/coco_floppy.html source])

=== Alternate floppy disk controller ROMs ===
*[[ADOS/ADOS-3]]
*[[RGBDOS]]
*[[JDOS]]
*[[MYDOS]]
*[[CDOS]]
*[[OWLDOS]]
*[[HDB-DOS]]

==Hard Drive Controllers==
* [[Disto Hard Disk II Adapter]]
*[[Tandy Hard Drive Controller]]
* [[CoCo XT]] / CoCo XT-RTC by [[Burke & Burke]]
*[[KenTon]] - SCSI
*[[Gleside IDE Interface]]
*[[Cloud-9 SuperIDE Interface]]
*[[Cloud-9 TC^3 SCSI Interface]]
*[[Owl-Ware]]

==Input Devices==

[[Joysticks]]
[[Paddles]]

=== Tandy / Radio Shack ===
*[[Joystick]]
*[[Deluxe Joystick]]
*[[Color Mouse]] (1 Button)
*[[Deluxe Color Mouse]] (2 button)
*[[Tandy Hi-Res Joystick Adapter]]
*[[Pistol Grip Joystick]]
*[[X-Pad]]
*Archer Cat. No. 270-9207. With both a Tandy 6-pin DIN and an IBM PC 15-pin connector, plus a "Tandy/IBM" switch on underside.

=== Third party ===
*[[CoCo-150]] - Flight Sim Yoke, Alban Scientific, [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1985-02/page/n273/mode/2up ''The Rainbow'' Feb 1985]
*[[The Glove]]
*[[Le Stick]]
*[[Wico Deluxe Joystick]]
*[[WICO Computer Command Trackball]]
*[[WICO Computer Command Analog Joystick]]
*[[HJL-57 upgrade Keyboard]]
*[[HJL NumberJack]] numeric keypad
*[[Koala Pad]]
*[[Diecom Light Phaser Interface]]
*[[Comrex ComMander Deluxe]]
*[[Altai DR-2B]]
*[[Spectrum Mach II Joystick]]
*[[Spectrum Paddle]]
*[[Spectrum Stick]]
*[[MAXX Flight Control Yoke]] - [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/cm1991_software_buyers_guide.html?fb3d-page=71| 1991 Software Buyers Guide p. 71] listed it as CoCo compatible. Cat. No. 900-2176
*[[Advanced Gravis Mark VI Competition Joystick]] - [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1991_rsc-22.html?fb3d-page=38| RSC-22 p.38] listed Tandy-specific version Cat. No. 900-2380, also advertised in ''The Rainbow'' starting around Feb 1989.
*[[Endicott Joystick]]
*[[JARB Dual Joystick Unit]]. "Single unit assembly enhances playability of multi-joystick/player games; convenient press-to-fire buttons." [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1982-11/page/n69/mode/2up Ad in November 1982 ''Rainbow'' p. 71]

=== Accessories ===
*[[Atari to CoCo Joystick Adapter]]
*[[Colorware Super Hi-Res Interface]]
*[[Hawksoft Dual Hi-Res Joystick Adapter]]
*[[Puppo Keyboard Adapter]]
*[[OWL Keyboard Adapter]]
*[[Cloud-9 AT Keyboard Adapter]]
*[[Joy-Mouse Interface]] - Adapter from Micro-Labs allowing a [[Joysticks|CoCo-standard joystick]] to connect to a TRS-80 Model III or 4.

==Memory Upgrades==
*[[Tandy 512K Upgrade]]
*[[Performance Peripherals 512K Upgrade]]
*[[Cloud-9 Triad 512K SRAM Upgrade]]
*[[Boyson Tech Boomerang 512K Upgrade]]
*[[Disto 512K Upgrade]]
*[[Disto 1MB Upgrade]]
*[[Disto 2MB Upgrade]]

==MIDI Interfaces==
*[[CoCo MIDI]]
*[[MIDI Maestro]] and [[MIDI Maestro+]]

== Monitors and displays ==

* Radio Shack
** 26-3010 - [[TRS-80 Color Video Receiver]] introduced in the [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1981_rsc-04.html?fb3d-page=30 1981 Radio Shack Computer Catalog RSC-4] and the [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1981_radioshack_catalog.html?fb3d-page=174 1981 Radio Shack main catalog].
** 16-230 - 13" color TV, model number TC-130. Introduced in [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1983_radioshack_catalog.html?fb3d-page=154| the 1983 general Radio Shack catalog], and shown as the CoCo's display in [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1983_radioshack_catalog.html?fb3d-page=184 that same catalog's back cover]. Also shown on [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1983_rsc-08.html?fb3d-page=01| the cover of 1983's Radio Shack Computer Catalog RSC-8] and [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1983_rsc-08.html?fb3d-page=31 once in the CoCo section] where the Color Video Receiver was still more prominent. Not fully shown in the interior of an RSC [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1983_rsc-09.html?fb3d-page=46| until RSC-9 later in 1983].
** 16-231 - a 13" TV. Introduced in the [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1985_radioshack_catalog.html?fb3d-page=104 1985 Radio Shack main catalog]. Shown as the display [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1985_radioshack_catalog.html?fb3d-page=164| in the CoCo's listing in that same catalog] as well as (in 1985's RSC-12 Computer Catalog) on both [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1985_rsc-12.html?fb3d-page=01 the cover] and [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1985_rsc-12.html??fb3d-page=50 the CoCo's own listings].
** 16-232 - a 13" TV/Video Monitor. Introduced in the [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1986_radioshack_catalog.html?fb3d-page=89 1986 Radio Shack main catalog]. Shown as the display in [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1986_radioshack_catalog.html?fb3d-page=166 the CoCo's listing in that same catalog] as well as in [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1986_rsc-15.html?fb3d-page=42 1986's Radio Shack Computer Catalog RSC-15].
** 16-233 - a 13" TV, model number TC-171. Introduced in the [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1988_radioshack_catalog.html?fb3d-page=99 1988 Radio Shack main catalog]. Also shown as the display [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1988_radioshack_catalog.html?fb3d-page=162| in the CoCo 2's listing in that same catalog] and in [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1988_rsc-19.html?fb3d-page=26 1988's Radio Shack Computer Catalog RSC-19].
** 16-288 - a 13" TV/monitor, model number TC-194. Postdates the CoCo [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1996_radioshack_catalog.html?fb3d-page=100 (1996 main catalog)] but a Radio Shack branded tabletop CRT.
** 16-246 - a 9" TV/monitor. Postdates the CoCo [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1996_radioshack_catalog.html?fb3d-page=100 (1996 main catalog)] but a Radio Shack branded tabletop CRT. Also suitable for the [[MC-10]]?
** 16-289 - a 13" TV/monitor, model number TC-195. Postdates the CoCo [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1997_radioshack_catalog.html?fb3d-page=124 (1997 main catalog)] but a Radio Shack branded tabletop CRT.
* Tandy
** 26-3512 [[CM-8]] Specifically made for the CoCo 3. Affordable but no composite input, thus many CoCo 1/2 programs would show in black-and-white.
** 25-8056 [[RGB-11]] [https://colorcomputerarchive.com/repo/Documents/Manuals/Hardware/RGB-11%20Color%20Monitor.pdf Listed in the Color Computer Archive]. Perhaps only for composite input use rather than RGB.
** 26-3211 [[VM-2]] Monochrome (green-screen) composite. Had "Tandy TRS-80" branding; part of the brief attempt to hold on to "TRS-80" while still moving to "Tandy" instead of "Radio Shack". Introduced in [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1985_rsc-14.html?fb3d-page=4 RSC-14 in 1985]; intended for the Tandy 1000 and the Model 100's Disk/Video Interface rather than the CoCo, but when the CoCo 3 complete with composite port came along two years later, it could be an inexpensive option for those intending their CoCos for productivity, telecom, text adventures, and monochrome graphical games like [[Dungeons of Daggorath|Daggorath]] and [[Project Nebula|Nebula]], and wanted the higher resolution than a TV could provide.
** 25-1020 [[VM-4]] Successor of the VM-2. Introduced in [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1987_rsc-17.html?fb3d-page=10 RSC-17]. Mentioned by [[Marty Goodman]] as being [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1987-08/page/n71/mode/2up "perfectly compatible" with the CoCo 3] - but, again, being monochrome, was not ideal for most games or graphics. Perhaps any monochrome composite monitor would work.

* Magnavox
**[[8CM505]]
**[[8CM643]]
**[[8CM515]] - Analog RGB and composite color. The August [[Rainbow_Magazine_1987|1987]] ''[[Rainbow]]'' ran a [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1987-08/page/n141/mode/2up favorable review by Ed Ellers (p.140-141)] and a [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1987-08/page/n71/mode/2up recommendation from Marty Goodman (pp. 70,73,75)]. [[Cloud-9]] [http://www.frontiernet.net/~mmarlette/Cloud-9/Hardware/Video%20Cables.html still offers a CoCo 3 adapter cable].
**[[1CM135]] - Replaced the 8CM515, adding stereo sound input, Commodore-style S-Video with chorma-luma input, and CGA RGB. [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1991-03/page/n13/mode/2up?q=8cm515 Recommended by Marty Goodman in the March 1991 ''Rainbow''.]
* Sony
**[[KV-1311CR]]. Howard Medical Computers and [[Spectrum Projects]] sold CoCo 3 cables for the analog RGB connection.
**[[KX-1211HG]]

* Teknika
**MJ305 [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1987-01/page/n92/mode/1up]

*[[15KHz SVGA Monitors]]

==Arithmetic Processor Units==
*[https://github.com/barberd/coco9511pak CoCo AM9511 Pak]

==Multi Devices==
These are items that serve more than one purpose, such as Cloud-9's SuperBoard.
*[[SuperBoard]]
*[[FHL Eliminator]]
*[[Disto MEB]]

==Printers==
*[[CoCo Printers]]

==RS232 Devices==
*[[Deluxe RS232 Pak]]
*[[Direct Connect Modem Pak]]
*[[Orion Technologies RS232 Pak]]
*[[Disto RS232 Pak]]
*[[PBJ Dual Serial Port Pak]]
*[[Kenton Dual Serial Port Pak]]
*[[Quad Serial Port Pak]] - Who made this?
*[[CoCoPro! RS232 Pak]]
*[[CoNect Dual RS232 Pak]]
*[[CoNect RS232 Pak]]
*[[CoNect 16550 Pak]] - what is the official name?
*[[Metric Model 101p Serial to Parallel Converter]]
*[[Dayton Industries Blue Streak Ultima Serial to Parallel Converter]]
*[https://github.com/barberd/cocousbserial CoCo USB Serial Pak]

==Video Digitizers==
*[[Rascan]]
*[[DS-69 Digisector]]

== Video Out==
=== Historical Solutions ===
*[[PBJ Wordpak/Wordpak II]]
*[[Lucas Industries 2000 AutoDim]]
*[[RGB to VGA Converter]]
*[[CoCo 3 RGB to CGA/EGA Adapter]]

=== Build it yourself ===
*[[CoCo 1 Monochrome Video]]
*[[CoCo 1 composite video]]
*[https://imgur.com/a/XYjvAl8 Coco 1 S-Video Circuit, Simplified] (requires disabling RF) Convert to Composite by adding a 470pf capacitor between the yellow and blue lines and replace the S-Video connector with an RCA connector with center connector on the yellow side of the new capacitor.
*[https://imgur.com/a/Pu7vdHB CoCo 1 and 2 S-Video and Composite Out Circuit]
*[https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1iawKo8rM3PNL5g4nWRu-KFlnn0n_WJ4P CoCo 2 S-Video and Composite Out Circuit]
*[https://imgur.com/TIrk3AE CoCo 1 or 2 YPbPr/YUV Component Out Circuit]
*[https://hackaday.io/project/7366-coco-3-rgb-to-scart-to-hdmi-cable CoCo 3 RGB -> SCART] Use with a SCART to HDMI adapter.

=== Current Solutions to Purchase ===
*[[Video without RF Box]] Use existing RF out on your CoCo 1, 2, or 3 into your TV tuner.
*[https://github.com/hoglet67/RGBtoHDMI RGBtoHDMI] Requires Pi Zero, RGBtoHDMI hat board, and Analog board. Mostly used with CoCo 1s and 2s, but can also be used for PAL CoCo3s to simulate NTSC artifact colors.

==== CoCo 1 or 2 Only ====
Note that these CoCo 1 and 2 solutions require installation.
*[http://cocovga.com/ CoCoVGA for CoCo 1, 2, MC-10, Dragon] A FPGA-based solution that outputs VGA.
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gc_3TPBjFf4 CocoDV for Coco 1 or 2] An FPGA-based solution that plugs into the MC6847 Video Display Generator IC socket on the board and provides HDMI video. Also adds extra functionality like sprites and fonts. Order via email from AC-8 Bit Zone.
*[https://thezippsterzone.com/video-adapters/ Composite Video Out boards for CoCo 2]

==== CoCo 3 Only ====
*[https://thezippsterzone.com/2019/03/27/gime-x/ GIME-X for CoCo 3] Replace your GIME chip with this FPGA-based solution that adds VGA output. Also has even more video modes and allows overclocking the CoCo.
*[https://thezippsterzone.com/video-adapters/ RGB2NTSC] CoCo3 to (a better) Composite and S-Video
*[https://cocoman.onlineweb.shop/details/p7004829_20319861.aspx Switch-a-roo CoCo3 to SCART cable] Use with a SCART to HDMI adapter.

== Light Controller ==
*[[X10 Lighting Control]]
*[[Remote Command Controller 26-1182]]

== Mods & Hacking ==
*[[CoCo Turbo Light]]
*[[DCModem to RS232 Pak]]
*[[Disk Drive power LED]]
*[[CoCo repack in PC]]
*[[Speech & Sound Pack Modification for High Speed]]
*[[CoCoEPROMpak]] Schematic board
*[[Fahrfall]] New Game Cartridge and pak
*[https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2247877/ Nowhereman999's Color Computer 3D printable Raspberry Pi case]

[[Category:Hardware]]

Spectrum Stick

2025-05-27T02:55:56Z

Carney: fixed URL

{{NavHardware}}
[[File:Spectrum Stick.jpg|thumb]]
[[Category:Hardware]]
[[Category:Joysticks]]

Sold by [[Spectrum Projects]].

From [https://archive.org/details/198210Rainbow/page/n111/mode/2up ''The Rainbow'''s October 1982 review by Jim Reed]:

{| class="wikitable"
|-
| If “feel" is your thing, like it is ours, then the new ''Spectrum Stick'' of all those on the market, is the one to reach for. The handle is big and, while it moves easily and smoothly in action, it’s “tighter" and more like the arcade joysticks than anything we've yet encountered. The fire button has a good strong spring, too.

The box is a big one, perhaps more than very small hands could handle without setting it on a table or other surface, but a treat for those of us who feel more in command with a good-sized (6x3) control box in our grip.

Too bad it isn’t a bit heavier. Our only complaint with the ''Spectrum Stick'' is that it is a bit lightweight in construction, although an accidental drop on a concrete floor caused not so much as a scratch.

A valuable added feature of the Spectrum Stick is a handy LED on/ off indicator. We’ve found that it's a useful reminder to turn off the computer when you're shutting down for the night. Too bad the 80C doesn't have one built in. While we like the size of the ''Spectrum Stick'', its bulk could cause a minor problem in where to store it, but the top of the TV works well for us — and lets us use the “on/ off" LEDS, too. In case you are looking for some other storage area, the ''Spectrum Stick'' comes with an extra-long, nine-foot cable. And speaking of cable, we found that the cable is resistant to tangling.

[...] Personally, we like the “feel" and added features of the ''Spectrum Stick'', the “firmest" movement we’ve found to date.
|}

[https://archive.org/details/CreativeComputingbetterScan198302/page/n124/mode/1up ''Creative Computing'''s February 1983 review by David H. Ahl] was more ambivalent:

{| class="wikitable"
|-
|
The joystick movement is considerably stiffer than the original, and is about the same as the stiffest of the nine Apple joysticks we tested in 1982. As we noted in that evaluation, stiffness is a subjective factor. Personally, I find the original equipment Color Computer joysticks much too loose; on the other hand, I find the Spectrum Stick a bit too stiff for my liking.

The pushbutton, too, requires much more pressure than the one on the original equipment joystick. This also is a subjective factor; some people like a stiffer button.

Subjective factors aside, both the joystick and pushbutton should have a considerably longer life than the Radio Shack unit since they are made of higher quality components. On the other hand, the Spectrum Stick costs $39.95, exactly twice the cost of a Radio Shack Color Computer joystick.
|}

But [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1983-02/page/n5/mode/2up ''Rainbow'' reader John Heinz, in a February 1983 letter to the editor,] was scathing:

{| class="wikitable"
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|
Well to say I am disappointed with it is an understatement. It performs worse than the original Radio Shack joysticks.
|}

Spectrum Stick

2025-05-27T02:55:07Z

Carney: added letter to the other from unhappy user

{{NavHardware}}
[[File:Spectrum Stick.jpg|thumb]]
[[Category:Hardware]]
[[Category:Joysticks]]

Sold by [[Spectrum Projects]].

From [https://archive.org/details/198210Rainbow/page/n111/mode/2up ''The Rainbow'''s October 1982 review by Jim Reed]:

{| class="wikitable"
|-
| If “feel" is your thing, like it is ours, then the new ''Spectrum Stick'' of all those on the market, is the one to reach for. The handle is big and, while it moves easily and smoothly in action, it’s “tighter" and more like the arcade joysticks than anything we've yet encountered. The fire button has a good strong spring, too.

The box is a big one, perhaps more than very small hands could handle without setting it on a table or other surface, but a treat for those of us who feel more in command with a good-sized (6x3) control box in our grip.

Too bad it isn’t a bit heavier. Our only complaint with the ''Spectrum Stick'' is that it is a bit lightweight in construction, although an accidental drop on a concrete floor caused not so much as a scratch.

A valuable added feature of the Spectrum Stick is a handy LED on/ off indicator. We’ve found that it's a useful reminder to turn off the computer when you're shutting down for the night. Too bad the 80C doesn't have one built in. While we like the size of the ''Spectrum Stick'', its bulk could cause a minor problem in where to store it, but the top of the TV works well for us — and lets us use the “on/ off" LEDS, too. In case you are looking for some other storage area, the ''Spectrum Stick'' comes with an extra-long, nine-foot cable. And speaking of cable, we found that the cable is resistant to tangling.

[...] Personally, we like the “feel" and added features of the ''Spectrum Stick'', the “firmest" movement we’ve found to date.
|}

[https://archive.org/details/CreativeComputingbetterScan198302/page/n124/mode/1up ''Creative Computing'''s February 1983 review by David H. Ahl] was more ambivalent:

{| class="wikitable"
|-
|
The joystick movement is considerably stiffer than the original, and is about the same as the stiffest of the nine Apple joysticks we tested in 1982. As we noted in that evaluation, stiffness is a subjective factor. Personally, I find the original equipment Color Computer joysticks much too loose; on the other hand, I find the Spectrum Stick a bit too stiff for my liking.

The pushbutton, too, requires much more pressure than the one on the original equipment joystick. This also is a subjective factor; some people like a stiffer button.

Subjective factors aside, both the joystick and pushbutton should have a considerably longer life than the Radio Shack unit since they are made of higher quality components. On the other hand, the Spectrum Stick costs $39.95, exactly twice the cost of a Radio Shack Color Computer joystick.
|}

But [https://archive.org/details/CreativeComputingbetterScan198302/page/n124/mode/1up ''Rainbow'' reader John Heinz, in a February 1983 letter to the editor,] was scathing:

{| class="wikitable"
|-
|
Well to say I am disappointed with it is an understatement. It performs worse than the original Radio Shack joysticks.
|}

Joysticks

2025-05-16T02:13:07Z

Carney: added OGHUGO

{{NavHardware}}

CoCo users used two main joystick types: CoCo-native joysticks and (via adapters) joysticks intended for Atari and other machines that used Atari-compatible joystick ports. The market for Atari-compatible joysticks (and the adapters to use them) was significant among CoCo owners because of the perceived shortcomings of the original standard CoCo joystick - the "Black Beauty".

CoCo-native joysticks came in two generations: those that had 5-pin DIN connectors (and thus could support only one fire button), and those that had six-pin DIN connectors (and could support two fire buttons). As a way to ease the transition it wanted CoCo owners to make to its line of "IBM-Compatible" MS-DOS computers, and as a way to create an exclusive accessory market for itself, Tandy made its 1000-series PCs have CoCo-style joystick ports and able to use CoCo joysticks. But because those joysticks were not specifically labeled as such, many Tandy 1000 owners who picked up a joystick for their PC at their local Radio Shack were no doubt oblivious to the fact that they had just bought CoCo joysticks!

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ List of Joysticks
|-
! Name !! Cat. No.* !! Brand !! Buttons !! Stick Type !! First Ad !! Year !! Price !! Notes
|-
| [[Joystick]] || 26-3008 || Radio Shack || style="text-align:center;"|1 || Loose. Metal, then plastic || || || || "Black Beauty", sold in pairs
|-
| Joystick || 26-3008 || Tandy || style="text-align:center;"|1 || Loose. Plastic || || || || "Black Beauty", sold in pairs
|-
| Joystick || 10-1200 || TDP || style="text-align:center;"|1 || Loose. Plastic || || || || "Black Beauty", sold in pairs
|-
| [[Deluxe Joystick]] || 26-3012 || TRS-80 || style="text-align:center;"|1 || Springback/Switchable || || || ||
|-
| Deluxe Joystick || 26-3012 || Tandy || style="text-align:center;"|2 || Springback/Switchable || || || ||
|-
| Pistol Grip Joystick || 26-3123 || Tandy || style="text-align:center;"|2* || Springback || || || || *2 on stick, 2 on base
|-
| CoCo-150 Flight Sim Yoke || || Alban Scientific || || || [https://archive.org/details/198504Rainbow/page/n191/mode/1up ''Rainbow'' Apr 85] || 1985 || 49.95 ||
|-
| [[ComMander Deluxe]] || || Comrex || style="text-align:center;"|2* || || || 1988 || 29.95 || *2 on right, 2 on left
|-
| Altai Joystick || DR-2B || Altai || || || || || ||
|-
| [[Mach II]] || || Hayes || || || || || ||
|-
| [[Spectrum Stick]] || || [[Spectrum Projects]] || || || [https://archive.org/details/198209Rainbow/page/n96/mode/1up ''Rainbow'' Sept 82] || 1982 || 39.95 ||
|-
https://archive.org/details/color-computer-magazine-1983-10/page/n119/mode/2up
| Saturn Joystick || || Saturn Electronics || || || [https://archive.org/details/color-computer-magazine-1983-10/page/n119/mode/2up ''TCCM'' Oct 83] || 1983 || 15 ||
|-
| MAXX Flight Control Yoke || 900-2176 || MAXX || style="text-align:center;"|2 || || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/cm1991_software_buyers_guide.html?fb3d-page=71%7C ''1991 Software Buyers Guide'' p. 71] || 1991 || 99.95 ||
|-
| [[Advanced Gravis Mark VI Competition Joystick|Mark VI Competition Joystick]] || 900-2380 || Advanced Gravis || || || [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1989-03/page/n15/mode/2up ''Rainbow'' March 89] || 1989 || 59.95 ||
|-
| [[Endicott Joystick]] || || Endicott || || || [https://archive.org/details/198210Rainbow/page/n21/mode/2up?q=endicott ''Rainbow'' Oct 82] || 1982 || 18.95 ||
|-
| [[JARB Dual Joystick Unit]] || || JARB || || || || || ||
|-
| [[PBH Joystick]] || || PBH || style="text-align:center;"|1 || || [https://archive.org/details/manualzilla-id-5648057/page/n113/mode/1up ''HOT CoCo'' Jun 84] || 1984 || 49.95 || "Only the fire button moves!"
|-
|PBH Cordless Joystick|| || PBH || || || [https://archive.org/details/manualzilla-id-5648057/page/n113/mode/1up ''HOT CoCo'' Jun 84] || 1984 || 99.95 || "Coming Soon!"
|-
| || 270-9207 || Archer || style="text-align:center;"|2 || Springback/Switchable || || || || Tandy/IBM ports, switch select
|-
| || || TechDungeon || style="text-align:center;"|2 || Ball on springback short stick || [https://www.etsy.com/listing/1688549403/tandy-color-computer-123-tandy-1000?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=tandy&ref=sr_gallery-1-1&frs=1&sts=1&search_preloaded_img=1&organic_search_click=1 TechDungeon Etsy store] [https://web.archive.org/web/20240320210419/https://www.etsy.com/listing/1688549403/tandy-color-computer-123-tandy-1000?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=tandy&ref=sr_gallery-1-1&frs=1&sts=1&search_preloaded_img=1&organic_search_click=1 Archive]|| 2024 || 49.50 || New/current, Sanwa-style, red or black
|-
| || || BT RetroMods || style="text-align:center;"|2 || Ball on springback short stick || [https://www.etsy.com/listing/1728017284/tandy-custom-arcade-style-controller Etsy store]|| 2024 || 79.95 || Many button/ball color options
|-
| || || OGHUGO || style="text-align:center;"|2 || Ball on springback short stick || [https://www.ebay.com/itm/176815004817 eBay store] || 2025 || 54.95 || CoCo-style color scheme
|-
|}
=Feature Articles=

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Y=Year, M=Month, P=Page
|-
! Title !! Device / ''Program'' !! Author !! Magazine !! Y !! M !! P
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/manualzilla-id-5764309/page/26/mode/2up Build Your Own Joystick]'' || DIY || Lalo Martinez || ''[[HOT CoCo]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|85 || style="text-align:center;"|02 || style="text-align:right;"|26
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1985-08/page/n223/mode/2up The Joystick Fix-It]'' || [[Joystick|Radio Shack Joystick]], ''Stik Fix'' || John G. Williams || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|85 || style="text-align:center;"|08 || style="text-align:right;"|226
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1986-08/page/n109/mode/2up The Old Switcheroo]'' || DIY Joystick Switchbox || Mark Haverstock || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|86 || style="text-align:center;"|08 || style="text-align:right;"|108
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1986-08/page/n117/mode/2up The Quick Joystick Fix]'' || [[Deluxe Joystick]] || Bruce W. Goshorn || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|86 || style="text-align:center;"|08 || style="text-align:right;"|116
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1987-08/page/n91/mode/2up Joy for Joysticks]'' || ''Joystick Check-Out'' || Richard S. Ellis || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|87 || style="text-align:center;"|08 || style="text-align:right;"|91
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1988-08/page/n121/mode/2up The Old Switcheroo II]'' || [[High-Res Joystick Interface]], DIY Joystick Switchbox || Mark Haverstock || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|88 || style="text-align:center;"|08 || style="text-align:right;"|120
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1993-03 Are Your Joysticks Dead or Alive?]'' || ''Joystick Checker'' || Trevor Boehm || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|93 || style="text-align:center;"|03 || style="text-align:right;"|01
|-
|}

=Reviews=

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Y=Year, M=Month, P=Page

|-
! Title !! Joystick(s) !! Author !! Magazine !! Y !! M !! P
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1982-08/page/n24/mode/1up This Joystick Package is First Rate]'' || [[JARB Dual Joystick Unit]] || || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|82 || style="text-align:center;"|08 || style="text-align:right;"|25
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/198210Rainbow/page/n111/mode/2up Two New Joysticks Are Big Improvement]'' || [[Spectrum Stick]], [[Endicott Joystick]] || Jim Reed || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|82 || style="text-align:center;"|10 || style="text-align:right;"|112
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/CreativeComputingbetterScan198302/page/n124/mode/1up Spectrum Stick: Color Computer Joystick]'' || [[Spectrum Stick]] || David H. Ahl || ''Creative Computing'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|02 || style="text-align:right;"|127
|-
| ''[https://colorcomputerarchive.com/repo/Documents/Magazines/80%20Micro/1983/80%20Micro%20-%208303%20-%20March%201983.pdf Review]'' || [[Kraft Joystick|Kraft]], [[Joystick|Radio Shack]], [[Wico CoCo Joystick|Wico]], [[Spectrum Stick|Spectrum]], [[Endicott Joystick|Endicott]], [[JARB Dual Joystick Unit|JARB]] || Carlos Calle || ''[[80 Micro]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|03 || style="text-align:right;"|53
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/Dragon_User_1983-06_Sunshine_Books_GB/page/n15/mode/2up Jockeying to be the First in the Joystick Race]'' || Dragon Data, [[Joystick|Radio Shack]], Microdeal/Midwich/Clare, Talon, Dragon Dungeon, Cascom || Clive Gifford || ''[[Dragon User]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|06 || style="text-align:right;"|17
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1984-11/page/n245/mode/1up Hayes Mach II Joystick Is A First-Class Performer]'' || [[Mach II]] || Ed Ellers || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|11 || style="text-align:right;"|244
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1986-08/page/n151/mode/2up A2D Deluxe Joystick: What More Could You Ask?]'' || Cinsoft [[A2D Deluxe Joystick]] || Stanley Townsend || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|86 || style="text-align:center;"|08 || style="text-align:right;"|150
|-
|}

Hardware

2025-02-15T20:08:47Z

Carney: /* Monitors and displays */

{{NavHardware}}
==Hardware design and integrated circuits==
Internally the CoCo 1 and CoCo 2 models are functionally identical. The core of the system is virtually identical to the reference design included in the Motorola MC6883 data sheet and consists of five LSI chips:

*MC6809E [[Microprocessor Unit]] (MPU)
*MC6883/SN74LS783/SN74LS785 [[Synchronous Address Multiplexer]] (SAM)
*MC6847 [[Video Display Generator]] (VDG)
*Two [[Peripheral Interface Adapters]] (PIA), either MC6821 or MC6822 chips

==Audio Digitizers==
*[[Delta Pro]]
*[[Max Sound]] - GimeSoft's audio recorder that used the joystick port.

==Audio Output Devices==
*[[Orchestra-90 CC (26-3143)]] - Software Affair Stereo Music Synthesizer DAC recreated by Zippster as the [[CoCoDAC-16]]
*[[Speech/Sound Cartridge (26-3144A)]] - General Instruments Music and Speech Synthesizer AY3-8913 Programmable Sound Generator (PSG) and an SPO256-AL2 Narrator Speech Processor
*[[Symphony-12]] - Speech Systems' 4 x AY-3-8912 PSG for 12 channel sound, recreated as the [[Philharmonic-12]]
*[[Game Master Cart]] - RetroTinker's Flash ROM and SN76489AN Digital Complex Sound Generator (DCSG)
*[[CoCo PSG]] - Zippster's YM-2149 Software-controlled Sound Generator (SSG)
*[[MEGA mini MPI]] - Zippster's YM-262F OPL3 FM Synthesizer
*[[The Voice]] - Speech Systems' Speech Synthesizer with the Votrax SC-01
*[[Super Voice]] - Speech Systems' Speech Synthesizer device that could sing with a Votrax SC-02 / SSI 263A
*[[Real Talker]] - Colorware Voice Synthesizer with the Votrax SC-01

==Bus Expander==
*[[Multi-Pak|Tandy Multipak (26-3024)]]
*[[Multi-Pak|Tandy Multipak (26-3124)]]
*[[Colorburst|Colorburst By Maxsys]]
*[[Howard Medical Slotpak]]
*[[Orion Technologies XPort]]
*[[CoNect Xpander]]
*[[CoNect Y Box]]
*[[Y-Cable]]
*[[Solderless Proto Board]]
*Basic Technology [[BT Companion]][https://archive.org/details/color-computer-magazine-1984-01/page/n29/mode/2up?view=theater]

==Computers & Clones==
*[[TRS-80 Color Computers]] (A list of all available models)
*[[Dragon]]
*[[MC-10_Micro_Color_Computer|MC-10 Micro Color Computer]]
*[[CP400]]
*[[TDP-100]]
*[[LZ Color64]] Brazilian clone
*[[Dynacom MX-1600]] Brazilian clone

==Tandy/Radio Shack Tape Drive Systems==
*[[CTR-80A]]
*[[CCR-81 (26-1208)]]
*[[CCR-82]]
*[[CCR-83]]

=== Other Tape Drive Systems ===
*[[Exatron Stringy Floppy]]

== Floppy Disk Controllers ==

* [[Other Floppy Disk]] - notes and information about the CoCo FD controllers

=== Tandy/Radio Shack floppy disk controllers ===
* [[26-3022]]
* [[26-3029]]
* [[FD-500 (26-3129)]]
* [[FD-501 (26-3131)]]
* [[FD-502 (26-3133)]]

=== Third party floppy disk controllers ===
* [[SDC Floppy Emulator]]
* [[Disto Super Disk Controller]]
* [[Disto Super Disk Controller II]]
* [[Disto Mini Controller]]
* [[J&M/Owl-Ware]]
* [[Hard Drive Specialists]]
* [[Sardis Technologies 'no-halt' Controller]]

=== Hacking floppy disk ===
*[[Hacking Disk]] 40, 80 Track, 2 Sides
*[[26-3029 CoCo Disk Controller High Density Modifications]] - ([http://users.digitalindigo.net/~techno/coco_floppy.html source])

=== Alternate floppy disk controller ROMs ===
*[[ADOS/ADOS-3]]
*[[RGBDOS]]
*[[JDOS]]
*[[MYDOS]]
*[[CDOS]]
*[[OWLDOS]]
*[[HDB-DOS]]

==Hard Drive Controllers==
* [[Disto Hard Disk II Adapter]]
*[[Tandy Hard Drive Controller]]
* [[CoCo XT]] / CoCo XT-RTC by [[Burke & Burke]]
*[[KenTon]] - SCSI
*[[Gleside IDE Interface]]
*[[Cloud-9 SuperIDE Interface]]
*[[Cloud-9 TC^3 SCSI Interface]]
*[[Owl-Ware]]

==Input Devices==

[[Joysticks]]
[[Paddles]]

=== Tandy / Radio Shack ===
*[[Joystick]]
*[[Deluxe Joystick]]
*[[Color Mouse]] (1 Button)
*[[Deluxe Color Mouse]] (2 button)
*[[Tandy Hi-Res Joystick Adapter]]
*[[Pistol Grip Joystick]]
*[[X-Pad]]
*Archer Cat. No. 270-9207. With both a Tandy 6-pin DIN and an IBM PC 15-pin connector, plus a "Tandy/IBM" switch on underside.

=== Third party ===
*[[CoCo-150]] - Flight Sim Yoke, Alban Scientific, [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1985-02/page/n273/mode/2up ''The Rainbow'' Feb 1985]
*[[The Glove]]
*[[Le Stick]]
*[[Wico Deluxe Joystick]]
*[[WICO Computer Command Trackball]]
*[[WICO Computer Command Analog Joystick]]
*[[HJL-57 upgrade Keyboard]]
*[[HJL NumberJack]] numeric keypad
*[[Koala Pad]]
*[[Diecom Light Phaser Interface]]
*[[Comrex ComMander Deluxe]]
*[[Altai DR-2B]]
*[[Spectrum Mach II Joystick]]
*[[Spectrum Paddle]]
*[[Spectrum Stick]]
*[[MAXX Flight Control Yoke]] - [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/cm1991_software_buyers_guide.html?fb3d-page=71| 1991 Software Buyers Guide p. 71] listed it as CoCo compatible. Cat. No. 900-2176
*[[Advanced Gravis Mark VI Competition Joystick]] - [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1991_rsc-22.html?fb3d-page=38| RSC-22 p.38] listed Tandy-specific version Cat. No. 900-2380, also advertised in ''The Rainbow'' starting around Feb 1989.
*[[Endicott Joystick]]
*[[JARB Dual Joystick Unit]]. "Single unit assembly enhances playability of multi-joystick/player games; convenient press-to-fire buttons." [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1982-11/page/n69/mode/2up Ad in November 1982 ''Rainbow'' p. 71]

=== Accessories ===
*[[Atari to CoCo Joystick Adapter]]
*[[Colorware Super Hi-Res Interface]]
*[[Hawksoft Dual Hi-Res Joystick Adapter]]
*[[Puppo Keyboard Adapter]]
*[[OWL Keyboard Adapter]]
*[[Cloud-9 AT Keyboard Adapter]]
*[[Joy-Mouse Interface]] - Adapter from Micro-Labs allowing a [[Joysticks|CoCo-standard joystick]] to connect to a TRS-80 Model III or 4.

==Memory Upgrades==
*[[Tandy 512K Upgrade]]
*[[Performance Peripherals 512K Upgrade]]
*[[Cloud-9 Triad 512K SRAM Upgrade]]
*[[Boyson Tech Boomerang 512K Upgrade]]
*[[Disto 512K Upgrade]]
*[[Disto 1MB Upgrade]]
*[[Disto 2MB Upgrade]]

==MIDI Interfaces==
*[[CoCo MIDI]]
*[[MIDI Maestro]] and [[MIDI Maestro+]]

== Monitors and displays ==

* Radio Shack
** 26-3010 - [[TRS-80 Color Video Receiver]] introduced in the [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1981_rsc-04.html?fb3d-page=30 1981 Radio Shack Computer Catalog RSC-4] and the [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1981_radioshack_catalog.html?fb3d-page=174 1981 Radio Shack main catalog].
** 16-230 - 13" color TV, model number TC-130. Introduced in [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1983_radioshack_catalog.html?fb3d-page=154| the 1983 general Radio Shack catalog], and shown as the CoCo's display in [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1983_radioshack_catalog.html?fb3d-page=184 that same catalog's back cover]. Also shown on [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1983_rsc-08.html?fb3d-page=01| the cover of 1983's Radio Shack Computer Catalog RSC-8] and [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1983_rsc-08.html?fb3d-page=31 once in the CoCo section] where the Color Video Receiver was still more prominent. Not fully shown in the interior of an RSC [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1983_rsc-09.html?fb3d-page=46| until RSC-9 later in 1983].
** 16-231 - a 13" TV. Introduced in the [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1985_radioshack_catalog.html?fb3d-page=104 1985 Radio Shack main catalog]. Shown as the display [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1985_radioshack_catalog.html?fb3d-page=164| in the CoCo's listing in that same catalog] as well as (in 1985's RSC-12 Computer Catalog) on both [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1985_rsc-12.html?fb3d-page=01 the cover] and [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1985_rsc-12.html??fb3d-page=50 the CoCo's own listings].
** 16-232 - a 13" TV/Video Monitor. Introduced in the [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1986_radioshack_catalog.html?fb3d-page=89 1986 Radio Shack main catalog]. Shown as the display in [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1986_radioshack_catalog.html?fb3d-page=166 the CoCo's listing in that same catalog] as well as in [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1986_rsc-15.html?fb3d-page=42 1986's Radio Shack Computer Catalog RSC-15].
** 16-233 - a 13" TV, model number TC-171. Introduced in the [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1988_radioshack_catalog.html?fb3d-page=99 1988 Radio Shack main catalog]. Also shown as the display [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1988_radioshack_catalog.html?fb3d-page=162| in the CoCo 2's listing in that same catalog] and in [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1988_rsc-19.html?fb3d-page=26 1988's Radio Shack Computer Catalog RSC-19].
** 16-288 - a 13" TV/monitor, model number TC-194. Postdates the CoCo [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1996_radioshack_catalog.html?fb3d-page=100 (1996 main catalog)] but a Radio Shack branded tabletop CRT.
** 16-246 - a 9" TV/monitor. Postdates the CoCo [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1996_radioshack_catalog.html?fb3d-page=100 (1996 main catalog)] but a Radio Shack branded tabletop CRT. Also suitable for the [[MC-10]]?
** 16-289 - a 13" TV/monitor, model number TC-195. Postdates the CoCo [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1997_radioshack_catalog.html?fb3d-page=124 (1997 main catalog)] but a Radio Shack branded tabletop CRT.
* Tandy
** 26-3512 [[CM-8]] Specifically made for the CoCo 3. Affordable but no composite input, thus many CoCo 1/2 programs would show in black-and-white.
** 25-8056 [[RGB-11]] [https://colorcomputerarchive.com/repo/Documents/Manuals/Hardware/RGB-11%20Color%20Monitor.pdf Listed in the Color Computer Archive]. Perhaps only for composite input use rather than RGB.
** 26-3211 [[VM-2]] Monochrome (green-screen) composite. Had "Tandy TRS-80" branding; part of the brief attempt to hold on to "TRS-80" while still moving to "Tandy" instead of "Radio Shack". Introduced in [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1985_rsc-14.html?fb3d-page=4 RSC-14 in 1985]; intended for the Tandy 1000 and the Model 100's Disk/Video Interface rather than the CoCo, but when the CoCo 3 complete with composite port came along two years later, it could be an inexpensive option for those intending their CoCos for productivity, telecom, text adventures, and monochrome graphical games like [[Dungeons of Daggorath|Daggorath]] and [[Project Nebula|Nebula]], and wanted the higher resolution than a TV could provide.
** 25-1020 [[VM-4]] Successor of the VM-2. Introduced in [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1987_rsc-17.html?fb3d-page=10 RSC-17]. Mentioned by [[Marty Goodman]] as being [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1987-08/page/n71/mode/2up "perfectly compatible" with the CoCo 3] - but, again, being monochrome, was not ideal for most games or graphics. Perhaps any monochrome composite monitor would work.

* Magnavox
**[[8CM505]]
**[[8CM643]]
**[[8CM515]] - Analog RGB and composite color. The August [[Rainbow_Magazine_1987|1987]] ''[[Rainbow]]'' ran a [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1987-08/page/n141/mode/2up favorable review by Ed Ellers (p.140-141)] and a [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1987-08/page/n71/mode/2up recommendation from Marty Goodman (pp. 70,73,75)]. [[Cloud-9]] [http://www.frontiernet.net/~mmarlette/Cloud-9/Hardware/Video%20Cables.html still offers a CoCo 3 adapter cable].
**[[1CM135]] - Replaced the 8CM515, adding stereo sound input, Commodore-style S-Video with chorma-luma input, and CGA RGB. [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1991-03/page/n13/mode/2up?q=8cm515 Recommended by Marty Goodman in the March 1991 ''Rainbow''.]
* Sony
**[[KV-1311CR]]. Howard Medical Computers and [[Spectrum Projects]] sold CoCo 3 cables for the analog RGB connection.
**[[KX-1211HG]]

* Teknika
**MJ305 [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1987-01/page/n92/mode/1up]

*[[15KHz SVGA Monitors]]

==Arithmetic Processor Units==
*[https://github.com/barberd/coco9511pak CoCo AM9511 Pak]

==Multi Devices==
These are items that serve more than one purpose, such as Cloud-9's SuperBoard.
*[[SuperBoard]]
*[[FHL Eliminator]]
*[[Disto MEB]]

==Printers==
*[[CoCo Printers]]

==RS232 Devices==
*[[Deluxe RS232 Pak]]
*[[Direct Connect Modem Pak]]
*[[Orion Technologies RS232 Pak]]
*[[Disto RS232 Pak]]
*[[PBJ Dual Serial Port Pak]]
*[[Kenton Dual Serial Port Pak]]
*[[Quad Serial Port Pak]] - Who made this?
*[[CoCoPro! RS232 Pak]]
*[[CoNect Dual RS232 Pak]]
*[[CoNect RS232 Pak]]
*[[CoNect 16550 Pak]] - what is the official name?
*[[Metric Model 101p Serial to Parallel Converter]]
*[[Dayton Industries Blue Streak Ultima Serial to Parallel Converter]]
*[https://github.com/barberd/cocousbserial CoCo USB Serial Pak]

==Video Digitizers==
*[[Rascan]]
*[[DS-69 Digisector]]

== Video Out==
=== Historical Solutions ===
*[[PBJ Wordpak/Wordpak II]]
*[[Lucas Industries 2000 AutoDim]]
*[[RGB to VGA Converter]]
*[[CoCo 3 RGB to CGA/EGA Adapter]]

=== Build it yourself ===
*[[CoCo 1 Monochrome Video]]
*[[CoCo 1 composite video]]
*[https://imgur.com/a/XYjvAl8 Coco 1 S-Video Circuit, Simplified] (requires disabling RF) Convert to Composite by adding a 470pf capacitor between the yellow and blue lines and replace the S-Video connector with an RCA connector with center connector on the yellow side of the new capacitor.
*[https://imgur.com/a/Pu7vdHB CoCo 1 and 2 S-Video and Composite Out Circuit]
*[https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1iawKo8rM3PNL5g4nWRu-KFlnn0n_WJ4P CoCo 2 S-Video and Composite Out Circuit]
*[https://imgur.com/TIrk3AE CoCo 1 or 2 YPbPr/YUV Component Out Circuit]
*[https://hackaday.io/project/7366-coco-3-rgb-to-scart-to-hdmi-cable CoCo 3 RGB -> SCART] Use with a SCART to HDMI adapter.

=== Current Solutions to Purchase ===
*[[Video without RF Box]] Use existing RF out on your CoCo 1, 2, or 3 into your TV tuner.
*[https://github.com/hoglet67/RGBtoHDMI RGBtoHDMI] Requires Pi Zero, RGBtoHDMI hat board, and Analog board. Mostly used with CoCo 1s and 2s, but can also be used for PAL CoCo3s to simulate NTSC artifact colors.

==== CoCo 1 or 2 Only ====
Note that these CoCo 1 and 2 solutions require installation.
*[http://cocovga.com/ CoCoVGA for CoCo 1, 2, MC-10, Dragon] A FPGA-based solution that outputs VGA.
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gc_3TPBjFf4 CocoDV for Coco 1 or 2] An FPGA-based solution that plugs into the MC6847 Video Display Generator IC socket on the board and provides HDMI video. Also adds extra functionality like sprites and fonts. Order via email from AC-8 Bit Zone.
*[https://thezippsterzone.com/video-adapters/ Composite Video Out boards for CoCo 2]

==== CoCo 3 Only ====
*[https://thezippsterzone.com/2019/03/27/gime-x/ GIME-X for CoCo 3] Replace your GIME chip with this FPGA-based solution that adds VGA output. Also has even more video modes and allows overclocking the CoCo.
*[https://thezippsterzone.com/video-adapters/ RGB2NTSC] CoCo3 to (a better) Composite and S-Video
*[https://cocoman.onlineweb.shop/details/p7004829_20319861.aspx Switch-a-roo CoCo3 to SCART cable] Use with a SCART to HDMI adapter.

== Light Controller ==
*[[X10 Lighting Control]]
*[[Remote Command Controller 26-1182]]

== Mods & Hacking ==
*[[CoCo Turbo Light]]
*[[DCModem to RS232 Pak]]
*[[Disk Drive power LED]]
*[[CoCo repack in PC]]
*[[Speech & Sound Pack Modification for High Speed]]
*[[CoCoEPROMpak]] Schematic board
*[[Fahrfall]] New Game Cartridge and pak
*[https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2247877/ Nowhereman999's Color Computer 3D printable Raspberry Pi case]

[[Category:Hardware]]

Hardware

2025-02-15T20:05:23Z

Carney: /* Monitors and displays */ added 3 post-CoCo Radio Shack CRTs

{{NavHardware}}
==Hardware design and integrated circuits==
Internally the CoCo 1 and CoCo 2 models are functionally identical. The core of the system is virtually identical to the reference design included in the Motorola MC6883 data sheet and consists of five LSI chips:

*MC6809E [[Microprocessor Unit]] (MPU)
*MC6883/SN74LS783/SN74LS785 [[Synchronous Address Multiplexer]] (SAM)
*MC6847 [[Video Display Generator]] (VDG)
*Two [[Peripheral Interface Adapters]] (PIA), either MC6821 or MC6822 chips

==Audio Digitizers==
*[[Delta Pro]]
*[[Max Sound]] - GimeSoft's audio recorder that used the joystick port.

==Audio Output Devices==
*[[Orchestra-90 CC (26-3143)]] - Software Affair Stereo Music Synthesizer DAC recreated by Zippster as the [[CoCoDAC-16]]
*[[Speech/Sound Cartridge (26-3144A)]] - General Instruments Music and Speech Synthesizer AY3-8913 Programmable Sound Generator (PSG) and an SPO256-AL2 Narrator Speech Processor
*[[Symphony-12]] - Speech Systems' 4 x AY-3-8912 PSG for 12 channel sound, recreated as the [[Philharmonic-12]]
*[[Game Master Cart]] - RetroTinker's Flash ROM and SN76489AN Digital Complex Sound Generator (DCSG)
*[[CoCo PSG]] - Zippster's YM-2149 Software-controlled Sound Generator (SSG)
*[[MEGA mini MPI]] - Zippster's YM-262F OPL3 FM Synthesizer
*[[The Voice]] - Speech Systems' Speech Synthesizer with the Votrax SC-01
*[[Super Voice]] - Speech Systems' Speech Synthesizer device that could sing with a Votrax SC-02 / SSI 263A
*[[Real Talker]] - Colorware Voice Synthesizer with the Votrax SC-01

==Bus Expander==
*[[Multi-Pak|Tandy Multipak (26-3024)]]
*[[Multi-Pak|Tandy Multipak (26-3124)]]
*[[Colorburst|Colorburst By Maxsys]]
*[[Howard Medical Slotpak]]
*[[Orion Technologies XPort]]
*[[CoNect Xpander]]
*[[CoNect Y Box]]
*[[Y-Cable]]
*[[Solderless Proto Board]]
*Basic Technology [[BT Companion]][https://archive.org/details/color-computer-magazine-1984-01/page/n29/mode/2up?view=theater]

==Computers & Clones==
*[[TRS-80 Color Computers]] (A list of all available models)
*[[Dragon]]
*[[MC-10_Micro_Color_Computer|MC-10 Micro Color Computer]]
*[[CP400]]
*[[TDP-100]]
*[[LZ Color64]] Brazilian clone
*[[Dynacom MX-1600]] Brazilian clone

==Tandy/Radio Shack Tape Drive Systems==
*[[CTR-80A]]
*[[CCR-81 (26-1208)]]
*[[CCR-82]]
*[[CCR-83]]

=== Other Tape Drive Systems ===
*[[Exatron Stringy Floppy]]

== Floppy Disk Controllers ==

* [[Other Floppy Disk]] - notes and information about the CoCo FD controllers

=== Tandy/Radio Shack floppy disk controllers ===
* [[26-3022]]
* [[26-3029]]
* [[FD-500 (26-3129)]]
* [[FD-501 (26-3131)]]
* [[FD-502 (26-3133)]]

=== Third party floppy disk controllers ===
* [[SDC Floppy Emulator]]
* [[Disto Super Disk Controller]]
* [[Disto Super Disk Controller II]]
* [[Disto Mini Controller]]
* [[J&M/Owl-Ware]]
* [[Hard Drive Specialists]]
* [[Sardis Technologies 'no-halt' Controller]]

=== Hacking floppy disk ===
*[[Hacking Disk]] 40, 80 Track, 2 Sides
*[[26-3029 CoCo Disk Controller High Density Modifications]] - ([http://users.digitalindigo.net/~techno/coco_floppy.html source])

=== Alternate floppy disk controller ROMs ===
*[[ADOS/ADOS-3]]
*[[RGBDOS]]
*[[JDOS]]
*[[MYDOS]]
*[[CDOS]]
*[[OWLDOS]]
*[[HDB-DOS]]

==Hard Drive Controllers==
* [[Disto Hard Disk II Adapter]]
*[[Tandy Hard Drive Controller]]
* [[CoCo XT]] / CoCo XT-RTC by [[Burke & Burke]]
*[[KenTon]] - SCSI
*[[Gleside IDE Interface]]
*[[Cloud-9 SuperIDE Interface]]
*[[Cloud-9 TC^3 SCSI Interface]]
*[[Owl-Ware]]

==Input Devices==

[[Joysticks]]
[[Paddles]]

=== Tandy / Radio Shack ===
*[[Joystick]]
*[[Deluxe Joystick]]
*[[Color Mouse]] (1 Button)
*[[Deluxe Color Mouse]] (2 button)
*[[Tandy Hi-Res Joystick Adapter]]
*[[Pistol Grip Joystick]]
*[[X-Pad]]
*Archer Cat. No. 270-9207. With both a Tandy 6-pin DIN and an IBM PC 15-pin connector, plus a "Tandy/IBM" switch on underside.

=== Third party ===
*[[CoCo-150]] - Flight Sim Yoke, Alban Scientific, [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1985-02/page/n273/mode/2up ''The Rainbow'' Feb 1985]
*[[The Glove]]
*[[Le Stick]]
*[[Wico Deluxe Joystick]]
*[[WICO Computer Command Trackball]]
*[[WICO Computer Command Analog Joystick]]
*[[HJL-57 upgrade Keyboard]]
*[[HJL NumberJack]] numeric keypad
*[[Koala Pad]]
*[[Diecom Light Phaser Interface]]
*[[Comrex ComMander Deluxe]]
*[[Altai DR-2B]]
*[[Spectrum Mach II Joystick]]
*[[Spectrum Paddle]]
*[[Spectrum Stick]]
*[[MAXX Flight Control Yoke]] - [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/cm1991_software_buyers_guide.html?fb3d-page=71| 1991 Software Buyers Guide p. 71] listed it as CoCo compatible. Cat. No. 900-2176
*[[Advanced Gravis Mark VI Competition Joystick]] - [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1991_rsc-22.html?fb3d-page=38| RSC-22 p.38] listed Tandy-specific version Cat. No. 900-2380, also advertised in ''The Rainbow'' starting around Feb 1989.
*[[Endicott Joystick]]
*[[JARB Dual Joystick Unit]]. "Single unit assembly enhances playability of multi-joystick/player games; convenient press-to-fire buttons." [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1982-11/page/n69/mode/2up Ad in November 1982 ''Rainbow'' p. 71]

=== Accessories ===
*[[Atari to CoCo Joystick Adapter]]
*[[Colorware Super Hi-Res Interface]]
*[[Hawksoft Dual Hi-Res Joystick Adapter]]
*[[Puppo Keyboard Adapter]]
*[[OWL Keyboard Adapter]]
*[[Cloud-9 AT Keyboard Adapter]]
*[[Joy-Mouse Interface]] - Adapter from Micro-Labs allowing a [[Joysticks|CoCo-standard joystick]] to connect to a TRS-80 Model III or 4.

==Memory Upgrades==
*[[Tandy 512K Upgrade]]
*[[Performance Peripherals 512K Upgrade]]
*[[Cloud-9 Triad 512K SRAM Upgrade]]
*[[Boyson Tech Boomerang 512K Upgrade]]
*[[Disto 512K Upgrade]]
*[[Disto 1MB Upgrade]]
*[[Disto 2MB Upgrade]]

==MIDI Interfaces==
*[[CoCo MIDI]]
*[[MIDI Maestro]] and [[MIDI Maestro+]]

== Monitors and displays ==

* Radio Shack
** 26-3010 - [[TRS-80 Color Video Receiver]] introduced in the [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1981_rsc-04.html?fb3d-page=30 1981 Radio Shack Computer Catalog RSC-4] and the [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1981_radioshack_catalog.html?fb3d-page=174 1981 Radio Shack main catalog].
** 16-230 - 13" color TV, model number TC-130. Introduced in [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1983_radioshack_catalog.html?fb3d-page=154| the 1983 general Radio Shack catalog], and shown as the CoCo's display in [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1983_radioshack_catalog.html?fb3d-page=184 that same catalog's back cover]. Also shown on [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1983_rsc-08.html?fb3d-page=01| the cover of 1983's Radio Shack Computer Catalog RSC-8] and [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1983_rsc-08.html?fb3d-page=31 once in the CoCo section] where the Color Video Receiver was still more prominent. Not fully shown in the interior of an RSC [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1983_rsc-09.html?fb3d-page=46| until RSC-9 later in 1983].
** 16-231 - a 13" TV. Introduced in the [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1985_radioshack_catalog.html?fb3d-page=104 1985 Radio Shack main catalog]. Shown as the display [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1985_radioshack_catalog.html?fb3d-page=164| in the CoCo's listing in that same catalog] as well as (in 1985's RSC-12 Computer Catalog) on both [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1985_rsc-12.html?fb3d-page=01 the cover] and [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1985_rsc-12.html??fb3d-page=50 the CoCo's own listings].
** 16-232 - a 13" TV/Video Monitor. Introduced in the [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1986_radioshack_catalog.html?fb3d-page=89 1986 Radio Shack main catalog]. Shown as the display in [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1986_radioshack_catalog.html?fb3d-page=166 the CoCo's listing in that same catalog] as well as in [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1986_rsc-15.html?fb3d-page=42 1986's Radio Shack Computer Catalog RSC-15].
** 16-233 - a 13" TV, model number TC-171. Introduced in the [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1988_radioshack_catalog.html?fb3d-page=99 1988 Radio Shack main catalog]. Also shown as the display [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1988_radioshack_catalog.html?fb3d-page=162| in the CoCo 2's listing in that same catalog] and in [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1988_rsc-19.html?fb3d-page=26 1988's Radio Shack Computer Catalog RSC-19].
** 16-289 - a 13" TV/monitor, model number TC-194. Postdates the CoCo [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1996_radioshack_catalog.html?fb3d-page=100 (1996 main catalog)] but a Radio Shack branded tabletop CRT.
** 16-246 - a 9" TV/monitor. Postdates the CoCo [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1996_radioshack_catalog.html?fb3d-page=100 (1996 main catalog)] but a Radio Shack branded tabletop CRT. Also suitable for the [[MC-10]]?
** 16-289 - a 13" TV/monitor, model number TC-195. Postdates the CoCo [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/1997_radioshack_catalog.html (1997 main catalog)] but a Radio Shack branded tabletop CRT.
* Tandy
** 26-3512 [[CM-8]] Specifically made for the CoCo 3. Affordable but no composite input, thus many CoCo 1/2 programs would show in black-and-white.
** 25-8056 [[RGB-11]] [https://colorcomputerarchive.com/repo/Documents/Manuals/Hardware/RGB-11%20Color%20Monitor.pdf Listed in the Color Computer Archive]. Perhaps only for composite input use rather than RGB.
** 26-3211 [[VM-2]] Monochrome (green-screen) composite. Had "Tandy TRS-80" branding; part of the brief attempt to hold on to "TRS-80" while still moving to "Tandy" instead of "Radio Shack". Introduced in [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1985_rsc-14.html?fb3d-page=4 RSC-14 in 1985]; intended for the Tandy 1000 and the Model 100's Disk/Video Interface rather than the CoCo, but when the CoCo 3 complete with composite port came along two years later, it could be an inexpensive option for those intending their CoCos for productivity, telecom, text adventures, and monochrome graphical games like [[Dungeons of Daggorath|Daggorath]] and [[Project Nebula|Nebula]], and wanted the higher resolution than a TV could provide.
** 25-1020 [[VM-4]] Successor of the VM-2. Introduced in [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1987_rsc-17.html?fb3d-page=10 RSC-17]. Mentioned by [[Marty Goodman]] as being [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1987-08/page/n71/mode/2up "perfectly compatible" with the CoCo 3] - but, again, being monochrome, was not ideal for most games or graphics. Perhaps any monochrome composite monitor would work.

* Magnavox
**[[8CM505]]
**[[8CM643]]
**[[8CM515]] - Analog RGB and composite color. The August [[Rainbow_Magazine_1987|1987]] ''[[Rainbow]]'' ran a [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1987-08/page/n141/mode/2up favorable review by Ed Ellers (p.140-141)] and a [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1987-08/page/n71/mode/2up recommendation from Marty Goodman (pp. 70,73,75)]. [[Cloud-9]] [http://www.frontiernet.net/~mmarlette/Cloud-9/Hardware/Video%20Cables.html still offers a CoCo 3 adapter cable].
**[[1CM135]] - Replaced the 8CM515, adding stereo sound input, Commodore-style S-Video with chorma-luma input, and CGA RGB. [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1991-03/page/n13/mode/2up?q=8cm515 Recommended by Marty Goodman in the March 1991 ''Rainbow''.]
* Sony
**[[KV-1311CR]]. Howard Medical Computers and [[Spectrum Projects]] sold CoCo 3 cables for the analog RGB connection.
**[[KX-1211HG]]

* Teknika
**MJ305 [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1987-01/page/n92/mode/1up]

*[[15KHz SVGA Monitors]]

==Arithmetic Processor Units==
*[https://github.com/barberd/coco9511pak CoCo AM9511 Pak]

==Multi Devices==
These are items that serve more than one purpose, such as Cloud-9's SuperBoard.
*[[SuperBoard]]
*[[FHL Eliminator]]
*[[Disto MEB]]

==Printers==
*[[CoCo Printers]]

==RS232 Devices==
*[[Deluxe RS232 Pak]]
*[[Direct Connect Modem Pak]]
*[[Orion Technologies RS232 Pak]]
*[[Disto RS232 Pak]]
*[[PBJ Dual Serial Port Pak]]
*[[Kenton Dual Serial Port Pak]]
*[[Quad Serial Port Pak]] - Who made this?
*[[CoCoPro! RS232 Pak]]
*[[CoNect Dual RS232 Pak]]
*[[CoNect RS232 Pak]]
*[[CoNect 16550 Pak]] - what is the official name?
*[[Metric Model 101p Serial to Parallel Converter]]
*[[Dayton Industries Blue Streak Ultima Serial to Parallel Converter]]
*[https://github.com/barberd/cocousbserial CoCo USB Serial Pak]

==Video Digitizers==
*[[Rascan]]
*[[DS-69 Digisector]]

== Video Out==
=== Historical Solutions ===
*[[PBJ Wordpak/Wordpak II]]
*[[Lucas Industries 2000 AutoDim]]
*[[RGB to VGA Converter]]
*[[CoCo 3 RGB to CGA/EGA Adapter]]

=== Build it yourself ===
*[[CoCo 1 Monochrome Video]]
*[[CoCo 1 composite video]]
*[https://imgur.com/a/XYjvAl8 Coco 1 S-Video Circuit, Simplified] (requires disabling RF) Convert to Composite by adding a 470pf capacitor between the yellow and blue lines and replace the S-Video connector with an RCA connector with center connector on the yellow side of the new capacitor.
*[https://imgur.com/a/Pu7vdHB CoCo 1 and 2 S-Video and Composite Out Circuit]
*[https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1iawKo8rM3PNL5g4nWRu-KFlnn0n_WJ4P CoCo 2 S-Video and Composite Out Circuit]
*[https://imgur.com/TIrk3AE CoCo 1 or 2 YPbPr/YUV Component Out Circuit]
*[https://hackaday.io/project/7366-coco-3-rgb-to-scart-to-hdmi-cable CoCo 3 RGB -> SCART] Use with a SCART to HDMI adapter.

=== Current Solutions to Purchase ===
*[[Video without RF Box]] Use existing RF out on your CoCo 1, 2, or 3 into your TV tuner.
*[https://github.com/hoglet67/RGBtoHDMI RGBtoHDMI] Requires Pi Zero, RGBtoHDMI hat board, and Analog board. Mostly used with CoCo 1s and 2s, but can also be used for PAL CoCo3s to simulate NTSC artifact colors.

==== CoCo 1 or 2 Only ====
Note that these CoCo 1 and 2 solutions require installation.
*[http://cocovga.com/ CoCoVGA for CoCo 1, 2, MC-10, Dragon] A FPGA-based solution that outputs VGA.
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gc_3TPBjFf4 CocoDV for Coco 1 or 2] An FPGA-based solution that plugs into the MC6847 Video Display Generator IC socket on the board and provides HDMI video. Also adds extra functionality like sprites and fonts. Order via email from AC-8 Bit Zone.
*[https://thezippsterzone.com/video-adapters/ Composite Video Out boards for CoCo 2]

==== CoCo 3 Only ====
*[https://thezippsterzone.com/2019/03/27/gime-x/ GIME-X for CoCo 3] Replace your GIME chip with this FPGA-based solution that adds VGA output. Also has even more video modes and allows overclocking the CoCo.
*[https://thezippsterzone.com/video-adapters/ RGB2NTSC] CoCo3 to (a better) Composite and S-Video
*[https://cocoman.onlineweb.shop/details/p7004829_20319861.aspx Switch-a-roo CoCo3 to SCART cable] Use with a SCART to HDMI adapter.

== Light Controller ==
*[[X10 Lighting Control]]
*[[Remote Command Controller 26-1182]]

== Mods & Hacking ==
*[[CoCo Turbo Light]]
*[[DCModem to RS232 Pak]]
*[[Disk Drive power LED]]
*[[CoCo repack in PC]]
*[[Speech & Sound Pack Modification for High Speed]]
*[[CoCoEPROMpak]] Schematic board
*[[Fahrfall]] New Game Cartridge and pak
*[https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2247877/ Nowhereman999's Color Computer 3D printable Raspberry Pi case]

[[Category:Hardware]]

Talk:CoCo Modems

2025-02-11T03:12:54Z

Carney: Created page with "==To add later== Page 359 Aug 1982 80 Micro[https://colorcomputerarchive.com/repo/Documents/Magazines/80%20Micro/1982/80%20Micro%20-%208208%20-%20August%201982.pdf]: <big>color communications</big> Communicate in color with the MICRO CONNECTION™ direct connect modem for the TRS-8O Color Computer. Run 300 bps serial printers to download color files. Send E-mail. Chat. Buy merchandise. Access The Source™ and other exciting data bases with the MICROCONNECT..."

==To add later==
Page 359 Aug 1982 [[80 Micro]][https://colorcomputerarchive.com/repo/Documents/Magazines/80%20Micro/1982/80%20Micro%20-%208208%20-%20August%201982.pdf]:
<big>color communications</big>
Communicate in color with the MICRO CONNECTION™ direct connect modem for the TRS-8O Color Computer. Run 300 bps serial printers to download color files. Send E-mail.
Chat. Buy merchandise. Access The Source™ and other exciting data bases with the MICROCONNECTION™ for the TRS-80 Color Computer. $199.50
the microperipheral corporation
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(206) 881-7544
[[User:Carney|Carney]] ([[User talk:Carney|talk]]) 03:12, 11 February 2025 (UTC)

Talk:FP-215

2025-02-10T05:39:57Z

Carney: Created page with "For later use: note this source's informative layout of the differences among Radio Shack printers at the time, lining them up by speed and price: https://archive.org/details/secret-guide-10-v6/page/6/mode/2up?q=%22FP-215%22"

For later use: note this source's informative layout of the differences among Radio Shack printers at the time, lining them up by speed and price:
https://archive.org/details/secret-guide-10-v6/page/6/mode/2up?q=%22FP-215%22

CoCo Printers

2025-02-10T05:26:54Z

Carney:

{{NavHardware}}

CoCo printers came in essentially two types. Ones that were specifically designed, made, and advertised with the CoCo in mind (either exclusively, or with other computers as well), and those that were not and which the CoCo had to use adapters for.

The vast majority of computer printers in the 8-bit era used parallel ports, which the CoCo, being serial-only, does not have.

Other printers did have serial ports, but only the industry-standard, large D-shaped connector with 9 or 25 pins. But the CoCo -- perhaps to cut costs -- did not have that interface either, instead having a distinctive serial interface with a round, 4-pin DIN connector. Radio Shack sold a six-foot male-to-male 4 pin to 4 pin cable for CoCo printing, separately from their CoCos and printers, as Catalog Number 26-3020 for $4.95 starting in 1982's RSC-07, going all the way to RSC-21 in 1990 for $5.95.

But the very first printer Tandy marketed as being CoCo-compatible had a ''5''-pin DIN connector. To connect to a CoCo, it needed the Cat. No. 26-3009, a cable with the 5-pin DIN on one end and the CoCo's standard 4-pin DIN serial connector on the other. The cable was originally intended for the TRS-80 Model I and was called the Model I cassette special serial interface. The printer was soon dropped from Radio Shack's product lineup as soon as other, more practical CoCo printers became available.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ The First CoCo Printer
|-
! Name !! Cat. No. !! Type !! Case !! Branding !! RSC Year !! RSC Debut !! Debut Price || Notes
|-
| Quick Printer II || 26-1115 || Thermal || Silver || Radio Shack || 1979 (1981 for CoCo) || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1981_rsc-04.html?fb3d-page=30 RSC-04, p. 30] || style="text-align:right;"|219.00 || Ultra-narrow (2⅜") and expensive aluminum-coated paper
|}

Before releasing printers with CoCo serial ports, Radio Shack sold printers with industry standard 25-pin serial ports. To use these printers, CoCo owners had to get the more expensive ($19.95) adapter cable with a CoCo-style 4-pin DIN on one side and the normal DB25 serial plug on the other (Cat. No. 26-3014).

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Printers with Standard Serial Ports
|-
! Name !! Cat. No. !! Type !! Case !! Branding !! RSC Debut !! Year !! Price || Notes
|-
| Multi-Pen Plotter || 26-1991 || Color Plotter || Silver/Gray || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1982_rsc-06.html?fb3d-page=23 RSC-06, p.23] || style="text-align:center;"|1982 || style="text-align:right;"|1995.00
|-
|}

By late 1981, Radio Shack finally began releasing printers with CoCo-style serial ports. Although not all Tandy/Radio Shack printers during the CoCo's market life had such ports -- the company continued to release printer models throughout the CoCo era that only had parallel interfaces -- many did have the CoCo-style port. Here's the list:

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Printers with CoCo Serial Ports
|-
! Name !! Cat. No. !! Type !! Case !! Branding !! RSC Debut !! Year !! Price || Notes
|-
| Line Printer VII || 26-1167 || Dot Matrix || Silver/Gray || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1982_rsc-06.html?fb3d-page=20 RSC-06, p.20] || style="text-align:center;"|1982 || style="text-align:right;"|399.00
|-
| Line Printer VIII || 26-1168 || Dot Matrix || Silver/Gray || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1982_rsc-06.html?fb3d-page=20 RSC-06, p.20] || style="text-align:center;"|1982 || style="text-align:right;"|799.00
|-
| [[FP-215]] || 26-1193 || Color Plotter || Silver/Gray || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1983_rsc-08.html?fb3d-page=24 RSC-08, p.24] || style="text-align:center;"|1983 || style="text-align:right;"|995.00 ||
|-
| CGP-115 || 26-1192 || Color Plotter || Silver/Gray || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1983_rsc-08.html?fb3d-page=24 RSC-08, p.24] || style="text-align:center;"|1983 || style="text-align:right;"|249.95 || Narrow (4½" wide) roll paper; [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1985_rsc-12.html?fb3d-page=33 $199.99 RSC-12]
|-
| DMP-100 || 26-1253 || Dot Matrix || Silver/Gray || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1983_rsc-08.html?fb3d-page=20 RSC-08, p.20] || style="text-align:center;"|1983 || style="text-align:right;"|399.00
|-
| DMP-200 || 26-1254 || Dot Matrix || Silver/Gray || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1983_rsc-08.html?fb3d-page=20 RSC-08, p.20] || style="text-align:center;"|1983 || style="text-align:right;"|799.00
|-
| DMP-400 || 26-1251 || Dot Matrix || Silver/Gray || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1983_rsc-08.html?fb3d-page=21 RSC-08, p.21] || style="text-align:center;"|1983 || style="text-align:right;"|1,195.00
|-
| [[CGP-220]] || 26-1268 || Color Inkjet || White || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=31 RSC-10, p.31] || style="text-align:center;"|1984 || style="text-align:right;"|699.00 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1986_rsc-15.html?fb3d-page=60 $599 RSC-15 p. 60]
|-
| DMP-120 || 26-1255 || Dot Matrix || White || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=32 RSC-10, p.32] || style="text-align:center;"|1984 || style="text-align:right;"|499.95
|-
| DMP-420 || 26-1267 || Dot Matrix || White || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=33 RSC-10, p.33] || style="text-align:center;"|1984 || style="text-align:right;"|999.00
|-
| DWP-210 || 26-1257 || Daisy Wheel || White ||Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=34 RSC-10, p.34] || style="text-align:center;"|1984 || style="text-align:right;"|799.00 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/m-sale_1984_379.html?fb3d-page=29 $599 SF-379]; [https://archive.org/details/80_Micro_1986-03_CW_Communications_US/page/n23/mode/2up?q=%22DWP-210%22 Discontinued March 86]
|-
| TP-10 || 26-1261 || Thermal || White || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=55 RSC-10, p.55] || style="text-align:center;"|1984 || style="text-align:right;"|99.95 || Narrow 4⅛" Paper; For CoCo & MC-10 '''only''' - no parallel port
|-
| DMP-110 || 26-1271 || Dot Matrix || White || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-11.html?fb3d-page=36 RSC-11, p.36] || style="text-align:center;"|1984 || style="text-align:right;"|399.00
|-
| TRP-100 || 26-1275 || Thermal || White || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1985_rsc-12.html?fb3d-page=37 RSC-12, p.37] || style="text-align:center;"|1985 || style="text-align:right;"|299.95 || Battery capable, meant especially for Model 100 laptop
|-
| DMP-105 || 26-1276 || Dot Matrix || White || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1985_rsc-12.html?fb3d-page=37 RSC-12, p.37] || style="text-align:center;"|1985 || style="text-align:right;"|199.95 || Tandy-branded by [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1986_rsc-15.html?fb3d-page=63 RSC-15, p.63]
|-
| DMP-430 || 26-1277 || Dot Matrix || White || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1985_rsc-12.html?fb3d-page=36 RSC-12, p.36] || style="text-align:center;"|1985 || style="text-align:right;"|899.00
|-
| DWP-220 || 26-1278 || Daisy Wheel || White || Tandy || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1986_rsc-15.html?fb3d-page=61 RSC-15, p.61] || style="text-align:center;"|1985 || style="text-align:right;"|599.00
|-
| DMP-130 || 26-1280 || Dot Matrix || White || Tandy || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1986_rsc-15.html?fb3d-page=63 RSC-16, p.63] || style="text-align:center;"|1986 || style="text-align:right;"|349.95
|-
| DWP-230 || 26-2812 || Daisy Wheel || White || Tandy || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1987_rsc-17.html?fb3d-page=54 RSC-17, p.54] || style="text-align:center;"|1987 || style="text-align:right;"|399.95 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1990_rsc-21.html?fb3d-page=39 $459.95 RSC-21 p.39]; [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/m-sale_1987_04_87.html?fb3d-page=7 $299.95 SF-4 87]; [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/m-sale_1990_454.html?fb3d-page=12 $199.95 SF-454]
|-
| DMP-106 || 26-2802 || Dot Matrix || White || Tandy || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1988_rsc-19.html?fb3d-page=33 RSC-19, p.33] || style="text-align:center;"|1988 || style="text-align:right;"|219.95
|-
| DMP-440 || 26-2808 || Dot Matrix || White || Tandy || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1988_rsc-19.html?fb3d-page=32 RSC-19, p.32] || style="text-align:center;"|1988 || style="text-align:right;"|699.00
|-
| DMP-132 || 26-1814 || Dot Matrix || White || Tandy || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1989_rsc-20.html?fb3d-page=38 RSC-20, p.38] || style="text-align:center;"|1989 || style="text-align:right;"|379.95 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/m-sale_1989_442.html?fb3d-page=22 $219.95 SF-442]
|-
| DMP-133 || 26-1815 || Dot Matrix || White || Tandy || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1990_rsc-21.html?fb3d-page=39 RSC-21, p.39] || style="text-align:center;"|1990 || style="text-align:right;"|379.95 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/m-sale_1989_449.html?fb3d-page=19 $269.95 SF-449 ], [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/m-sale_1990_460.html?fb3d-page=22 $219.95 SF-460]
|-
| DMP-107 || 26-2821 || Dot Matrix || White || Tandy || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1990_rsc-21.html?fb3d-page=39 RSC-21, p.39] || style="text-align:center;"|1990 || style="text-align:right;"|279.95
|-
|}

Tandy also sold two of its CoCo printers under [[Tandy Data Products]] branding, to support the [[TDP-100]]. Both these printers came out in 1982 and had white cases. The TDP-branded version of Radio Shack's CoCo serial cable (Cat. No. 26-3020) was Stock Number 10-1270, also sold for $4.95. One authorized seller was [[Spectrum Projects]].

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ TDP Printers
|-
! Name !! Model/Stock No. !! Type !! Radio Shack Equivalent !! Price
|-
| Line Printer I || 10-1130 || Dot Matrix || DMP-100 || [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1982-11/page/n78/mode/1up 399.00]
|-
| Color Graphics Printer || 10-1100 || Color Plotter || CGP-115 || [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1982-11/page/n78/mode/1up 249.00]
|}

A brisk third-party aftermarket quickly sprang up to offer CoCo users the ability to use non-Radio Shack printers with parallel ports. Given the amount of magazine coverage and software support these printers had, both these printers, and the adapters necessary to make use of them, must have sold reasonably well in the CoCo market.

CoCo Printers

2025-02-10T05:26:04Z

Carney:

{{NavHardware}}

CoCo printers came in essentially two types. Ones that were specifically designed, made, and advertised with the CoCo in mind (either exclusively, or with other computers as well), and those that were not and which the CoCo had to use adapters for.

The vast majority of computer printers in the 8-bit era used parallel ports, which the CoCo, being serial-only, does not have.

Other printers did have serial ports, but only the industry-standard, large D-shaped connector with 9 or 25 pins. But the CoCo -- perhaps to cut costs -- did not have that interface either, instead having a distinctive serial interface with a round, 4-pin DIN connector. Radio Shack sold a six-foot male-to-male 4 pin to 4 pin cable for CoCo printing, separately from their CoCos and printers, as Catalog Number 26-3020 for $4.95 starting in 1982's RSC-07, going all the way to RSC-21 in 1990 for $5.95.

But the very first printer Tandy marketed as being CoCo-compatible had a ''5''-pin DIN connector. To connect to a CoCo, it needed the Cat. No. 26-3009, a cable with the 5-pin DIN on one end and the CoCo's standard 4-pin DIN serial connector on the other. The cable was originally intended for the TRS-80 Model I and was called the Model I cassette special serial interface. The printer was soon dropped from Radio Shack's product lineup as soon as other, more practical CoCo printers became available.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ The First CoCo Printer
|-
! Name !! Cat. No. !! Type !! Case !! Branding !! RSC Year !! RSC Debut !! Debut Price || Notes
|-
| Quick Printer II || 26-1115 || Thermal || Silver || Radio Shack || 1979 (1981 for CoCo) || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1981_rsc-04.html?fb3d-page=30 RSC-04, p. 30] || style="text-align:right;"|219.00 || Ultra-narrow (2⅜") and expensive aluminum-coated paper
|}

Before releasing printers with CoCo serial ports, Radio Shack sold printers with industry standard 25-pin serial ports. To use these printers, CoCo owners had to get the more expensive ($19.95) adapter cable with a CoCo-style 4-pin DIN on one side and the normal DB25 serial plug on the other (Cat. No. 26-3014).

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Printers with Standard Serial Ports
|-
! Name !! Cat. No. !! Type !! Case !! Branding !! RSC Debut !! Year !! Price || Notes
|-
| Multi-Pen Plotter || 26-1991 || Color Plotter || Silver/Gray || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1982_rsc-06.html?fb3d-page=23 RSC-06, p.23] || style="text-align:center;"|1982 || style="text-align:right;"|1995.00
|-
|}

By late 1981, Radio Shack finally began releasing printers with CoCo-style serial ports. Although not all Tandy/Radio Shack printers during the CoCo's market life had such ports -- the company continued to release printer models throughout the CoCo era that only had parallel interfaces -- many did have the CoCo-style port. Here's the list:

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Printers with CoCo Serial Ports
|-
! Name !! Cat. No. !! Type !! Case !! Branding !! RSC Debut !! Year !! Price || Notes
|-
| Line Printer VII || 26-1167 || Dot Matrix || Silver/Gray || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1982_rsc-06.html?fb3d-page=20 RSC-06, p.20] || style="text-align:center;"|1982 || style="text-align:right;"|399.00
|-
| Line Printer VIII || 26-1168 || Dot Matrix || Silver/Gray || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1982_rsc-06.html?fb3d-page=20 RSC-06, p.20] || style="text-align:center;"|1982 || style="text-align:right;"|799.00
|-
| [[FP-215]] || 26-1193 || Color Plotter || Silver/Gray || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1983_rsc-08.html?fb3d-page=24 RSC-08, p.24] || style="text-align:center;"|1983 || style="text-align:right;"|995.00 ||
|-
| CGP-115 || 26-1192 || Color Plotter || Silver/Gray || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1983_rsc-08.html?fb3d-page=24 RSC-08, p.24] || style="text-align:center;"|1983 || style="text-align:right;"|249.95 || Narrow (4½" wide) roll paper; [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1985_rsc-12.html?fb3d-page=33 $199.99 RSC-12]
|-
| DMP-100 || 26-1253 || Dot Matrix || Silver/Gray || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1983_rsc-08.html?fb3d-page=20 RSC-08, p.20] || style="text-align:center;"|1983 || style="text-align:right;"|399.00
|-
| DMP-200 || 26-1254 || Dot Matrix || Silver/Gray || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1983_rsc-08.html?fb3d-page=20 RSC-08, p.20] || style="text-align:center;"|1983 || style="text-align:right;"|799.00
|-
| DMP-400 || 26-1251 || Dot Matrix || Silver/Gray || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1983_rsc-08.html?fb3d-page=21 RSC-08, p.21] || style="text-align:center;"|1983 || style="text-align:right;"|1,195.00
|-
| [[CGP-220]] || 26-1268 || Color Inkjet || White || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=31 RSC-10, p.31] || style="text-align:center;"|1984 || style="text-align:right;"|699.00 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1986_rsc-15.html?fb3d-page=60 $599 RSC-15 p. 60]
|-
| DMP-120 || 26-1255 || Dot Matrix || White || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=32 RSC-10, p.32] || style="text-align:center;"|1984 || style="text-align:right;"|499.95
|-
| DMP-420 || 26-1267 || Dot Matrix || White || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=33 RSC-10, p.33] || style="text-align:center;"|1984 || style="text-align:right;"|999.00
|-
| DWP-210 || 26-1257 || Daisy Wheel || White ||Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=34 RSC-10, p.34] || style="text-align:center;"|1984 || style="text-align:right;"|799.00 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/m-sale_1984_379.html?fb3d-page=29 $599 SF-379]; [https://archive.org/details/80_Micro_1986-03_CW_Communications_US/page/n23/mode/2up?q=%22DWP-210%22 Discontinued March 86]
|-
| TP-10 || 26-1261 || Thermal || White || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=55 RSC-10, p.55] || style="text-align:center;"|1984 || style="text-align:right;"|99.95 || Narrow 4⅛" Paper; For CoCo & MC-10 '''only''' - no parallel port
|-
| DMP-110 || 26-1271 || Dot Matrix || White || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-11.html?fb3d-page=36 RSC-11, p.36] || style="text-align:center;"|1984 || style="text-align:right;"|399.00
|-
| TRP-100 || 26-1275 || Thermal || White || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1985_rsc-12.html?fb3d-page=37 RSC-12, p.37] || style="text-align:center;"|1985 || style="text-align:right;"|299.95 || Battery capable, meant especially for Model 100 laptop
|-
| DMP-105 || 26-1276 || Dot Matrix || White || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1985_rsc-12.html?fb3d-page=37 RSC-12, p.37] || style="text-align:center;"|1985 || style="text-align:right;"|199.95 || Tandy-branded by [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1986_rsc-15.html?fb3d-page=63 RSC-15, p.63]
|-
| DMP-430 || 26-1277 || Dot Matrix || White || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1985_rsc-12.html?fb3d-page=36 RSC-12, p.36] || style="text-align:center;"|1985 || style="text-align:right;"|899.00
|-
| DWP-220 || 26-1278 || Daisy Wheel || White || Tandy || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1986_rsc-15.html?fb3d-page=61 RSC-15, p.61] || style="text-align:center;"|1985 || style="text-align:right;"|599.00
|-
| DMP-130 || 26-1280 || Dot Matrix || White || Tandy || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1986_rsc-15.html?fb3d-page=63 RSC-16, p.63] || style="text-align:center;"|1986 || style="text-align:right;"|349.95
|-
| DWP-230 || 26-2812 || Daisy Wheel || White || Tandy || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1987_rsc-17.html?fb3d-page=54 RSC-17, p.54] || style="text-align:center;"|1987 || style="text-align:right;"|399.95 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1990_rsc-21.html?fb3d-page=39 $459.95 RSC-21 p.39]; [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/m-sale_1987_04_87.html?fb3d-page=7 $299.95 SF-4 87]; [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/m-sale_1990_454.html?fb3d-page=12 $199.95 SF-454]
|-
| DMP-106 || 26-2802 || Dot Matrix || White || Tandy || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1988_rsc-19.html?fb3d-page=33 RSC-19, p.33] || style="text-align:center;"|1988 || style="text-align:right;"|219.95
|-
| DMP-440 || 26-2808 || Dot Matrix || White || Tandy || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1988_rsc-19.html?fb3d-page=32 RSC-19, p.32] || style="text-align:center;"|1988 || style="text-align:right;"|699.00
|-
| DMP-132 || 26-1814 || Dot Matrix || White || Tandy || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1989_rsc-20.html?fb3d-page=38 RSC-20, p.38] || style="text-align:center;"|1989 || style="text-align:right;"|379.95 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/m-sale_1989_442.html?fb3d-page=22 $219.95 SF-442]
|-
| DMP-133 || 26-1815 || Dot Matrix || White || Tandy || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1990_rsc-21.html?fb3d-page=39 RSC-21, p.39] || style="text-align:center;"|1990 || style="text-align:right;"|379.95 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/m-sale_1989_449.html?fb3d-page=19 $269.95 SF-449 ], [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/m-sale_1990_460.html?fb3d-page=22 $219.95 SF-460]
|-
| DMP-107 || 26-2821 || Dot Matrix || White || Tandy || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1990_rsc-21.html?fb3d-page=39 RSC-21, p.39] || style="text-align:center;"|1990 || style="text-align:right;"|279.95
|-
|}

Tandy also sold two of its CoCo printers under [[Tandy Data Products]] branding, to support the [[TDP-100]]. Both these printers came out in 1982 and had white cases. The TDP-branded version of Radio Shack's CoCo serial cable (Cat. No. 26-3020) was Stock Number 10-1270, also sold for $4.95. One authorized seller was [[Spectrum Projects]].

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ TDP Printers
|-
! Name !! Model/Stock No. !! Type !! Radio Shack Equivalent !! Price
|-
| Line Printer I || 10-1130 || Dot Matrix || Line Printer VII? DMP-100? || [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1982-11/page/n78/mode/1up 399.00]
|-
| Color Graphics Printer || 10-1100 || Color Plotter || CGP-115 || [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1982-11/page/n78/mode/1up 249.00]
|}

A brisk third-party aftermarket quickly sprang up to offer CoCo users the ability to use non-Radio Shack printers with parallel ports. Given the amount of magazine coverage and software support these printers had, both these printers, and the adapters necessary to make use of them, must have sold reasonably well in the CoCo market.

CoCo Printers

2025-02-10T05:21:27Z

Carney: reworked article once I found that some DB25 serial printers specifically had CoCo compatibility as mentioned in their user manuals

{{NavHardware}}

CoCo printers came in essentially two types. Ones that were specifically designed, made, and advertised with the CoCo in mind (either exclusively, or with other computers as well), and those that were not and which the CoCo had to use adapters for.

The vast majority of computer printers in the 8-bit era used parallel ports, which the CoCo, being serial only, does not have.

Other printers did have serial ports, but assumed the industry-standard, large D-shaped connector with 9 or 25 pins that were standard elsewhere, which the CoCo -- perhaps to cut costs, did not have, instead having a distinctive serial interface with a round, 4-pin DIN connector. Radio Shack sold a six-foot male-to-male 4 pin to 4 pin cable for CoCo printing, separately from their CoCos and printers, as Catalog Number 26-3020 for $4.95 starting in 1982's RSC-07, going all the way to RSC-21 in 1990 for $5.95.

The very first printer Tandy marketed as being CoCo-compatible had a ''5''-pin DIN connector. To connect to a CoCo, it needed the Cat. No. 26-3009, a cable with the 5-pin DIN on one end and the CoCo's standard 4-pin DIN serial connector on the other. The cable was originally intended for the TRS-80 Model I and was called the Model I cassette special serial interface. The printer was soon dropped from Radio Shack's product lineup as soon as other, more practical CoCo printers became available.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ The First CoCo Printer
|-
! Name !! Cat. No. !! Type !! Case !! Branding !! RSC Year !! RSC Debut !! Debut Price || Notes
|-
| Quick Printer II || 26-1115 || Thermal || Silver || Radio Shack || 1979 (1981 for CoCo) || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1981_rsc-04.html?fb3d-page=30 RSC-04, p. 30] || style="text-align:right;"|219.00 || Ultra-narrow (2⅜") and expensive aluminum-coated paper
|}

Before releasing printers with CoCo serial ports, Radio Shack sold printers with industry standard 25-pin serial ports. To use these printers, CoCo owners had to get the more expensive ($19.95) adapter cable with a CoCo-style 4-pin DIN on one side and the normal DB25 serial plug on the other (Cat. No. 26-3014).

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Printers with Standard Serial Ports
|-
! Name !! Cat. No. !! Type !! Case !! Branding !! RSC Debut !! Year !! Price || Notes
|-
| Multi-Pen Plotter || 26-1991 || Color Plotter || Silver/Gray || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1982_rsc-06.html?fb3d-page=23 RSC-06, p.23] || style="text-align:center;"|1982 || style="text-align:right;"|1995.00
|-
|}

By late 1981, Radio Shack finally began releasing printers with CoCo-style serial ports. Although not all Tandy/Radio Shack printers during the CoCo's market life had such ports -- the company continued to release printer models throughout the CoCo era that only had parallel interfaces -- many did have the CoCo-style port. Here's the list:

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Printers with CoCo Serial Ports
|-
! Name !! Cat. No. !! Type !! Case !! Branding !! RSC Debut !! Year !! Price || Notes
|-
| Line Printer VII || 26-1167 || Dot Matrix || Silver/Gray || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1982_rsc-06.html?fb3d-page=20 RSC-06, p.20] || style="text-align:center;"|1982 || style="text-align:right;"|399.00
|-
| Line Printer VIII || 26-1168 || Dot Matrix || Silver/Gray || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1982_rsc-06.html?fb3d-page=20 RSC-06, p.20] || style="text-align:center;"|1982 || style="text-align:right;"|799.00
|-
| [[FP-215]] || 26-1193 || Color Plotter || Silver/Gray || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1983_rsc-08.html?fb3d-page=24 RSC-08, p.24] || style="text-align:center;"|1983 || style="text-align:right;"|995.00 ||
|-
| CGP-115 || 26-1192 || Color Plotter || Silver/Gray || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1983_rsc-08.html?fb3d-page=24 RSC-08, p.24] || style="text-align:center;"|1983 || style="text-align:right;"|249.95 || Narrow (4½" wide) roll paper; [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1985_rsc-12.html?fb3d-page=33 $199.99 RSC-12]
|-
| DMP-100 || 26-1253 || Dot Matrix || Silver/Gray || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1983_rsc-08.html?fb3d-page=20 RSC-08, p.20] || style="text-align:center;"|1983 || style="text-align:right;"|399.00
|-
| DMP-200 || 26-1254 || Dot Matrix || Silver/Gray || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1983_rsc-08.html?fb3d-page=20 RSC-08, p.20] || style="text-align:center;"|1983 || style="text-align:right;"|799.00
|-
| DMP-400 || 26-1251 || Dot Matrix || Silver/Gray || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1983_rsc-08.html?fb3d-page=21 RSC-08, p.21] || style="text-align:center;"|1983 || style="text-align:right;"|1,195.00
|-
| [[CGP-220]] || 26-1268 || Color Inkjet || White || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=31 RSC-10, p.31] || style="text-align:center;"|1984 || style="text-align:right;"|699.00 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1986_rsc-15.html?fb3d-page=60 $599 RSC-15 p. 60]
|-
| DMP-120 || 26-1255 || Dot Matrix || White || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=32 RSC-10, p.32] || style="text-align:center;"|1984 || style="text-align:right;"|499.95
|-
| DMP-420 || 26-1267 || Dot Matrix || White || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=33 RSC-10, p.33] || style="text-align:center;"|1984 || style="text-align:right;"|999.00
|-
| DWP-210 || 26-1257 || Daisy Wheel || White ||Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=34 RSC-10, p.34] || style="text-align:center;"|1984 || style="text-align:right;"|799.00 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/m-sale_1984_379.html?fb3d-page=29 $599 SF-379]; [https://archive.org/details/80_Micro_1986-03_CW_Communications_US/page/n23/mode/2up?q=%22DWP-210%22 Discontinued March 86]
|-
| TP-10 || 26-1261 || Thermal || White || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=55 RSC-10, p.55] || style="text-align:center;"|1984 || style="text-align:right;"|99.95 || Narrow 4⅛" Paper; For CoCo & MC-10 '''only''' - no parallel port
|-
| DMP-110 || 26-1271 || Dot Matrix || White || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-11.html?fb3d-page=36 RSC-11, p.36] || style="text-align:center;"|1984 || style="text-align:right;"|399.00
|-
| TRP-100 || 26-1275 || Thermal || White || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1985_rsc-12.html?fb3d-page=37 RSC-12, p.37] || style="text-align:center;"|1985 || style="text-align:right;"|299.95 || Battery capable, meant especially for Model 100 laptop
|-
| DMP-105 || 26-1276 || Dot Matrix || White || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1985_rsc-12.html?fb3d-page=37 RSC-12, p.37] || style="text-align:center;"|1985 || style="text-align:right;"|199.95 || Tandy-branded by [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1986_rsc-15.html?fb3d-page=63 RSC-15, p.63]
|-
| DMP-430 || 26-1277 || Dot Matrix || White || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1985_rsc-12.html?fb3d-page=36 RSC-12, p.36] || style="text-align:center;"|1985 || style="text-align:right;"|899.00
|-
| DWP-220 || 26-1278 || Daisy Wheel || White || Tandy || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1986_rsc-15.html?fb3d-page=61 RSC-15, p.61] || style="text-align:center;"|1985 || style="text-align:right;"|599.00
|-
| DMP-130 || 26-1280 || Dot Matrix || White || Tandy || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1986_rsc-15.html?fb3d-page=63 RSC-16, p.63] || style="text-align:center;"|1986 || style="text-align:right;"|349.95
|-
| DWP-230 || 26-2812 || Daisy Wheel || White || Tandy || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1987_rsc-17.html?fb3d-page=54 RSC-17, p.54] || style="text-align:center;"|1987 || style="text-align:right;"|399.95 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1990_rsc-21.html?fb3d-page=39 $459.95 RSC-21 p.39]; [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/m-sale_1987_04_87.html?fb3d-page=7 $299.95 SF-4 87]; [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/m-sale_1990_454.html?fb3d-page=12 $199.95 SF-454]
|-
| DMP-106 || 26-2802 || Dot Matrix || White || Tandy || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1988_rsc-19.html?fb3d-page=33 RSC-19, p.33] || style="text-align:center;"|1988 || style="text-align:right;"|219.95
|-
| DMP-440 || 26-2808 || Dot Matrix || White || Tandy || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1988_rsc-19.html?fb3d-page=32 RSC-19, p.32] || style="text-align:center;"|1988 || style="text-align:right;"|699.00
|-
| DMP-132 || 26-1814 || Dot Matrix || White || Tandy || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1989_rsc-20.html?fb3d-page=38 RSC-20, p.38] || style="text-align:center;"|1989 || style="text-align:right;"|379.95 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/m-sale_1989_442.html?fb3d-page=22 $219.95 SF-442]
|-
| DMP-133 || 26-1815 || Dot Matrix || White || Tandy || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1990_rsc-21.html?fb3d-page=39 RSC-21, p.39] || style="text-align:center;"|1990 || style="text-align:right;"|379.95 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/m-sale_1989_449.html?fb3d-page=19 $269.95 SF-449 ], [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/m-sale_1990_460.html?fb3d-page=22 $219.95 SF-460]
|-
| DMP-107 || 26-2821 || Dot Matrix || White || Tandy || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1990_rsc-21.html?fb3d-page=39 RSC-21, p.39] || style="text-align:center;"|1990 || style="text-align:right;"|279.95
|-
|}

Tandy also sold two of its CoCo printers under [[Tandy Data Products]] branding, to support the [[TDP-100]]. Both these printers came out in 1982 and had white cases. The TDP-branded version of Radio Shack's CoCo serial cable (Cat. No. 26-3020) was Stock Number 10-1270, also sold for $4.95. One authorized seller was [[Spectrum Projects]].

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ TDP Printers
|-
! Name !! Model/Stock No. !! Type !! Radio Shack Equivalent !! Price
|-
| Line Printer I || 10-1130 || Dot Matrix || Line Printer VII? DMP-100? || [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1982-11/page/n78/mode/1up 399.00]
|-
| Color Graphics Printer || 10-1100 || Color Plotter || CGP-115 || [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1982-11/page/n78/mode/1up 249.00]
|}

FP-215

2025-02-10T05:00:49Z

Carney: temporary cleanup until I make a real table

{{NavHardware}}

The '''Radio Shack TRS-80 FP-215''' (Cat. No. 26-9113) is a color plotter. "FP" stands for "Flatbed Plotter". The 215 debuted in fall 1982's [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1983_rsc-08.html?fb3d-page=24 RSC-8, p.24], advertised as being available later (Dec. 12, 1982) at an "affordable" price of $995. Which it was, in comparison to the Multi-Pen Plotter costing $1,995.

Since it was not a multi-pen plotter, it could only hold one pen at a time, and the user had to change the pen manually if he wanted to go from one color to another in mid-job.

Later catalogs explicitly mentioned Color Computer compatibility for CoCo printers, but at this early point, the catalog merely indirectly implied CoCo compatibility by mentioning that the FP-215 has an RS-232C serial interface along with the parallel interface.

Having said that, the FP-215 actually has a CoCo-style 4-pin DIN serial port, enabling CoCo owners to use the cheap ($4.95) CoCo serial cable (Catalog Number 26-3020), instead of having to use the more expensive ($19.95) 4-pin DIN to DB25 serial cable (Cat. No. 26-3014) required by earlier devices with industry-standard (that is, non-CoCo) 25-pin serial ports... devices like the "TandyGraph" TRS-80 Multi-Pen Plotter (26-1191). Although the FP-215 was capable of operating via the serial interface at 1200 baud, CoCo owners had to set the device's DIP switches for only 600 baud.[https://archive.org/details/FP-215_Operation_Manual_19xx_Tandy/page/n11/mode/2up?fb3d-page=10]

=Accessories=

Item Catalog Number Price Notes

Pen Black 26-1343 $3.95
Pen Red 26-1344 $3.95
Pen Blue 26-1345 $3.95
Pen Green 26-1346 $3.95
Dust Cover 26-0523 $5.95 [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1983_rsc-09.html?fb3d-page=43 didn't appear until RSC-9]

=Resources=

*[https://archive.org/details/FP-215_Operation_Manual_19xx_Tandy/mode/2up FP-215 User Manual on Internet Archive]

[[Category:Hardware]]

FP-215

2025-02-10T05:00:04Z

Carney: Created page with "{{NavHardware}} The '''Radio Shack TRS-80 FP-215''' (Cat. No. 26-9113) is a color plotter. "FP" stands for "Flatbed Plotter". The 215 debuted in fall 1982's [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1983_rsc-08.html?fb3d-page=24 RSC-8, p.24], advertised as being available later (Dec. 12, 1982) at an "affordable" price of $995. Which it was, in comparison to the Multi-Pen Plotter costing $1,995. Since it was not a multi-pen plotter, it could only hold one pen at a..."

{{NavHardware}}

The '''Radio Shack TRS-80 FP-215''' (Cat. No. 26-9113) is a color plotter. "FP" stands for "Flatbed Plotter". The 215 debuted in fall 1982's [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1983_rsc-08.html?fb3d-page=24 RSC-8, p.24], advertised as being available later (Dec. 12, 1982) at an "affordable" price of $995. Which it was, in comparison to the Multi-Pen Plotter costing $1,995.

Since it was not a multi-pen plotter, it could only hold one pen at a time, and the user had to change the pen manually if he wanted to go from one color to another in mid-job.

Later catalogs explicitly mentioned Color Computer compatibility for CoCo printers, but at this early point, the catalog merely indirectly implied CoCo compatibility by mentioning that the FP-215 has an RS-232C serial interface along with the parallel interface.

Having said that, the FP-215 actually has a CoCo-style 4-pin DIN serial port, enabling CoCo owners to use the cheap ($4.95) CoCo serial cable (Catalog Number 26-3020), instead of having to use the more expensive ($19.95) 4-pin DIN to DB25 serial cable (Cat. No. 26-3014) required by earlier devices with industry-standard (that is, non-CoCo) 25-pin serial ports... devices like the "TandyGraph" TRS-80 Multi-Pen Plotter (26-1191). Although the FP-215 was capable of operating via the serial interface at 1200 baud, CoCo owners had to set the device's DIP switches for only 600 baud.[https://archive.org/details/FP-215_Operation_Manual_19xx_Tandy/page/n11/mode/2up?fb3d-page=10]

=Accessories=

Item Catalog Number Price Notes

Pen Black 26-1343 $3.95
Pen Red 26-1344 $3.95
Pen Blue 26-1345 $3.95
Pen Green 26-1346 $3.95
Dust Cover 26-0523 $5.95 [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1983_rsc-09.html?fb3d-page=43 didn't appear until RSC-9]

=Resources=

*[https://archive.org/details/FP-215_Operation_Manual_19xx_Tandy/mode/2up FP-215 User Manual on Internet Archive]

[[Category:Hardware]]

CoCo Printers

2025-02-10T03:07:58Z

Carney:

{{NavHardware}}

CoCo printers came in essentially two types. Ones that were specifically designed, made, and advertised with the CoCo in mind (either exclusively, or with other computers as well), and those that were not and which the CoCo had to use adapters for.

The vast majority of computer printers in the 8-bit era used parallel ports, which the CoCo does not have. Printers made with the CoCo in mind use the CoCo's serial port. Another layer of distinctiveness to CoCo printing is that the CoCo's serial port was not the larger D-shaped connector with 9 or 25 pins that were standard elsewhere, but rather was a round, 4-pin DIN connector, perhaps to cut costs. Radio Shack sold a six-foot male-to-male 4 pin to 4 pin cable for CoCo printing, separately from their CoCos and printers, as Catalog Number 26-3020 for $4.95 starting in 1982's RSC-07, going all the way to RSC-21 in 1990 for $5.95.
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Printers with CoCo Serial Ports
|-
! Name !! Cat. No. !! Type !! Case !! Branding !! RSC Debut !! Year !! Price || Notes
|-
| Line Printer VII || 26-1167 || Dot Matrix || Silver/Gray || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1982_rsc-06.html?fb3d-page=20 RSC-06, p.20] || style="text-align:center;"|1982 || style="text-align:right;"|399.00
|-
| Line Printer VIII || 26-1168 || Dot Matrix || Silver/Gray || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1982_rsc-06.html?fb3d-page=20 RSC-06, p.20] || style="text-align:center;"|1982 || style="text-align:right;"|799.00
|-
| [[FP-215]] || 26-1193 || Color Plotter || Silver/Gray || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1983_rsc-08.html?fb3d-page=24 RSC-08, p.24] || style="text-align:center;"|1983 || style="text-align:right;"|995.00 ||
|-
| CGP-115 || 26-1192 || Color Plotter || Silver/Gray || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1983_rsc-08.html?fb3d-page=24 RSC-08, p.24] || style="text-align:center;"|1983 || style="text-align:right;"|249.95 || Narrow (4½" wide) roll paper; [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1985_rsc-12.html?fb3d-page=33 $199.99 RSC-12]
|-
| DMP-100 || 26-1253 || Dot Matrix || Silver/Gray || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1983_rsc-08.html?fb3d-page=20 RSC-08, p.20] || style="text-align:center;"|1983 || style="text-align:right;"|399.00
|-
| DMP-200 || 26-1254 || Dot Matrix || Silver/Gray || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1983_rsc-08.html?fb3d-page=20 RSC-08, p.20] || style="text-align:center;"|1983 || style="text-align:right;"|799.00
|-
| DMP-400 || 26-1251 || Dot Matrix || Silver/Gray || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1983_rsc-08.html?fb3d-page=21 RSC-08, p.21] || style="text-align:center;"|1983 || style="text-align:right;"|1,195.00
|-
| [[CGP-220]] || 26-1268 || Color Inkjet || White || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=31 RSC-10, p.31] || style="text-align:center;"|1984 || style="text-align:right;"|699.00 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1986_rsc-15.html?fb3d-page=60 $599 RSC-15 p. 60]
|-
| DMP-120 || 26-1255 || Dot Matrix || White || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=32 RSC-10, p.32] || style="text-align:center;"|1984 || style="text-align:right;"|499.95
|-
| DMP-420 || 26-1267 || Dot Matrix || White || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=33 RSC-10, p.33] || style="text-align:center;"|1984 || style="text-align:right;"|999.00
|-
| DWP-210 || 26-1257 || Daisy Wheel || White ||Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=34 RSC-10, p.34] || style="text-align:center;"|1984 || style="text-align:right;"|799.00 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/m-sale_1984_379.html?fb3d-page=29 $599 SF-379]; [https://archive.org/details/80_Micro_1986-03_CW_Communications_US/page/n23/mode/2up?q=%22DWP-210%22 Discontinued March 86]
|-
| TP-10 || 26-1261 || Thermal || White || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=55 RSC-10, p.55] || style="text-align:center;"|1984 || style="text-align:right;"|99.95 || Narrow 4⅛" Paper; For CoCo & MC-10 '''only''' - no parallel port
|-
| DMP-110 || 26-1271 || Dot Matrix || White || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-11.html?fb3d-page=36 RSC-11, p.36] || style="text-align:center;"|1984 || style="text-align:right;"|399.00
|-
| TRP-100 || 26-1275 || Thermal || White || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1985_rsc-12.html?fb3d-page=37 RSC-12, p.37] || style="text-align:center;"|1985 || style="text-align:right;"|299.95 || Battery capable, meant especially for Model 100 laptop
|-
| DMP-105 || 26-1276 || Dot Matrix || White || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1985_rsc-12.html?fb3d-page=37 RSC-12, p.37] || style="text-align:center;"|1985 || style="text-align:right;"|199.95 || Tandy-branded by [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1986_rsc-15.html?fb3d-page=63 RSC-15, p.63]
|-
| DMP-430 || 26-1277 || Dot Matrix || White || Radio Shack || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1985_rsc-12.html?fb3d-page=36 RSC-12, p.36] || style="text-align:center;"|1985 || style="text-align:right;"|899.00
|-
| DWP-220 || 26-1278 || Daisy Wheel || White || Tandy || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1986_rsc-15.html?fb3d-page=61 RSC-15, p.61] || style="text-align:center;"|1985 || style="text-align:right;"|599.00
|-
| DMP-130 || 26-1280 || Dot Matrix || White || Tandy || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1986_rsc-15.html?fb3d-page=63 RSC-16, p.63] || style="text-align:center;"|1986 || style="text-align:right;"|349.95
|-
| DWP-230 || 26-2812 || Daisy Wheel || White || Tandy || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1987_rsc-17.html?fb3d-page=54 RSC-17, p.54] || style="text-align:center;"|1987 || style="text-align:right;"|399.95 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1990_rsc-21.html?fb3d-page=39 $459.95 RSC-21 p.39]; [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/m-sale_1987_04_87.html?fb3d-page=7 $299.95 SF-4 87]; [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/m-sale_1990_454.html?fb3d-page=12 $199.95 SF-454]
|-
| DMP-106 || 26-2802 || Dot Matrix || White || Tandy || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1988_rsc-19.html?fb3d-page=33 RSC-19, p.33] || style="text-align:center;"|1988 || style="text-align:right;"|219.95
|-
| DMP-440 || 26-2808 || Dot Matrix || White || Tandy || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1988_rsc-19.html?fb3d-page=32 RSC-19, p.32] || style="text-align:center;"|1988 || style="text-align:right;"|699.00
|-
| DMP-132 || 26-1814 || Dot Matrix || White || Tandy || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1989_rsc-20.html?fb3d-page=38 RSC-20, p.38] || style="text-align:center;"|1989 || style="text-align:right;"|379.95 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/m-sale_1989_442.html?fb3d-page=22 $219.95 SF-442]
|-
| DMP-133 || 26-1815 || Dot Matrix || White || Tandy || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1990_rsc-21.html?fb3d-page=39 RSC-21, p.39] || style="text-align:center;"|1990 || style="text-align:right;"|379.95 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/m-sale_1989_449.html?fb3d-page=19 $269.95 SF-449 ], [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/m-sale_1990_460.html?fb3d-page=22 $219.95 SF-460]
|-
| DMP-107 || 26-2821 || Dot Matrix || White || Tandy || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1990_rsc-21.html?fb3d-page=39 RSC-21, p.39] || style="text-align:center;"|1990 || style="text-align:right;"|279.95
|-
|}

Tandy also sold two of its CoCo printers under [[Tandy Data Products]] branding, to support the [[TDP-100]]. Both these printers came out in 1982 and had white cases. The TDP-branded version of Radio Shack's CoCo serial cable (Cat. No. 26-3020) was Stock Number 10-1270, also sold for $4.95. One authorized seller was [[Spectrum Projects]].

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ TDP Printers
|-
! Name !! Model/Stock No. !! Type !! Radio Shack Equivalent !! Price
|-
| Line Printer I || 10-1130 || Dot Matrix || Line Printer VII? DMP-100? || [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1982-11/page/n78/mode/1up 399.00]
|-
| Color Graphics Printer || 10-1100 || Color Plotter || CGP-115 || [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1982-11/page/n78/mode/1up 249.00]
|}

But before all this was the sole exception to Tandy-supported printers for the CoCo having a 4-pin DIN serial port. The very first printer Tandy marketed as being CoCo-compatible had a ''5''-pin DIN connector. To connect to a CoCo, it needed the Cat. No. 26-3009, a cable with the 5-pin DIN on one end and the CoCo's standard 4-pin DIN serial connector on the other. The cable was originally intended for the TRS-80 Model I and was called the Model I cassette special serial interface. The printer was soon dropped from Radio Shack's product lineup as soon as other, more practical CoCo printers became available.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ The First CoCo Printer
|-
! Name !! Cat. No. !! Type !! Case !! Branding !! RSC Year !! RSC Debut !! Debut Price || Notes
|-
| Quick Printer II || 26-1115 || Thermal || Silver || Radio Shack || 1979 (1981 for CoCo) || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1981_rsc-04.html?fb3d-page=30 RSC-04, p. 30] || style="text-align:right;"|219.00 || Ultra-narrow (2⅜") and expensive aluminum-coated paper
|}

Program Pak

2025-02-08T03:25:54Z

Carney:

[[Program Pak]] was Tandy/Radio Shack's name for its format of software cartridges designed for the CoCo's expansion/cartridge slot.

Each Program Pak's contact pins had a distinctive spring-loaded protective hard plastic sleeve which was pushed back into the cartridge when the cartridge was inserted into the CoCo, and which sprang back to its protective covering position when the cartridge was removed. This went a long way to making Radio Shack cartridges more durable than most other cartridge formats, in particular less vulnerable from their contacts being damaged by scratches, dust/dirt, and corrosion from being directly touched.

At launch and during the early period of the CoCo's lifecycle, most Radio Shack-branded software titles were released on Program Paks. Tandy soon began offering programs on cassette, and then, later, on diskette as well.

Third party developers usually released their titles on disk and/or tape from the start since that was much cheaper, since tapes and floppy disks were an industry standard and commonly available medium. However, there were a few non-Radio Shack program cartridges (such as ''Ghost Gobbler'', ''8-Ball'', and ''Whirlybird Run'' -- all of which were from Anteco Software.)

While (thanks to consoles such as the Atari 2600, as well as the Atari 800, TI-99/4A, Commodore VIC-20, and similar competitors) cartridges had long been associated with video games, and while most early Radio Shack CoCo video games were also on Program Paks, there were other, non-gaming programs also available in the cartridge format, such as the [[Color SCRIPSIT]] and [[Color SCRIPSIT II]] word processors and others.

The format was also used to expand the CoCo's capabilities, most notably to provide the CoCo with floppy disk capability. Both Tandy/Radio Shack disk drives, as well as third-party drives, used a cartridge to give the CoCo floppy driver firmware and a loader for a disk operating system (or at least a version of BASIC that could use the disk drive and had some core commands such as load, save, copy, list, delete, etc.).

Some other expansions from Radio Shack/Tandy included:

*[[Speech/Sound Cartridge]]
*[[Orchestra-90 CC]]
*[[Deluxe RS-232 Program Pak]]
*[[Direct Connect Modem Pak]]
*Hard Drive Controller
*[[Disto Super Controller]]
*XPad Controller
*WordPak RS 80 Column Adapter (for CoCo 2)[https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1988_rsc-19.html?fb3d-page=27]

The most notable third party non-disk controller cartridge was probably the
[[CoCo Max]] Joystick Driver.

One unusual cartridge-based peripheral was the Keyboard Beeper, reviewed by Peter Paplaskas in [https://colorcomputerarchive.com/repo/Documents/Magazines/Hot%20Coco/Hot%20Coco%20Vol.%201%20No.%2012%20-%20May%201984.pdfon p. 28 of the May 1984 issue] of ''[[HOT CoCo]]''. It's a cartridge that made the computer beep each time a key on the keyboard was pressed. While that may seem pointlessly annoying, it was meant for people typing in text or programs who needed to make sure that each keystroke was properly registered by the computer without having to take their eyes off the source text to glance at the monitor. That this product was even imagined, let alone actually made and sold, seems a clear indicator that the CoCo keyboard was either unreliable, or at least created a problem from the lack of a tactile "click" telling the user when a key had been depressed far enough.

MC-10 Micro Color Computer

2025-02-08T03:07:42Z

Carney: /* Third-Party Accessories / Upgrades */

{{NavCoCoRelatives}}
{{HardwareInfoBox |
| name = MC-10 Micro Color Computer
| photo = TRS-80 MC-10 Microcomputer.jpg
| year = 1984
| interface = serial, cassette, expansion slot, RF
| notes = 4K
| Info Source = see article citations
}}
The '''Radio Shack TRS-80 Micro Color Computer''' (also called the '''MC-10'''), first made available in 1984, was a small home computer in the era's typical "combined computer and keyboard" form factor. Tandy intended it to compete with the Timex Sinclair 1000, the low-price leader in US home computers at the time.

Despite sharing the "TRS-80 Color Computer" branding with the CoCo, and using the same [[Video Display Generator|Motorola MC6847 Video Display Generator (VDG)]], the MC-10 had significant differences with its bigger and older sibling, most notably in having a weaker and cheaper Motorola 6803 CPU rather than the CoCo's famously brawny [[6809]]. As a result, the two computers did not have full cross-compatibility, requiring at least some conversion/translation to be able to run each other's software, if at all.

The MC-10 did have the same cassette port used by other TRS-80 computers (such as the CoCo, the Model I/III/4, and the Model 100/200/102) and could use the same cassette cable (Catalog Number 26-1207) and computer tape drives they did, including the [[CCR-81]], [[CCR-82]], [[CCR-83]], and others.

The MC-10 also had the same 4-pin DIN serial port used by the CoCo and could use any [[CoCo Printers|CoCo-compatible printer]] or [[CoCo Modems|modem]]. Still, when launching the MC-10, Radio Shack also introduced a printer that, while CoCo-compatible, was intended especially for the MC-10's presumably cost-focused customers: the [[TP-10]], a small and cheap ($99) thermal printer using 4⅛" wide paper, which printed text at the exact 32 character line length provided for by the VDG the CoCo and MC-10 used. This printer was confined solely to CoCo and MC-10 use because - alone among Tandy/Radio Shack printers during the CoCo's run - it ONLY had a serial port (and the CoCo/MC-10 4-pin DIN variety at that), cutting costs by omitting the then industry-standard Centronics parallel printer port.

Although the MC-10 was "cute" and cheap, it was not well-suited for children because it had neither joystick ports nor a cartridge slot (although an enthusiast project has been able to use the expansion slot as a de facto cartridge port; [[MC-10_Micro_Color_Computer#Zippster_Zone|see the Zippster Zone section below]]). It was instead primarily aimed at electronics hobbyists (one of them had an MC-10 team up with a CoCo to control a robot derived from Radio Shack's popular Armatron robotic arm [https://archive.org/details/color-computer-magazine-1983-12/page/n21/mode/2up]) and first-time computer buyers who wanted to learn to program. Accordingly, its version of BASIC was powerful and its small keyboard enabled entire commands to be entered with minimal keystrokes.

While the MC-10 arguably made sense when Tandy began the project, the computer landscape was changing particularly rapidly at that time (even by the overall historical standards of that industry), so that by the time the MC-10 actually came out, the market had already changed due to various factors such as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983 video game crash of 1983] and the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_personal_computers#Commodore_price_war_and_crash Commodore-driven price wars] driving the price of mid-range home computers down much closer to the low-end MC-10's price point. With those pressures and a weak lineup of officially released software at time of launch, the MC-10 sold poorly; Tandy almost immediately gave up on it, releasing no new software or accessories and slashing the price to clear out the existing inventory.

The MC-10 was discontinued in 1985.

=Articles=
==MC-10 Previews and Reviews==

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Y=Year, M=Month, P=Page
|-
! Title !! Author !! Magazine !! Y !! M !! P
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/198307Rainbow/page/n167/mode/1up ''The Pipeline: MC-10''] || Staff || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|07 || style="text-align:right;"|164
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/color-computer-magazine-1983-08/page/n91/mode/2up ''REVIEW$: TRS-80 Micro Color Computer''] || Tim McFadden, Doug Kelley || ''[[The Color Computer Magazine]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|08 || style="text-align:right;"|88
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/Basic_Computing_Vol._VI_No._08_1983-08_80-Northwest_Publishing_US/page/n92/mode/2up ''Reviews: MC-10 Computer''] || Don Scarberry || ''[[Basic Computing]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|08|| style="text-align:right;"|93
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/198308Rainbow/page/174/mode/2up ''Technical Review: Kid CoCo is no Lightweight''] || [[Dan Downard]] || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|08|| style="text-align:right;"|174
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/Micro_NO._64_1983-09_Micro_Ink_US/page/n21/mode/2up ''CoCo Bits: The MC-10 Color Computer''] || John Steiner || ''Micro'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|09|| style="text-align:right;"|20
|-
| [https://colorcomputerarchive.com/repo/Documents/Magazines/80%20Micro/1983/80%20Micro%20-%208309%20-%20September%201983.pdf ''Reviews: Model MC-10 Micro Color Computer''] || Beve Woodbury || ''[[80 Micro]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|09|| style="text-align:right;"|38
|-
| [https://colorcomputerarchive.com/repo/Documents/Magazines/Hot%20Coco/Hot%20Coco%20Vol.%201%20No.%204%20-%20September%201983.pdf ''Review: The Mighty Mite MC-10''] || John S. Cullings || ''[[HOT CoCo]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|09|| style="text-align:right;"|66
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/creativecomputing-1983-10/page/n42/mode/1up ''The TRS-80 MC-10: Too Little, Too Late, for Too Much?''] || Owen Linzmayer || ''Creative Computing'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|10|| style="text-align:right;"|39
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/your-computer-magazine-1983-10/page/n69/mode/2up ''Review: Tandy (MC-10 and TP-10)''] || Kathleen Peel || ''Your Computer'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|10|| style="text-align:right;"|68
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/PersonalComputerWorld1983-11/page/144/mode/2up ''BenchTest: Tandy MC-10''] || Surya || ''Personal Computer World'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|11|| style="text-align:right;"|144
|-
|}

==Other Articles==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Title !! Author !! Magazine !! Y !! M !! P
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/color-computer-magazine-1983-09/page/n49/mode/2up Talk Together]'' || William Barden, Jr. || ''[[The Color Computer Magazine]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|09 || style="text-align:right;"|49
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/color-computer-magazine-1983-09/page/n79/mode/2up Custom Color]'' || [[Dennis Kitsz]] || ''[[The Color Computer Magazine]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|84 || style="text-align:center;"|09 || style="text-align:right;"|78
|}

=Accessories=
==Official Radio Shack==
===Only for MC-10===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Only for MC-10
|-
! Catalog Number !! Name !! Price !! Notes
|-
| 26-0529 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=41 MC-10 Dust Cover] || $4.95 || note: Cat # sometimes shown as 26-529 per Radio Shack's occasional practice of skipping 0 in a catalog number if it was the first digit in a segment)
|-
| 26-3013 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=55 16K RAM Module] || $9.95 || Only official use of expansion slot, bringing total RAM to 20K, up from the stock on-board 4K.
|}

===For CoCo and MC-10===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ For both CoCo and MC-10
|-
! Catalog Number !! Name !! Price !! Notes
|-
| 26-3195 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1985_rsc-12.html?fb3d-page=44 Book: ''TRS-80 Color Computer and MC-10 Programs''] || $5.95 || "Features 40 programs: games, quizzes, drills, calculators, and more"
|-
| 26-1261 || [[TP-10|Radio Shack TRS-80 TP-10]] Thermal Printer || $99 || For CoCo & MC-10 '''only''' - no parallel port
|-
| 26-1332 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=36 TP-10 Thermal Paper roll] (80 feet) (x2) || $3.95 || Narrow 4⅛" Paper
|-
| 26-0531 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=41 TP-10 Dust Cover] || $4.95 ||
|}

===For MC-10 and other TRS-80 Computers===

* [[CoCo Printers]]
* [[CoCo Modems]]
* [[Hardware#Tandy/Radio_Shack_Tape_Drive_Systems|Computer Cassette Drives]]
* [[Hardware#Monitors_and_displays|Displays]]

==Third-Party Accessories / Upgrades ==
===Back Then===
*From [[Green Mountain Micro]]:
**[https://archive.org/details/color-computer-magazine-1983-12/page/n29/mode/2up?q=%22MC-10%22 4K Upgrade Kit]: Increased on-board RAM from 4K to 8K without using up expansion slot
*[https://archive.org/details/HotCoco198404/page/n41/mode/2up PBH Computer Products CoCo Serial/Parallel Interface]. Specifically mentioned MC-10 in ad.

===Nowadays===
*[[Tandy/Radio Shack MC10 Disk Drive]]
*From the [[Zippster Zone]]:
**[https://thezippsterzone.com/2018/05/08/mc-10-composite/ Composite video out replacing the RF out]
**[https://thezippsterzone.com/2018/05/08/mc10-supercart/ "SuperCart" adding RAM, joystick ports, and a Yamaha music chip used by the MSX and Atari ST]
**[https://thezippsterzone.com/2020/06/12/mc-10-8k-internal-mod/ 8K internal mod]
**[https://thezippsterzone.com/mc-10-items-for-sale/ Other Items for Sale]

=Software=
==Official Radio Shack Software==

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Catalog Number !! Name !! Genre !! Price !! Notes
|-
| 26-3360 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=55 ''Micro Color Checkers''] || Game || $8.95 ||
|-
| 26-3361 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=55 ''Micro Color Games Pack''] || Game || $9.95 || Lunar Lander, Breakout, Hangman, Pong
|-
| 26-3362 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=55 ''Micro Color Math/Design Package''] || Math, Graphics || $9.95 ||
|-
| 26-3363 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=55 ''Micro Color Pinball''] also called ''Lost World Pinball'' || Game || $9.95 || Requires 16K RAM module. Dinosaur theme
|-
| 26-3350 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=55 ''Micro Compac''] || Telecom || $29.95 || Requires modem and serial cable
|}

==Third Party Commercial Software==

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Title !! Genre !! Publisher !! Price !! Notes
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/198307Rainbow/page/n167/mode/1up ''The Handicapper (Thoroughbred)''] || Horse racing betting guide || Federal Hill Software || $24.95 || Could be bundled with with harness version for $39.95 total
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/198307Rainbow/page/n167/mode/1up ''The Handicapper (Harness)''] || Horse racing betting guide || Federal Hill Software || $24.95 || Could be bundled with Thoroughbred version for $39.95 total
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/color-computer-magazine-1984-07/page/n91/mode/2up?q=%22MC-10%22 ''World Capitals''] || Education || Parallel Systems || $11.60* || *"Free" w/ order of 20 or more blank C-10 tapes at 58¢ each
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1983-10/page/n127/mode/2up?q=%22MC-10%22 ''Humbug''] || Debugging / monitor app || Star-Kits || $29.95|| All three Star-Kit apps also offered as a $55 bundle
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1983-10/page/n127/mode/2up?q=%22MC-10%22 ''RemoTerm''] || Remote terminal hosting|| Star-Kits || $19.95|| All three Star-Kit apps also offered as a $55 bundle
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1983-10/page/n127/mode/2up?q=%22MC-10%22 ''CommTerm''] || Telecom || Star-Kits || $19.95|| All three Star-Kit apps also offered as a $55 bundle
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/manualzilla-id-5648057/page/n111/mode/2up?q=MC ''The Nuclear Survival Program''] || Game (?) || Moses Engineering || $7
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/family-computing-15/page/n141/mode/2up?q=%22MC-10%22 ''The Home-PAC™''] || Various || Simplex Software || $19.95 || 20 "educational, graphics, recreational, home finance and utility applications"
|}

==Other Software==
===Internet Archive===
*[https://archive.org/details/software?tab=collection&query=mc-10 Internet Archive MC-10 Software List]. 850 titles! Mostly conversions of BASIC programs from other platforms, but wow
===Jim Gerrie===
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20240930080658/http://faculty.cbu.ca/jgerrie/Home/jgames.html Jim & Charlie Gerrie's MC-10 Games (archived version)]; [http://faculty.cbu.ca/jgerrie/Home/jgames.html original] is down
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20240315021950/http://faculty.cbu.ca/jgerrie/Home/MC-10Programmers.html MC-10 Games from Other Programmers (archived version)]; [https://web.archive.org/web/20240930080658/http://faculty.cbu.ca/jgerrie/Home/jgames.html original] is down
===Zippster Zone===
*[https://thezippsterzone.com/2018/05/07/mc-10-game-carts/ Game Cartridges]. Finally someone took advantage of the expansion port to make cartridges

=External Resources=
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_MC-10 Wikipedia MC-10 Article]
*[https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=55 Radio Shack Computer Catalog's MC-10 Listing]
*From Jim Gerrie:
**[http://jimgerrie.blogspot.com/ MC-10 Programming Blog]
**[https://www.youtube.com/user/BenevolentChum/videos MC-10 YouTube channel]

Printing

2025-02-08T02:52:11Z

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=Feature Articles=

In 9 of the 13 years it was published in, ''[[The Rainbow]]'' had printing as the theme topic for one month's issue (usually May).

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Y=Year, M=Month, P=Page
|-
! Title !! Printer / ''Program'' / Product !! Author !! Magazine !! Y !! M !! P
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1981-08/page/n3/mode/2up LP VII Driver]'' || [[Line Printer VII]] || || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|81 || style="text-align:center;"|07 || style="text-align:right;"|03
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1981-08/page/n3/mode/2up Printer Status]'' || || || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|81 || style="text-align:center;"|08 || style="text-align:right;"|04
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1981-08/page/n5/mode/2up Screen Printer]'' || || || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|81 || style="text-align:center;"|08 || style="text-align:right;"|06
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1981-09/page/n11/mode/2up Graphics Printer]'' || Printers ''other than'' [[Line Printer VII]] || || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|81 || style="text-align:center;"|09 || style="text-align:right;"|13
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1981-10/page/n2/mode/2up Videoprinter (Videotex)]'' || || Al Morgan || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|81 || style="text-align:center;"|10 || style="text-align:right;"|03
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1981-10/page/n2/mode/2up Videoprinter (Videotex)]'' || || Jorge Mir || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|81 || style="text-align:center;"|10 || style="text-align:right;"|03
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1981-10/page/n4/mode/2up Really Using PRINT USING]'' || || - || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|81 || style="text-align:center;"|10 || style="text-align:right;"|04
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1981-10/page/n4/mode/2up Sticky Labels (for Line Printer VII)]'' || [[Line Printer VII]] || - || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|81 || style="text-align:center;"|10 || style="text-align:right;"|04
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1982-03/page/n29/mode/2up Disk Directory Printout]'' || ''Directory Lister'' || Charles J. Roslund || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|82 || style="text-align:center;"|03 || style="text-align:right;"|31
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1982-05/page/n43/mode/2up An El Cheapo Printer Stand]'' || || || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|82 || style="text-align:center;"|05 || style="text-align:right;"|45
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/198206Rainbow/page/n19/mode/2up Printers: An Overview of Some Features]'' || || [[Lonnie Falk]] || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|82 || style="text-align:center;"|06 || style="text-align:right;"|21
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1982-09/page/n49/mode/2up Here Are Some Useful Utilities for Your Use]'' || ''Line Width Driver'' for [[Line Printer VII|LP VII]], ''Graphics Driver'', ''Speed Adjuster'' || Jim Schmidt || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|82 || style="text-align:center;"|09 || style="text-align:right;"|51
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1982-09/page/n71/mode/2up Missing Graphics? Here Are Graphics!]'' || Graphics for non-graphic printers || David Steyer || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|82 || style="text-align:center;"|09 || style="text-align:right;"|72
|-
| ''[https://colorcomputerarchive.com/repo/Documents/Magazines/Color%20Computer%20News/Color%20Computer%20News%20%2317%20-%20February%201983.pdf Re-Inking That L.P. VII Cassette Ribbon]'' || [[Line Printer VII]] || Joseph A. Ryan || ''[[Color Computer News]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|02 || style="text-align:right;"|22
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1983-06/page/n19/mode/2up Building a Color Computer to Epson MX Printer Interface]'' || Epson MX series || Dennis Snyder || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|06 || style="text-align:right;"|20
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1983-06/page/n29/mode/2up Spruce Up Your Tapes With This Cassette Label Print Program]'' || [[DMP-200]] || J. D. Ray || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|06 || style="text-align:right;"|30
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1983-06/page/n154/mode/1up Line Printer Conversion Chart]'' || || Staff || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|06 || style="text-align:right;"|156
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1983-06/page/n244/mode/1up Printer Spooling Will Increase Your Throughput]'' || [[Line Printer VII]] etc || Steve Good || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|06 || style="text-align:right;"|246
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1983-06/page/n247/mode/2up Using the Block Graphics of the Okidata 82A]'' || Okidata 82A || Thomas F. Szlucha || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|06 || style="text-align:right;"|250
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1983-11/page/n203/mode/2up Custom Interface for the Gemini-10]'' || Gemini-10 and -15 || William R. Hall || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|11 || style="text-align:right;"|202
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/HotCoco198404/page/n47/mode/2up Parallel Printer Interfaces]'' || Various Parallel Adapters || Cynthia Smith and Celeste Wren || ''[[HOT CoCo]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|84 || style="text-align:center;"|04 || style="text-align:right;"|50
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/HotCoco198404/page/n61/mode/2up The CoCo/FX-80 Connection]'' || Epson FX-80 || Steve Eichman || ''[[HOT CoCo]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|84 || style="text-align:center;"|04 || style="text-align:right;"|64
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/198405Rainbow/page/n17/mode/2up A Little Printer Magic]'' || || Dennis H. Weide || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|84 || style="text-align:center;"|05 || style="text-align:right;"|18
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/198405Rainbow/page/n21/mode/2up Make the Good 'Spooler' Better]'' || [[Line Printer VII]], [[DMP-100]] series, etc || Damon Swanson || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|84 || style="text-align:center;"|05 || style="text-align:right;"|23
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/198405Rainbow/page/n39/mode/2up Color Graphic Banner]'' || [[CGP-220]] || Doug Lindsay || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|84 || style="text-align:center;"|05 || style="text-align:right;"|41
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/198405Rainbow/page/n53/mode/2up Printer Maintenance Revival]'' || Gemini 10 || Barry E. Becker || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|84 || style="text-align:center;"|05 || style="text-align:right;"|54
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/198405Rainbow/page/n65/mode/2up BoldType: A Tutorial on the Use of Dot Graphics]'' || [[Line Printer VII]], [[DMP-100]] series, etc || Mike Fahy || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|84 || style="text-align:center;"|05 || style="text-align:right;"|67
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/198405Rainbow/page/n73/mode/2up The Mail Mover]'' || [[Line Printer VII]] || Charles M. Thonen || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|84 || style="text-align:center;"|05 || style="text-align:right;"|74
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/198405Rainbow/page/n83/mode/2up Fred's Postcard Whacker]'' || || Don Hughes, Jesse James || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|84 || style="text-align:center;"|05 || style="text-align:right;"|84
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/198505Rainbow/page/n17/mode/2up Pictures Perfect with Prowriter]'' || || Michael B. Kromeke || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|85 || style="text-align:center;"|05 || style="text-align:right;"|18
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/198505Rainbow/page/n41/mode/2up Neat Little Columns Two-By-Two]'' || || Steven Lai || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|85 || style="text-align:center;"|05 || style="text-align:right;"|42
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/198505Rainbow/page/n43/mode/2up Get the Picture with Gemini Screen Print]'' || Gemini 10X || Richard Lack || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|85 || style="text-align:center;"|05 || style="text-align:right;"|45
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/198505Rainbow/page/n67/mode/2up Personalize Your Printouts With Script]'' || || Benjamin W. Brunotte || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|85 || style="text-align:center;"|05 || style="text-align:right;"|68
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/198505Rainbow/page/n88/mode/2up Putting the Okidata ML92 to Work]'' || Okidata ML92 || Joseph Kohn || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|85 || style="text-align:center;"|05 || style="text-align:right;"|89
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/198505Rainbow/page/n171/mode/2up PURCHASE ORDER: The Order Recorder]'' || All & Okidata ML92 || Joseph Kohn || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|85 || style="text-align:center;"|05 || style="text-align:right;"|172
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/198505Rainbow/page/n177/mode/2up Printer Comparison Chart]'' || Various || James R. Dean || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|85 || style="text-align:center;"|05 || style="text-align:right;"|178
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/manualzilla-id-5853428/page/52/mode/1up Fabulous Fonts for the Gemini-10X]'' || Gemini 10X || || ''[[HOT CoCo]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|85 || style="text-align:center;"|06 || style="text-align:right;"|52
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/HotCocoVol.3No.01June1985/Hot%20Coco%20Vol.%203%20No.%2007%20-%20December%201985/page/n37/mode/2up Greetings from the CGP-115]'' || [[CGP-115]] || John B. Shaw || ''[[HOT CoCo]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|85 || style="text-align:center;"|12 || style="text-align:right;"|35
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/HotCocoVol.3No.01June1985/Hot%20Coco%20Vol.%203%20No.%2009%20-%20February%201986/page/n41/mode/2up Making the Connection]'' || Non-Tandy printers || Fred Blechman || ''[[HOT CoCo]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|86 || style="text-align:center;"|02 || style="text-align:right;"|40
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1986-05/page/n73/mode/2up Picprt: Good Things Come in All Sizes]'' || DMP series || Mark Sullins || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|86 || style="text-align:center;"|05 || style="text-align:right;"|72
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1986-05/page/n89/mode/2up Plain Jane Print Needs an Appointment with the Stylist]'' || Epsons || James J. Ruggles || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|86 || style="text-align:center;"|05 || style="text-align:right;"|88
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1986-05/page/n121/mode/2up Outfox Those Narrow Printers with 'Rotate']'' || [[DMP-120]] || John West || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|86 || style="text-align:center;"|05 || style="text-align:right;"|120
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1986-05/page/n151/mode/2up Give Your Thoughts to the World: The Old-Time Banner Printer]'' || [[DMP-105]] || Ray Ligocki || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|86 || style="text-align:center;"|05 || style="text-align:right;"|150
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1986-05/page/n223/mode/2up Changing Printer Parameters in Pascal]'' || Star SG-10, Gemini, Epson MX/FX || Dennis H. Weide || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|86 || style="text-align:center;"|05 || style="text-align:right;"|222
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1987-05/page/n25/mode/2up That's the Ticket]'' || [[CGP-220]] || Kathryn Rocci || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|87 || style="text-align:center;"|05 || style="text-align:right;"|26
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1987-05/page/n37/mode/2up The Spit and Image]'' || 7-pin Tandy graphical || Allen Snook || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|87 || style="text-align:center;"|05 || style="text-align:right;"|36
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1987-05/page/n91/mode/2up Four Shades of Gray (Color Dump)]'' || Star SG-10 || Pierre Salvall || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|87 || style="text-align:center;"|05 || style="text-align:right;"|91
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1987-05/page/n91/mode/2up Library (Cassette Box) Labeler]'' || Star SG-10 || Alan L. Andrews || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|87 || style="text-align:center;"|05 || style="text-align:right;"|91
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1987-05/page/n91/mode/2up Sized to Fit]'' || Gemini 10X || Alan L. Andrews || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|87 || style="text-align:center;"|05 || style="text-align:right;"|91
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1987-05/page/n92/mode/2up Double Duty]'' || Star SG-10 || Blake C. Hughes || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|87 || style="text-align:center;"|05 || style="text-align:right;"|92
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1987-05/page/n93/mode/2up Printing with Style]'' || [[DMP-105]], ''Print Font'' || Blake C. Hughes || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|87 || style="text-align:center;"|05 || style="text-align:right;"|93
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1987-05/page/n105/mode/2up The DMP-105 Takes a Bow]'' || ''[[DMP-105]] Dumper'' || Drue King || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|87 || style="text-align:center;"|05 || style="text-align:right;"|104
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1987-05/page/n179/mode/2up Pretty Little Listings, All in a Row]'' || [[DMP-130]] || George Quellhorst || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|87 || style="text-align:center;"|05 || style="text-align:right;"|178
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1988-05/page/n41/mode/2up CoCo 3 Color Dump]'' || [[CGP-220]] || Duane M. Perkins || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|88 || style="text-align:center;"|05 || style="text-align:right;"|42
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1988-05/page/n57/mode/2up PMODE Polychrome]'' || [[CGP-220]] || Tracy L. Skaggs || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|88 || style="text-align:center;"|05 || style="text-align:right;"|58
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1988-05/page/n91/mode/2up Ticket Maker]'' || || Ed Schenck || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|88 || style="text-align:center;"|05 || style="text-align:right;"|91
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1988-05/page/n41/mode/2up A Full-Page Dump for the DMP-105]'' || [[DMP-105]] || John Handis || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|88 || style="text-align:center;"|05 || style="text-align:right;"|42
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1988-05/page/n95/mode/2up Printing in Two Columns]'' || Epson MX-80, [[VIP Writer]] || Charles E. Brown || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|88 || style="text-align:center;"|05 || style="text-align:right;"|95
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1988-05/page/n111/mode/2up Printer Overview]'' || various || Ed Ellers || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|88 || style="text-align:center;"|05 || style="text-align:right;"|110
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1988-05/page/n111/mode/2up Center That Header]'' || [[DMP-110]] || Doug Anderson || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|88 || style="text-align:center;"|05 || style="text-align:right;"|110
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1988-05/page/n111/mode/2up Bulletin Board Standout]'' || [[DMP-130]] || George Quellhorst || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|88 || style="text-align:center;"|05 || style="text-align:right;"|110
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1988-05/page/n155/mode/2up Adding the HPRINT Capability to PMODE 4]'' || || Douglas Pokorny || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|88 || style="text-align:center;"|05 || style="text-align:right;"|155
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1988-08/page/n143/mode/2up Printer Diversions and Conversions]'' || printer control codes || Cray Augsburg || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|88 || style="text-align:center;"|08 || style="text-align:right;"|142
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1989-06/page/n139/mode/2up PR.B09: A Print Utility for OS-9]'' || ''PR.B09'', [[OS-9]] || Richard Ries || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|89 || style="text-align:center;"|06 || style="text-align:right;"|136
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1990-05/page/n47/mode/2up Larry's Labeler]'' || Star NX-10, [[OS-9]] || Larry Pittman || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|90 || style="text-align:center;"|06 || style="text-align:right;"|46
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1991-05/page/n27/mode/2up The Printer Primer]'' || || Cray Augsburg || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|91 || style="text-align:center;"|05 || style="text-align:right;"|28
|-
| ''[https://www.fabsitesuk.com/tandy/trs8bit_year13.pdf TRS-80 Printers ... Series Part 8: ... Colour Printers]'' || [[CGP-220]], etc (some non-CoCo printers) || [[Ian Mavric]] || ''[[TRS8Bit]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|19 || style="text-align:center;"|03 || style="text-align:right;"|13
|-
|}

=Reviews=

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Y=Year, M=Month, P=Page
|-
! Title !! Product !! Author !! Magazine !! Y !! M !! P
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1981-12/page/n9/mode/2up ''CPRINT''] || Micro-Labs ''CPRINT'' Rompak || || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|81 || style="text-align:center;"|12 || style="text-align:right;"|11
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1982-05/page/n13/mode/2up ''High Quality Screen Print is Excellent''] || ''Graphic Screen Print Program'' || || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|82 || style="text-align:center;"|05 || style="text-align:right;"|14
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/198206Rainbow/page/n53/mode/2up Paper Porter is Helpful for Printer]'' || Paper Porter || David R. Barr || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|82 || style="text-align:center;"|07 || style="text-align:right;"|54
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/80-U.S._Volume_V_Number_11_1982-11_80-Northwest_Publishing_US/page/n111/mode/2up PRINTCC version 1.4: Color Computer and 16K Model I/III]'' || ''PRINTCC'' || J. L. Latham || ''[[80-U.S.]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|82 || style="text-align:center;"|11 || style="text-align:right;"|111
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1983-06/page/n207/mode/2up ''Outlook Is Bright For 'Smart' DMP-200''] || [[DMP-200]] || John Fernald || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|06 || style="text-align:right;"|210
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1983-06/page/n85/mode/2up ''This Board Makes It Easy To Use A Parallel Printer''] || [[Spectrum Projects]] Epson Board || Dave Mercer || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|06 || style="text-align:right;"|88
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/TRS-80_Microcomputer_News_Volume_5_Issue_10_1983-10_Radio_Shack_US/page/n51/mode/2up ''The CGP-220 Ink Jet Printer''] || [[CGP-220]] || Linda Miller || ''[[TRS-80 Microcomputer News]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|10 || style="text-align:right;"|53
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1983-11/page/n243/mode/2up ''Color Ink Jet Printer Is Sensational CoCo Peripheral''] || [[CGP-220]] || [[Lonnie Falk]] || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|11|| style="text-align:right;"|242
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/PersonalComputerNews/PersonalComputerNews039-07Dec1983/page/n35/mode/2up ''Technicolour Tandy''] || [[CGP-220]] || Bill Davies || ''Personal Computer News'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|12 || style="text-align:right;"|35
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/198401Rainbow/page/n125/mode/2up The CGP-115 Printer: A Considerable Upgrade]'' || [[CGP-115]] || Thomas Szulcha || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|84 || style="text-align:center;"|01 || style="text-align:right;"|120
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/color-computer-magazine-1984-01/page/n147/mode/2up DWP-210 Daisy Wheel Printer]'' || [[DWP-210]] || Jamie Tietjen || ''[[The Color Computer Magazine]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|84 || style="text-align:center;"|01 || style="text-align:right;"|46
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_UCIvSU6Y2GAC/page/n227/mode/2up A Member of the Ink-Jet Set]'' || [[CGP-220]] || Mark Zachmann || ''PC Magazine'' || style="text-align:center;"|84 || style="text-align:center;"|02 || style="text-align:right;"|226
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/dragon-user-magazine-11/page/n19/mode/2up Printing Power]'' || [[CGP-220]], [[CGP-115|MCP-40(CGP-115)]] || Michael Matts || ''Dragon User'' || style="text-align:center;"|84 || style="text-align:center;"|03 || style="text-align:right;"|20
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/198405Rainbow/page/n237/mode/2up New Friction Option for Printers]''|| Paper Tractor || Steve Schechter || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|84 || style="text-align:center;"|05 || style="text-align:right;"|38
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/creativecomputing-1984-06/page/n233/mode/2up TRS-80 Strings: CGP-220 Seven-Color Ink Jet Printer]''|| [[CGP-220]] || Stephen B. Gray || ''Creative Computing'' || style="text-align:center;"|84 || style="text-align:center;"|06 || style="text-align:right;"|226
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/color-computer-magazine-1984-08/page/n107/mode/2up Gemini 10X Dot-Matrix Printer]''|| Gemini 10X || Joseph A. Ryan || ''[[The Color Computer Magazine]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|84 || style="text-align:center;"|08 || style="text-align:right;"|106
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/color-computer-magazine-1984-08/page/n108/mode/2up DMP-120 Printer]''|| [[DMP-120]] || Norman Garrett || ''[[The Color Computer Magazine]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|84 || style="text-align:center;"|08 || style="text-align:right;"|106
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/PC-Mag-1984-11-27/page/n351/mode/2up Radio Shack CGP-220]''|| [[CGP-220]] || Vincent Puglia || ''PC Magazine'' || style="text-align:center;"|84 || style="text-align:center;"|11 || style="text-align:right;"|358
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/80-microcomputing-magazine-1984-11/page/n39/mode/2up Priced-Less Printers: Three Radio Shack Entries]''|| [[DMP-110]], [[DMP-120]], [[DMP-420]] || Beve Woodbury || ''[[80 Micro]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|84 || style="text-align:center;"|11 || style="text-align:right;"|38
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/popular-computing-1984-12/page/n125/mode/2up Meet the Jet Set]''|| [[CGP-220]] || Phillip Johnson || ''Popular Computing'' || style="text-align:center;"|84 || style="text-align:center;"|12 || style="text-align:right;"|110
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/80-microcomputing-magazine-1985-01/page/n37/mode/2up Color Me Beautiful: Radio Shack's CGP-220 Color Printer]''|| [[CGP-220]] || Bradford N. Dixon || ''[[80 Micro]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|85 || style="text-align:center;"|01 || style="text-align:right;"|36
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/198505Rainbow/page/n191/mode/1up "How To Use Your Radio Shack Printer" Provides Thorough Information]'' || ''How to Use Your Radio Shack Printer'' (book) || Jim Sewell || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|85 || style="text-align:center;"|05 || style="text-align:right;"|192
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/198505Rainbow/page/n226/mode/1up Micro-Grip V Gives the Option of Friction Feed]'' || Micro-Grip V || Charles Springer || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|85 || style="text-align:center;"|05 || style="text-align:right;"|227
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/198505Rainbow/page/n194/mode/1up Print True Lowercase Descenders with DMP-100 Line Printer Conversion]'' || Electronic Closet [[DMP-100]] LP Conversion || Bob Brown || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|85 || style="text-align:center;"|05 || style="text-align:right;"|195
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/HotCocoVol.3No.01June1985/Hot%20Coco%20Vol.%203%20No.%2009%20-%20February%201986/page/n27/mode/2up The Word on Print Master]'' || ''Print Master'' || Bobby Ballard || ''[[HOT CoCo]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|86 || style="text-align:center;"|02 || style="text-align:right;"|26
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1986-06/page/n174/mode/2up Options Galore with "CGP-220 Screen Dump Package"]'' || ''[[CGP-220]] Screen Dump Package'' || Cray Augsburg || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|86 || style="text-align:center;"|06 || style="text-align:right;"|173
|}

=Related=
See [[CoCo Printers]]

User:Carney

2025-02-07T22:42:35Z

Carney:

Carney userpage.

''Compute!'' magazine CoCo review. [https://colorcomputerarchive.com/repo/Documents/Magazines/Compute/Compute_Issue_007_1980_Nov_Dec.pdf via CoCo Archive Issue 7, Nov-Dec 1980, page 150 (152 of the PDF scan)]. Positive, got the author to consider TRS-80, helped make the magazine abandon its 6502 focus.

Note to self:

[https://archive.org/details/80-U.S._Volume_IV_Number_5_1981-09_80-Northwest_Publishing_US/page/n133/mode/2up CoCobug review in ''80-U.S.''] 
[https://archive.org/details/80-U.S._Volume_IV_Number_6_1981-11_80-Northwest_Publishing_US/page/n119/mode/2up ''80-U.S.'' CoCo game reviews for CoCo first anniversary] 
[https://archive.org/details/80-U.S._Volume_V_Number_01_1982-01_80-Northwest_Publishing_US/page/n41/mode/2up Expand CoCo memory]

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Modems
|-
! Brand !! Name !! Full Name !! Cat. No. !! Color !! Speed!! RSC !! Year !! Price || RSC/SF Price History
|-
| Tandy || DCM-8 || Direct Connect Modem 8 || 26-1393 || White || style="text-align:right;"|300 || || style="text-align:center;"|198x|| style="text-align:right;"|59.95 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/m-sale_1990_460.html?fb3d-page=23 $19.95 SF-460]
|-

|}

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Color Computer Models
|-
! Brand !! Name !! Cat. No. !! Case !! Vents !! Badge !! Keyboard !! RAM !! BASIC !! RSC !! Year !! Price || RSC/SF Price History
|-
| Radio Shack || Color Computer || 26-3001 || Silver || style="text-align:center;"|Corners || style="text-align:center;"|Left || style="text-align:center;"|Chiclet || style="text-align:right;|4K || style="text-align:center;"|Color || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1981_rsc-04.html?fb3d-page=29 1981 RSC-4] || style="text-align:center;"|1980|| style="text-align:right;"|399.00 ||
|-
| Radio Shack || Color Computer || 26-3002 || Silver || style="text-align:center;"|Corners || style="text-align:center;"|Left || style="text-align:center;"|Chiclet || style="text-align:right;|16K || style="text-align:center;"|Extended || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1981_rsc-04.html?fb3d-page=29 1981 RSC-4] || style="text-align:center;"|1980|| style="text-align:right;"|599.00 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1983_rsc-08.html?fb3d-page=47 8: $499.95], [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1983_rsc-09.html?fb3d-page=47 9: $399.95]
|-
| Radio Shack || Color Computer || 26-3003 || Silver || style="text-align:center;"|Corners || style="text-align:center;"|Left || style="text-align:center;"|Chiclet || style="text-align:right;|32K || style="text-align:center;"|Extended || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1982_rsc-06.html?fb3d-page=37 1982 RSC-6] || style="text-align:center;"|1981|| style="text-align:right;"|749.00 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1982_rsc-07.html?fb3d-page=43 7: $699], [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1983_rsc-08.html?fb3d-page=47 8: $649.95] [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1983_rsc-09.html?fb3d-page=47 9: $549.95]
|-
| Radio Shack || Color Computer || 26-3004 || Silver || style="text-align:center;"|Corners || style="text-align:center;"|Left || style="text-align:center;"|Chiclet || style="text-align:right;|16K || style="text-align:center;"|Color || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1983_rsc-08.html?fb3d-page=30 1983 RSC-8] || style="text-align:center;"|1982|| style="text-align:right;"|399.00 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1983_rsc-09.html?fb3d-page=46 9: $299.95],
|-
| Radio Shack || [[Color_Computer_1#64K_(26-3003B)_white_case_CoCo_1|Color Computer]] || 26-3003B || White || style="text-align:center;"|Across || style="text-align:center;"|Center || style="text-align:center;"|Melted || style="text-align:right;|64K || style="text-align:center;"|Color || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=49 1984 RSC-10] || style="text-align:center;"|1983|| style="text-align:right;"|399.95 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/m-sale_1984_377.html?fb3d-page=31 377: 199.95]
|-
| Radio Shack || Color Computer 2 || 26-3026 || White || style="text-align:center;"|Across || style="text-align:center;"|Center || style="text-align:center;"|Melted || style="text-align:right;|16K || style="text-align:center;"|Color || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=48 1984 RSC-10] || style="text-align:center;"|1983|| style="text-align:right;"|239.95 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-11.html?fb3d-page=52 11: 159.95], [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-11.html?fb3d-page=53 12: 119.95]
|-
| Radio Shack || Color Computer 2 || 26-3027 || White || style="text-align:center;"|Across || style="text-align:center;"|Center || style="text-align:center;"|Melted || style="text-align:right;|16K || style="text-align:center;"|Extended || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=48 1984 RSC-10] || style="text-align:center;"|1983|| style="text-align:right;"|319.95 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/m-sale_1983_371.html?fb3d-page=5 371: 239.95] [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-11.html?fb3d-page=52 11: 199.95], [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-11.html?fb3d-page=53 12: 159.95]
|-
| Radio Shack || Color Computer 2 || 26-3127 || White || style="text-align:center;"|Across || style="text-align:center;"|Center || style="text-align:center;"|Full || style="text-align:right;|64K || style="text-align:center;"|Extended || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-11.html?fb3d-page=53 1984 RSC-11] || style="text-align:center;"|1984|| style="text-align:right;"|259.95 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1985_rsc-14.html?fb3d-page=44 14: 219.95], [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1986_rsc-16.html?fb3d-page=80 16: 199.95], [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1987_rsc-17.html?fb3d-page=36 17: 159.95], [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1987_rsc-17b.html?fb3d-page=36 17B: 99.95]
|-
| Tandy || Color Computer 3 || 26-3334 || White || style="text-align:center;"|Across || style="text-align:center;"|Center || style="text-align:center;"|Full || style="text-align:right;|128K || style="text-align:center;"|Extended || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1987_rsc-17.html?fb3d-page=36 1987 RSC-17] || style="text-align:center;"|1986|| style="text-align:right;"|219.95 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1987_rsc-17b.html?fb3d-page=36 19: 199.95], [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/m-sale_1989_449.html?fb3d-page=20 449: 129.95]
|}

[[Sock Master]]
[[CoCo Town]] 
[https://www.youtube.com/@CocoTownRetro CoCo Town YouTube Channel] 
[https://cocotownretro.wordpress.com/ CoCo Town blog and code repository] 
[https://www.youtube.com/@The_CoCo_Nation The CoCo Nation] 
[[The CoCo Nation]]
[[Donkey King]]
[[Cartridge]]
[[Trackball]]
[[MM/1]]

User:Carney

2025-02-07T22:40:16Z

Carney: Compute! CoCo review

Carney userpage.

''Compute!'' magazine CoCo review. [https://colorcomputerarchive.com/repo/Documents/Magazines/Compute/Compute_Issue_007_1980_Nov_Dec.pdf via CoCo Archive Issue 7, Nov-Dec 1980, page 150 (152 of the PDF scan)]. Positive, got the author to consider TRS-80, helped make the magazine abandon its 6502 focus.

Note to self:

[https://archive.org/details/80-U.S._Volume_IV_Number_5_1981-09_80-Northwest_Publishing_US/page/n133/mode/2up CoCobug review in ''80-U.S.''] 
[https://archive.org/details/80-U.S._Volume_IV_Number_6_1981-11_80-Northwest_Publishing_US/page/n119/mode/2up ''80-U.S.'' CoCo game reviews for CoCo first anniversary] 
[https://archive.org/details/80-U.S._Volume_V_Number_01_1982-01_80-Northwest_Publishing_US/page/n41/mode/2up Expand CoCo memory]

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Modems
|-
! Brand !! Name !! Full Name !! Cat. No. !! Color !! Speed!! RSC !! Year !! Price || RSC/SF Price History
|-
| Tandy || DCM-8 || Direct Connect Modem 8 || 26-1393 || White || style="text-align:right;"|300 || || style="text-align:center;"|198x|| style="text-align:right;"|59.95 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/m-sale_1990_460.html?fb3d-page=23 $19.95 SF-460]
|-

|}

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Color Computer Models
|-
! Brand !! Name !! Cat. No. !! Case !! Vents !! Badge !! Keyboard !! RAM !! BASIC !! RSC !! Year !! Price || RSC/SF Price History
|-
| Radio Shack || Color Computer || 26-3001 || Silver || style="text-align:center;"|Corners || style="text-align:center;"|Left || style="text-align:center;"|Chiclet || style="text-align:right;|4K || style="text-align:center;"|Color || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1981_rsc-04.html?fb3d-page=29 1981 RSC-4] || style="text-align:center;"|1980|| style="text-align:right;"|399.00 ||
|-
| Radio Shack || Color Computer || 26-3002 || Silver || style="text-align:center;"|Corners || style="text-align:center;"|Left || style="text-align:center;"|Chiclet || style="text-align:right;|16K || style="text-align:center;"|Extended || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1981_rsc-04.html?fb3d-page=29 1981 RSC-4] || style="text-align:center;"|1980|| style="text-align:right;"|599.00 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1983_rsc-08.html?fb3d-page=47 8: $499.95], [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1983_rsc-09.html?fb3d-page=47 9: $399.95]
|-
| Radio Shack || Color Computer || 26-3003 || Silver || style="text-align:center;"|Corners || style="text-align:center;"|Left || style="text-align:center;"|Chiclet || style="text-align:right;|32K || style="text-align:center;"|Extended || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1982_rsc-06.html?fb3d-page=37 1982 RSC-6] || style="text-align:center;"|1981|| style="text-align:right;"|749.00 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1982_rsc-07.html?fb3d-page=43 7: $699], [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1983_rsc-08.html?fb3d-page=47 8: $649.95] [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1983_rsc-09.html?fb3d-page=47 9: $549.95]
|-
| Radio Shack || Color Computer || 26-3004 || Silver || style="text-align:center;"|Corners || style="text-align:center;"|Left || style="text-align:center;"|Chiclet || style="text-align:right;|16K || style="text-align:center;"|Color || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1983_rsc-08.html?fb3d-page=30 1983 RSC-8] || style="text-align:center;"|1982|| style="text-align:right;"|399.00 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1983_rsc-09.html?fb3d-page=46 9: $299.95],
|-
| Radio Shack || Color Computer || 26-3003B || White || style="text-align:center;"|Across || style="text-align:center;"|Center || style="text-align:center;"|Melted || style="text-align:right;|64K || style="text-align:center;"|Color || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=49 1984 RSC-10] || style="text-align:center;"|1983|| style="text-align:right;"|399.95 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/m-sale_1984_377.html?fb3d-page=31 377: 199.95]
|-
| Radio Shack || Color Computer 2 || 26-3026 || White || style="text-align:center;"|Across || style="text-align:center;"|Center || style="text-align:center;"|Melted || style="text-align:right;|16K || style="text-align:center;"|Color || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=48 1984 RSC-10] || style="text-align:center;"|1983|| style="text-align:right;"|239.95 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-11.html?fb3d-page=52 11: 159.95], [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-11.html?fb3d-page=53 12: 119.95]
|-
| Radio Shack || Color Computer 2 || 26-3027 || White || style="text-align:center;"|Across || style="text-align:center;"|Center || style="text-align:center;"|Melted || style="text-align:right;|16K || style="text-align:center;"|Extended || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=48 1984 RSC-10] || style="text-align:center;"|1983|| style="text-align:right;"|319.95 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/m-sale_1983_371.html?fb3d-page=5 371: 239.95] [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-11.html?fb3d-page=52 11: 199.95], [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-11.html?fb3d-page=53 12: 159.95]
|-
| Radio Shack || Color Computer 2 || 26-3127 || White || style="text-align:center;"|Across || style="text-align:center;"|Center || style="text-align:center;"|Full || style="text-align:right;|64K || style="text-align:center;"|Extended || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-11.html?fb3d-page=53 1984 RSC-11] || style="text-align:center;"|1984|| style="text-align:right;"|259.95 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1985_rsc-14.html?fb3d-page=44 14: 219.95], [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1986_rsc-16.html?fb3d-page=80 16: 199.95], [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1987_rsc-17.html?fb3d-page=36 17: 159.95], [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1987_rsc-17b.html?fb3d-page=36 17B: 99.95]
|-
| Tandy || Color Computer 3 || 26-3334 || White || style="text-align:center;"|Across || style="text-align:center;"|Center || style="text-align:center;"|Full || style="text-align:right;|128K || style="text-align:center;"|Extended || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1987_rsc-17.html?fb3d-page=36 1987 RSC-17] || style="text-align:center;"|1986|| style="text-align:right;"|219.95 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1987_rsc-17b.html?fb3d-page=36 19: 199.95], [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/m-sale_1989_449.html?fb3d-page=20 449: 129.95]
|}

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TDP-100

2025-02-07T21:50:10Z

Carney: /* Official TDP-Branded Accessories and Software */

{{NavCoCoRelatives}}
{{InfoBox |
| caption = TDP-100
| photo = TDP-100.jpg
| date =
| year = 1982
| notes = gold 64K badge is aftermarket
| infosource = see references
}}

The '''Tandy Data Products System 100''', or '''TDP-100''', was a Color Computer made by Tandy but marketed by Radio Corporation of America (RCA). The TDP-100 was notable in being marketed outside Tandy's traditional distribution channel of Radio Shack stores; instead being sold by retailers that sold RCA products. Tandy also made some otherwise-standard CoCo software and peripherals that were TDP-branded.

Tandy announced the TDP-100 in July 1982. [https://archive.org/details/sim_80-micro_1982-11_34/page/n471/mode/2up]

==Articles==

[[Bob Rosen]] of [[Spectrum Projects]] gave the TDP-100 [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1983-02/page/n153/mode/2up a favorable review in the February 1983 issue] of ''[[The Rainbow]]'' and in [https://archive.org/details/color-computer-magazine-1983-03/page/n59/mode/2up the April 1983 issue] of ''[[The Color Computer Magazine]]''. Somewhat strangely, he called TDP "Tandy ''Distributor'' Products" instead of "Tandy Data Products". Anyway, he was clearly impressed enough with the machine to have Spectrum Projects become a TDP-100 retailer, [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1982-11/page/n78/mode/1up as advertised in the November 1982 ''Rainbow'']. (Hmm several months before writing his reviews, which did not mention him selling the product. CoCo fans can most likely forgive the apparent conflict of interest from such a stalwart supporter of the platform.)

In May 1983, John Steiner, in Issue 60 of ''Micro'' (formerly ''Micro 6502 Journal''), warned users of early-model TDPs: "There is no buffering between the processor and ROM slot, nor is there any between the controller input and ROM. A failure of either unit can easily damage both. As a precaution, be sure the power is off several seconds before reinstalling a card in the slot." [https://archive.org/details/Micro_NO._60_1983-05_Micro_Ink_US/page/n18/mode/1up]

In September 1983, Steiner, in Issue 64 of ''Micro'', passed along an important tip from Ron Krebs of [[Mark Data Products]]. It provides specifics (including part names and numbers) to fix a problem with high-resolution color graphics in early-model TDP-100s. [https://archive.org/details/micro-6502-journal-64/page/n21/mode/2up].

==Official TDP-Branded Accessories and Software==

This is just a list of '''''specifically TDP-branded''''' products. Obviously, the TDP-100 was not limited to only being able to use these products; since it could (with extremely rare exceptions) use any CoCo 1/2 program or accessory, regardless of whether that CoCo product was an official TDP-branded product, or a Tandy / Radio Shack-branded product, or from a third party. Similarly, any CoCo could use any TDP-branded product.
TDP used "Stock Numbers" rather than Radio Shack Catalog Numbers.
All TDP-branded programs could run on the base model 16K TDP-100, with no Extended BASIC ROM necessary.
All these products had Radio Shack equivalents. When no "Radio Shack" equivalent name is given, the Radio Shack version's name was the same as the TDP version's.
All TDP-branded programs were [[Program Pak]]s, except ''Learning Lab'', which was on tape.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Stock No. !! Product Name !! Radio Shack Equivalent !! RS Cat # !! Nov. 82 Price !! Notes
|-
| 10-1100 || Color Graphics Printer I || CGP-115 || 26-1192 || style="text-align:right;"|249.95 || Really a plotter, not a printer. Used 4½" wide roll paper
|-
| 10-1101 || Plotter Pens for 10-1100 Black x3 || || 26-1480 || style="text-align:right;"|2.95 ||
|-
| 10-1102 || 4⅞" Paper Roll for 10-1100 x3 || || 26-1428 || style="text-align:right;"|4.95 ||
|-
| 10-1103 || Plotter Pens for 10-1100 1 red 1 blue 1 green || || 26-1481 || style="text-align:right;"|2.95 ||
|-
| 10-1130 || Line Printer I || DMP-100 || 26-1253 || style="text-align:right;"|399.00 ||
|-
| 10-1131 || 9½" Paper for 10-1130 (500 sheets) || || 26-1423 || style="text-align:right;"|7.95 ||
|-
| 10-1132 || Ribbon for 10-1130 || || 26-1424 || style="text-align:right;"|8.95 ||
|-
| 10-1150 || Mini-Disk Drive || [[26-3022|Color Computer Mini Disk Drive #0]] || [[26-3022]] || style="text-align:right;"|599.00 || "Mini" = 5¼"; comparison was to 8" floppies
|-
| 10-1151 || 5¼" Diskette || || 26-0305 || style="text-align:right;"|3.95 ||
|-
| 10-1200|| "Black Beauty" Joystick (x2?) || || 26-3008 || style="text-align:right;"|12.95 ||
|-
| 10-1210 || Computer Dust Cover || Color Computer Dust Cover || 26-3006 || style="text-align:right;"|4.95 ||
|-
| 10-1250 || Computer Cassette Recorder || [[CCR-81]] || 26-1208 || style="text-align:right;"|59.95 ||
|-
| 10-1251 || Computer Cassette Tape (CT-10) || C-10 || 26-0302 || style="text-align:right;"|1.79 ||
|-
| 10-1252 || Computer Cassette Tape (CT-20) || C-20 || 26-0301 || style="text-align:right;"|3.69 ||
|-
| 10-1270|| Serial Cable 4-pin DIN to 4-pin DIN || || 26-3020 || style="text-align:right;"|4.95 ||
|-
| 10-1290 || Modem I || Direct Connect Modem I ||26-1172 || style="text-align:right;"|149.00 ||
|-
| 10-1300 || ''Bustout'' || || 26-3056 || style="text-align:right;"|29.95 || [[Clone]] of ''Breakout''; called ''Super Bustout'' inside the manual
|-
| 10-1301 || ''Space Assault''|| || 26-3060 || style="text-align:right;"|29.95 || [[Clone]] of ''Space Invaders''
|-
| 10-1302 || ''Project Nebula'' || || 26-3063 || style="text-align:right;"|39.95 ||
|-
| 10-1303 || ''Polaris'' || || 26-3065 || style="text-align:right;"|29.95 || [[Clone]] / derivative of ''Missile Command''
|-
| 10-1304 || ''Micro Painter'' || || 26-3077 || style="text-align:right;"|39.95 || Coloring book app. Radio Shack sold more pictures on tape
|-
| 10-1305 || ''Microbes'' || || 26-3085 || style="text-align:right;"|29.95 || [[Clone]] / derivative of ''Asteroids''
|-
| 10-1306 || ''Shooting Gallery'' || || 26-3088 || style="text-align:right;"|29.95 ||
|-
| 10-1307 || ''Personal Finance'' || || 26-3106 || style="text-align:right;"|39.95 ||
|-
| 10-1308 || ''Color File'' || || 26-3103 || style="text-align:right;"|29.95 || Database, saves files to tape
|-
| 10-1309 || ''Spectaculator'' || || 26-3104 || style="text-align:right;"|39.95 || Spreadsheet, saves files to tape
|-
| 10-1310 || ''Color Scripsit'' || || 26-3105 || style="text-align:right;"|39.95 || Word processor, saves files to tape
|-
| 10-1311 || ''Learning Lab'' || ''Color Computer Learning Lab'' || 26-3153 || style="text-align:right;"|39.95 ||
|-
| 10-1312 || ''Videotex'' || || 26-2222 || style="text-align:right;"|29.95 || [[Telecommunications]] app
|-
| 10-1313 || ''Chess'' || || 26-3050 || style="text-align:right;"|39.95||
|-
|}

==External Links==
*[https://tandydataproducts.com Tandy Data Products] Enthusiast website
*[https://www.facebook.com/groups/tandydataproducts/ TDP or Tandy Data Products] Facebook public group
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQdxZaXBp6o&t=6458s TDP Talk!] CoCoTalk! Episode 132 segment focused on TDP
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5GrlkaxF5o TDP System 100 - The Color Computer's Cousin] VintageGeek Episode on YouTube

TDP-100

2025-02-07T21:47:44Z

Carney: /* Official TDP-Branded Accessories and Software */ confirmed TDP-LP1 was the TRS-80 DMP-100 [https://archive.org/details/198307Rainbow/page/n168/mode/1up]

{{NavCoCoRelatives}}
{{InfoBox |
| caption = TDP-100
| photo = TDP-100.jpg
| date =
| year = 1982
| notes = gold 64K badge is aftermarket
| infosource = see references
}}

The '''Tandy Data Products System 100''', or '''TDP-100''', was a Color Computer made by Tandy but marketed by Radio Corporation of America (RCA). The TDP-100 was notable in being marketed outside Tandy's traditional distribution channel of Radio Shack stores; instead being sold by retailers that sold RCA products. Tandy also made some otherwise-standard CoCo software and peripherals that were TDP-branded.

Tandy announced the TDP-100 in July 1982. [https://archive.org/details/sim_80-micro_1982-11_34/page/n471/mode/2up]

==Articles==

[[Bob Rosen]] of [[Spectrum Projects]] gave the TDP-100 [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1983-02/page/n153/mode/2up a favorable review in the February 1983 issue] of ''[[The Rainbow]]'' and in [https://archive.org/details/color-computer-magazine-1983-03/page/n59/mode/2up the April 1983 issue] of ''[[The Color Computer Magazine]]''. Somewhat strangely, he called TDP "Tandy ''Distributor'' Products" instead of "Tandy Data Products". Anyway, he was clearly impressed enough with the machine to have Spectrum Projects become a TDP-100 retailer, [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1982-11/page/n78/mode/1up as advertised in the November 1982 ''Rainbow'']. (Hmm several months before writing his reviews, which did not mention him selling the product. CoCo fans can most likely forgive the apparent conflict of interest from such a stalwart supporter of the platform.)

In May 1983, John Steiner, in Issue 60 of ''Micro'' (formerly ''Micro 6502 Journal''), warned users of early-model TDPs: "There is no buffering between the processor and ROM slot, nor is there any between the controller input and ROM. A failure of either unit can easily damage both. As a precaution, be sure the power is off several seconds before reinstalling a card in the slot." [https://archive.org/details/Micro_NO._60_1983-05_Micro_Ink_US/page/n18/mode/1up]

In September 1983, Steiner, in Issue 64 of ''Micro'', passed along an important tip from Ron Krebs of [[Mark Data Products]]. It provides specifics (including part names and numbers) to fix a problem with high-resolution color graphics in early-model TDP-100s. [https://archive.org/details/micro-6502-journal-64/page/n21/mode/2up].

==Official TDP-Branded Accessories and Software==

This is just a list of '''''specifically TDP-branded''''' products. Obviously, the TDP-100 was not limited to only being able to use these products; since it could (with extremely rare exceptions) use any CoCo 1/2 program or accessory, regardless of whether that CoCo product was an official TDP-branded product, or a Tandy / Radio Shack-branded product, or from a third party. Similarly, any CoCo could use any TDP-branded product.
TDP used "Stock Numbers" rather than Radio Shack Catalog Numbers.
All TDP-branded programs could run on the base model 16K TDP-100, with no Extended BASIC ROM necessary.
All these products had Radio Shack equivalents. When no "Radio Shack" equivalent name is given, the Radio Shack version's name was the same as the TDP version's.
All TDP-branded programs were [[Program Pak]]s, except ''Learning Lab'', which was on tape.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Stock No. !! Product Name !! Radio Shack Equivalent !! RS Cat # !! Nov. 82 Price !! Notes
|-
| 10-1100 || Color Graphics Printer I || CGP-115 || 26-1192 || style="text-align:right;"|249.95 || Really a plotter, not a printer. Used 4½" wide roll paper
|-
| 10-1101 || Plotter Pens for 10-1100 Black x3 || || 26-1480 || style="text-align:right;"|2.95 ||
|-
| 10-1102 || 4⅞" Paper Roll for 10-1100 x3 || || 26-1428 || style="text-align:right;"|4.95 ||
|-
| 10-1103 || Plotter Pens for 10-1100 1 red 1 blue 1 green || || 26-1481 || style="text-align:right;"|2.95 ||
|-
| 10-1130 || Line Printer I || DMP-100 || 26-1253 || style="text-align:right;"|399.00 ||
|-
| 10-1131 || 9½" Paper for 10-1130 (500 sheets) || || 26-1423 || style="text-align:right;"|7.95 ||
|-
| 10-1132 || Ribbon for 10-1130 || || 26-1424 || style="text-align:right;"|8.95 ||
|-
| 10-1150 || Mini-Disk Drive || [[26-3022|Color Computer Mini Disk Drive #0]] || [[26-3022]] || style="text-align:right;"|599.00 ||
|-
| 10-1151 || 5¼" Diskette || || 26-0305 || style="text-align:right;"|3.95 ||
|-
| 10-1200|| "Black Beauty" Joystick (x2?) || || 26-3008 || style="text-align:right;"|12.95 ||
|-
| 10-1210 || Computer Dust Cover || Color Computer Dust Cover || 26-3006 || style="text-align:right;"|4.95 ||
|-
| 10-1250 || Computer Cassette Recorder || [[CCR-81]] || 26-1208 || style="text-align:right;"|59.95 ||
|-
| 10-1251 || Computer Cassette Tape (CT-10) || C-10 || 26-0302 || style="text-align:right;"|1.79 ||
|-
| 10-1252 || Computer Cassette Tape (CT-20) || C-20 || 26-0301 || style="text-align:right;"|3.69 ||
|-
| 10-1270|| Serial Cable 4-pin DIN to 4-pin DIN || || 26-3020 || style="text-align:right;"|4.95 ||
|-
| 10-1290 || Modem I || Direct Connect Modem I ||26-1172 || style="text-align:right;"|149.00 ||
|-
| 10-1300 || ''Bustout'' || || 26-3056 || style="text-align:right;"|29.95 || [[Clone]] of ''Breakout''; called ''Super Bustout'' inside the manual
|-
| 10-1301 || ''Space Assault''|| || 26-3060 || style="text-align:right;"|29.95 || [[Clone]] of ''Space Invaders''
|-
| 10-1302 || ''Project Nebula'' || || 26-3063 || style="text-align:right;"|39.95 ||
|-
| 10-1303 || ''Polaris'' || || 26-3065 || style="text-align:right;"|29.95 || [[Clone]] / derivative of ''Missile Command''
|-
| 10-1304 || ''Micro Painter'' || || 26-3077 || style="text-align:right;"|39.95 || Coloring book app. Radio Shack sold more pictures on tape
|-
| 10-1305 || ''Microbes'' || || 26-3085 || style="text-align:right;"|29.95 || [[Clone]] / derivative of ''Asteroids''
|-
| 10-1306 || ''Shooting Gallery'' || || 26-3088 || style="text-align:right;"|29.95 ||
|-
| 10-1307 || ''Personal Finance'' || || 26-3106 || style="text-align:right;"|39.95 ||
|-
| 10-1308 || ''Color File'' || || 26-3103 || style="text-align:right;"|29.95 || Database, saves files to tape
|-
| 10-1309 || ''Spectaculator'' || || 26-3104 || style="text-align:right;"|39.95 || Spreadsheet, saves files to tape
|-
| 10-1310 || ''Color Scripsit'' || || 26-3105 || style="text-align:right;"|39.95 || Word processor, saves files to tape
|-
| 10-1311 || ''Learning Lab'' || ''Color Computer Learning Lab'' || 26-3153 || style="text-align:right;"|39.95 ||
|-
| 10-1312 || ''Videotex'' || || 26-2222 || style="text-align:right;"|29.95 || [[Telecommunications]] app
|-
| 10-1313 || ''Chess'' || || 26-3050 || style="text-align:right;"|39.95||
|-
|}

==External Links==
*[https://tandydataproducts.com Tandy Data Products] Enthusiast website
*[https://www.facebook.com/groups/tandydataproducts/ TDP or Tandy Data Products] Facebook public group
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQdxZaXBp6o&t=6458s TDP Talk!] CoCoTalk! Episode 132 segment focused on TDP
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5GrlkaxF5o TDP System 100 - The Color Computer's Cousin] VintageGeek Episode on YouTube

MC-10 Micro Color Computer

2025-02-06T20:31:21Z

Carney:

{{NavCoCoRelatives}}
{{HardwareInfoBox |
| name = MC-10 Micro Color Computer
| photo = TRS-80 MC-10 Microcomputer.jpg
| year = 1984
| interface = serial, cassette, expansion slot, RF
| notes = 4K
| Info Source = see article citations
}}
The '''Radio Shack TRS-80 Micro Color Computer''' (also called the '''MC-10'''), first made available in 1984, was a small home computer in the era's typical "combined computer and keyboard" form factor. Tandy intended it to compete with the Timex Sinclair 1000, the low-price leader in US home computers at the time.

Despite sharing the "TRS-80 Color Computer" branding with the CoCo, and using the same [[Video Display Generator|Motorola MC6847 Video Display Generator (VDG)]], the MC-10 had significant differences with its bigger and older sibling, most notably in having a weaker and cheaper Motorola 6803 CPU rather than the CoCo's famously brawny [[6809]]. As a result, the two computers did not have full cross-compatibility, requiring at least some conversion/translation to be able to run each other's software, if at all.

The MC-10 did have the same cassette port used by other TRS-80 computers (such as the CoCo, the Model I/III/4, and the Model 100/200/102) and could use the same cassette cable (Catalog Number 26-1207) and computer tape drives they did, including the [[CCR-81]], [[CCR-82]], [[CCR-83]], and others.

The MC-10 also had the same 4-pin DIN serial port used by the CoCo and could use any [[CoCo Printers|CoCo-compatible printer]] or [[CoCo Modems|modem]]. Still, when launching the MC-10, Radio Shack also introduced a printer that, while CoCo-compatible, was intended especially for the MC-10's presumably cost-focused customers: the [[TP-10]], a small and cheap ($99) thermal printer using 4⅛" wide paper, which printed text at the exact 32 character line length provided for by the VDG the CoCo and MC-10 used. This printer was confined solely to CoCo and MC-10 use because - alone among Tandy/Radio Shack printers during the CoCo's run - it ONLY had a serial port (and the CoCo/MC-10 4-pin DIN variety at that), cutting costs by omitting the then industry-standard Centronics parallel printer port.

Although the MC-10 was "cute" and cheap, it was not well-suited for children because it had neither joystick ports nor a cartridge slot (although an enthusiast project has been able to use the expansion slot as a de facto cartridge port; [[MC-10_Micro_Color_Computer#Zippster_Zone|see the Zippster Zone section below]]). It was instead primarily aimed at electronics hobbyists (one of them had an MC-10 team up with a CoCo to control a robot derived from Radio Shack's popular Armatron robotic arm [https://archive.org/details/color-computer-magazine-1983-12/page/n21/mode/2up]) and first-time computer buyers who wanted to learn to program. Accordingly, its version of BASIC was powerful and its small keyboard enabled entire commands to be entered with minimal keystrokes.

While the MC-10 arguably made sense when Tandy began the project, the computer landscape was changing particularly rapidly at that time (even by the overall historical standards of that industry), so that by the time the MC-10 actually came out, the market had already changed due to various factors such as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_crash_of_1983 video game crash of 1983] and the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_personal_computers#Commodore_price_war_and_crash Commodore-driven price wars] driving the price of mid-range home computers down much closer to the low-end MC-10's price point. With those pressures and a weak lineup of officially released software at time of launch, the MC-10 sold poorly; Tandy almost immediately gave up on it, releasing no new software or accessories and slashing the price to clear out the existing inventory.

The MC-10 was discontinued in 1985.

=Articles=
==MC-10 Previews and Reviews==

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Y=Year, M=Month, P=Page
|-
! Title !! Author !! Magazine !! Y !! M !! P
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/198307Rainbow/page/n167/mode/1up ''The Pipeline: MC-10''] || Staff || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|07 || style="text-align:right;"|164
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/color-computer-magazine-1983-08/page/n91/mode/2up ''REVIEW$: TRS-80 Micro Color Computer''] || Tim McFadden, Doug Kelley || ''[[The Color Computer Magazine]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|08 || style="text-align:right;"|88
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/Basic_Computing_Vol._VI_No._08_1983-08_80-Northwest_Publishing_US/page/n92/mode/2up ''Reviews: MC-10 Computer''] || Don Scarberry || ''[[Basic Computing]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|08|| style="text-align:right;"|93
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/198308Rainbow/page/174/mode/2up ''Technical Review: Kid CoCo is no Lightweight''] || [[Dan Downard]] || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|08|| style="text-align:right;"|174
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/Micro_NO._64_1983-09_Micro_Ink_US/page/n21/mode/2up ''CoCo Bits: The MC-10 Color Computer''] || John Steiner || ''Micro'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|09|| style="text-align:right;"|20
|-
| [https://colorcomputerarchive.com/repo/Documents/Magazines/80%20Micro/1983/80%20Micro%20-%208309%20-%20September%201983.pdf ''Reviews: Model MC-10 Micro Color Computer''] || Beve Woodbury || ''[[80 Micro]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|09|| style="text-align:right;"|38
|-
| [https://colorcomputerarchive.com/repo/Documents/Magazines/Hot%20Coco/Hot%20Coco%20Vol.%201%20No.%204%20-%20September%201983.pdf ''Review: The Mighty Mite MC-10''] || John S. Cullings || ''[[HOT CoCo]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|09|| style="text-align:right;"|66
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/creativecomputing-1983-10/page/n42/mode/1up ''The TRS-80 MC-10: Too Little, Too Late, for Too Much?''] || Owen Linzmayer || ''Creative Computing'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|10|| style="text-align:right;"|39
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/your-computer-magazine-1983-10/page/n69/mode/2up ''Review: Tandy (MC-10 and TP-10)''] || Kathleen Peel || ''Your Computer'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|10|| style="text-align:right;"|68
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/PersonalComputerWorld1983-11/page/144/mode/2up ''BenchTest: Tandy MC-10''] || Surya || ''Personal Computer World'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|11|| style="text-align:right;"|144
|-
|}

==Other Articles==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Title !! Author !! Magazine !! Y !! M !! P
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/color-computer-magazine-1983-09/page/n49/mode/2up Talk Together]'' || William Barden, Jr. || ''[[The Color Computer Magazine]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|09 || style="text-align:right;"|49
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/color-computer-magazine-1983-09/page/n79/mode/2up Custom Color]'' || [[Dennis Kitsz]] || ''[[The Color Computer Magazine]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|84 || style="text-align:center;"|09 || style="text-align:right;"|78
|}

=Accessories=
==Official Radio Shack==
===Only for MC-10===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Only for MC-10
|-
! Catalog Number !! Name !! Price !! Notes
|-
| 26-0529 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=41 MC-10 Dust Cover] || $4.95 || note: Cat # sometimes shown as 26-529 per Radio Shack's occasional practice of skipping 0 in a catalog number if it was the first digit in a segment)
|-
| 26-3013 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=55 16K RAM Module] || $9.95 || Only official use of expansion slot, bringing total RAM to 20K, up from the stock on-board 4K.
|}

===For CoCo and MC-10===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ For both CoCo and MC-10
|-
! Catalog Number !! Name !! Price !! Notes
|-
| 26-3195 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1985_rsc-12.html?fb3d-page=44 Book: ''TRS-80 Color Computer and MC-10 Programs''] || $5.95 || "Features 40 programs: games, quizzes, drills, calculators, and more"
|-
| 26-1261 || [[TP-10|Radio Shack TRS-80 TP-10]] Thermal Printer || $99 || For CoCo & MC-10 '''only''' - no parallel port
|-
| 26-1332 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=36 TP-10 Thermal Paper roll] (80 feet) (x2) || $3.95 || Narrow 4⅛" Paper
|-
| 26-0531 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=41 TP-10 Dust Cover] || $4.95 ||
|}

===For MC-10 and other TRS-80 Computers===

* [[CoCo Printers]]
* [[CoCo Modems]]
* [[Hardware#Tandy/Radio_Shack_Tape_Drive_Systems|Computer Cassette Drives]]
* [[Hardware#Monitors_and_displays|Displays]]

==Third-Party Accessories / Upgrades ==
*[[Tandy/Radio Shack MC10 Disk Drive]]
*From [[Green Mountain Micro]]:
**[https://archive.org/details/color-computer-magazine-1983-12/page/n29/mode/2up?q=%22MC-10%22 4K Upgrade Kit]: Increased on-board RAM from 4K to 8K without using up expansion slot
*From the [[Zippster Zone]]:
**[https://thezippsterzone.com/2018/05/08/mc-10-composite/ Composite video out replacing the RF out]
**[https://thezippsterzone.com/2018/05/08/mc10-supercart/ "SuperCart" adding RAM, joystick ports, and a Yamaha music chip used by the MSX and Atari ST]
**[https://thezippsterzone.com/2020/06/12/mc-10-8k-internal-mod/ 8K internal mod]
**[https://thezippsterzone.com/mc-10-items-for-sale/ Other Items for Sale]

=Software=
==Official Radio Shack Software==

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Catalog Number !! Name !! Genre !! Price !! Notes
|-
| 26-3360 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=55 ''Micro Color Checkers''] || Game || $8.95 ||
|-
| 26-3361 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=55 ''Micro Color Games Pack''] || Game || $9.95 || Lunar Lander, Breakout, Hangman, Pong
|-
| 26-3362 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=55 ''Micro Color Math/Design Package''] || Math, Graphics || $9.95 ||
|-
| 26-3363 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=55 ''Micro Color Pinball''] also called ''Lost World Pinball'' || Game || $9.95 || Requires 16K RAM module. Dinosaur theme
|-
| 26-3350 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=55 ''Micro Compac''] || Telecom || $29.95 || Requires modem and serial cable
|}

==Third Party Commercial Software==

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Title !! Genre !! Publisher !! Price !! Notes
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/198307Rainbow/page/n167/mode/1up ''The Handicapper (Thoroughbred)''] || Horse racing betting guide || Federal Hill Software || $24.95 || Could be bundled with with harness version for $39.95 total
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/198307Rainbow/page/n167/mode/1up ''The Handicapper (Harness)''] || Horse racing betting guide || Federal Hill Software || $24.95 || Could be bundled with Thoroughbred version for $39.95 total
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/color-computer-magazine-1984-07/page/n91/mode/2up?q=%22MC-10%22 ''World Capitals''] || Education || Parallel Systems || $11.60* || *"Free" w/ order of 20 or more blank C-10 tapes at 58¢ each
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1983-10/page/n127/mode/2up?q=%22MC-10%22 ''Humbug''] || Debugging / monitor app || Star-Kits || $29.95|| All three Star-Kit apps also offered as a $55 bundle
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1983-10/page/n127/mode/2up?q=%22MC-10%22 ''RemoTerm''] || Remote terminal hosting|| Star-Kits || $19.95|| All three Star-Kit apps also offered as a $55 bundle
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1983-10/page/n127/mode/2up?q=%22MC-10%22 ''CommTerm''] || Telecom || Star-Kits || $19.95|| All three Star-Kit apps also offered as a $55 bundle
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/manualzilla-id-5648057/page/n111/mode/2up?q=MC ''The Nuclear Survival Program''] || Game (?) || Moses Engineering || $7
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/family-computing-15/page/n141/mode/2up?q=%22MC-10%22 ''The Home-PAC™''] || Various || Simplex Software || $19.95 || 20 "educational, graphics, recreational, home finance and utility applications"
|}

==Other Software==
===Internet Archive===
*[https://archive.org/details/software?tab=collection&query=mc-10 Internet Archive MC-10 Software List]. 850 titles! Mostly conversions of BASIC programs from other platforms, but wow
===Jim Gerrie===
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20240930080658/http://faculty.cbu.ca/jgerrie/Home/jgames.html Jim & Charlie Gerrie's MC-10 Games (archived version)]; [http://faculty.cbu.ca/jgerrie/Home/jgames.html original] is down
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20240315021950/http://faculty.cbu.ca/jgerrie/Home/MC-10Programmers.html MC-10 Games from Other Programmers (archived version)]; [https://web.archive.org/web/20240930080658/http://faculty.cbu.ca/jgerrie/Home/jgames.html original] is down
===Zippster Zone===
*[https://thezippsterzone.com/2018/05/07/mc-10-game-carts/ Game Cartridges]. Finally someone took advantage of the expansion port to make cartridges

=External Resources=
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_MC-10 Wikipedia MC-10 Article]
*[https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=55 Radio Shack Computer Catalog's MC-10 Listing]
*From Jim Gerrie:
**[http://jimgerrie.blogspot.com/ MC-10 Programming Blog]
**[https://www.youtube.com/user/BenevolentChum/videos MC-10 YouTube channel]

MC-10 Micro Color Computer

2025-02-06T19:34:16Z

Carney:

{{NavCoCoRelatives}}
{{HardwareInfoBox |
| name = MC-10 Micro Color Computer
| photo = TRS-80 MC-10 Microcomputer.jpg
| year = 1984
| interface = serial, cassette, expansion slot, RF
| notes = 4K
| Info Source = see article citations
}}
The '''Radio Shack TRS-80 Micro Color Computer''' (also called the '''MC-10'''), first made available in 1984, was a small home computer in the era's typical "combined computer and keyboard" form factor. Tandy intended it to compete with the Timex Sinclair 1000, the low-price leader in US home computers at the time.

Despite sharing the "TRS-80 Color Computer" branding with the CoCo, and using the same [[Video Display Generator|Motorola MC6847 Video Display Generator (VDG)]], the MC-10 had significant differences with its bigger and older sibling, most notably in having a weaker and cheaper Motorola 6803 CPU rather than the CoCo's famously brawny [[6809]]. As a result, the two computers did not have full cross-compatibility, requiring at least some conversion/translation to be able to run each other's software, if at all.

The MC-10 did have the same cassette port used by other TRS-80 computers (such as the CoCo, the Model I/III/4, and the Model 100/200/102) and could use the same cassette cable (Catalog Number 26-1207) and computer tape drives they did, including the [[CCR-81]], [[CCR-82]], [[CCR-83]], and others.

The MC-10 also had the same 4-pin DIN serial port used by the CoCo and could use any [[CoCo Printers|CoCo-compatible printer]] or [[CoCo Modems|modem]]. Still, when launching the MC-10, Radio Shack also introduced a printer that, while CoCo-compatible, was intended especially for the MC-10's presumably cost-focused customers: the [[TP-10]], a small and cheap ($99) thermal printer using 4⅛" wide paper, which printed text at the exact 32 character line length provided for by the VDG the CoCo and MC-10 used. This printer was confined solely to CoCo and MC-10 use because - alone among Tandy/Radio Shack printers during the CoCo's run - it ONLY had a serial port (and the CoCo/MC-10 4-pin DIN variety at that), cutting costs by omitting the then industry-standard Centronics parallel printer port.

Although the MC-10 was "cute" and cheap, it was not well-suited for children because it had neither joystick ports nor a cartridge slot (although an enthusiast project has been able to use the expansion slot as a de facto cartridge port; [[MC-10_Micro_Color_Computer#Zippster_Zone|see the Zippster Zone section below]]). It was instead primarily aimed at electronics hobbyists (one of them had an MC-10 team up with a CoCo to control a robot derived from Radio Shack's popular Armatron robotic arm [https://archive.org/details/color-computer-magazine-1983-12/page/n21/mode/2up]) and first-time computer buyers who wanted to learn to program. Accordingly, its version of BASIC was powerful and its small keyboard enabled entire commands to be entered with minimal keystrokes.

While the MC-10 arguably made sense when Tandy began the project, the computer landscape was changing particularly rapidly at that time (even by the overall historical standards of that industry), so that by the time the MC-10 actually came out, the market had already changed due to various factors such as video game crash of 1983 and the Commodore-driven price wars driving the price of mid-range home computers down much closer to the low-end MC-10's price point. With those pressures and a weak lineup of officially released software at time of launch, the MC-10 sold poorly; Tandy almost immediately gave up on it, releasing no new software or accessories and slashing the price to clear out the existing inventory.

The MC-10 was discontinued in 1985.

=Articles=
==MC-10 Previews and Reviews==

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Y=Year, M=Month, P=Page
|-
! Title !! Author !! Magazine !! Y !! M !! P
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/198307Rainbow/page/n167/mode/1up ''The Pipeline: MC-10''] || Staff || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|07 || style="text-align:right;"|164
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/color-computer-magazine-1983-08/page/n91/mode/2up ''REVIEW$: TRS-80 Micro Color Computer''] || Tim McFadden, Doug Kelley || ''[[The Color Computer Magazine]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|08 || style="text-align:right;"|88
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/Basic_Computing_Vol._VI_No._08_1983-08_80-Northwest_Publishing_US/page/n92/mode/2up ''Reviews: MC-10 Computer''] || Don Scarberry || ''[[Basic Computing]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|08|| style="text-align:right;"|93
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/198308Rainbow/page/174/mode/2up ''Technical Review: Kid CoCo is no Lightweight''] || [[Dan Downard]] || ''[[The Rainbow]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|08|| style="text-align:right;"|174
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/Micro_NO._64_1983-09_Micro_Ink_US/page/n21/mode/2up ''CoCo Bits: The MC-10 Color Computer''] || John Steiner || ''Micro'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|09|| style="text-align:right;"|20
|-
| [https://colorcomputerarchive.com/repo/Documents/Magazines/80%20Micro/1983/80%20Micro%20-%208309%20-%20September%201983.pdf ''Reviews: Model MC-10 Micro Color Computer''] || Beve Woodbury || ''[[80 Micro]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|09|| style="text-align:right;"|38
|-
| [https://colorcomputerarchive.com/repo/Documents/Magazines/Hot%20Coco/Hot%20Coco%20Vol.%201%20No.%204%20-%20September%201983.pdf ''Review: The Mighty Mite MC-10''] || John S. Cullings || ''[[HOT CoCo]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|09|| style="text-align:right;"|66
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/creativecomputing-1983-10/page/n42/mode/1up ''The TRS-80 MC-10: Too Little, Too Late, for Too Much?''] || Owen Linzmayer || ''Creative Computing'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|10|| style="text-align:right;"|39
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/your-computer-magazine-1983-10/page/n69/mode/2up ''Review: Tandy (MC-10 and TP-10)''] || Kathleen Peel || ''Your Computer'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|10|| style="text-align:right;"|68
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/PersonalComputerWorld1983-11/page/144/mode/2up ''BenchTest: Tandy MC-10''] || Surya || ''Personal Computer World'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|11|| style="text-align:right;"|144
|-
|}

==Other Articles==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Title !! Author !! Magazine !! Y !! M !! P
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/color-computer-magazine-1983-09/page/n49/mode/2up Talk Together]'' || William Barden, Jr. || ''[[The Color Computer Magazine]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|83 || style="text-align:center;"|09 || style="text-align:right;"|49
|-
| ''[https://archive.org/details/color-computer-magazine-1983-09/page/n79/mode/2up Custom Color]'' || [[Dennis Kitsz]] || ''[[The Color Computer Magazine]]'' || style="text-align:center;"|84 || style="text-align:center;"|09 || style="text-align:right;"|78
|}

=Accessories=
==Official Radio Shack==
===Only for MC-10===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ Only for MC-10
|-
! Catalog Number !! Name !! Price !! Notes
|-
| 26-0529 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=41 MC-10 Dust Cover] || $4.95 || note: Cat # sometimes shown as 26-529 per Radio Shack's occasional practice of skipping 0 in a catalog number if it was the first digit in a segment)
|-
| 26-3013 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=55 16K RAM Module] || $9.95 || Only official use of expansion slot, bringing total RAM to 20K, up from the stock on-board 4K.
|}

===For CoCo and MC-10===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ For both CoCo and MC-10
|-
! Catalog Number !! Name !! Price !! Notes
|-
| 26-3195 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1985_rsc-12.html?fb3d-page=44 Book: ''TRS-80 Color Computer and MC-10 Programs''] || $5.95 || "Features 40 programs: games, quizzes, drills, calculators, and more"
|-
| 26-1261 || [[TP-10|Radio Shack TRS-80 TP-10]] Thermal Printer || $99 || For CoCo & MC-10 '''only''' - no parallel port
|-
| 26-1332 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=36 TP-10 Thermal Paper roll] (80 feet) (x2) || $3.95 || Narrow 4⅛" Paper
|-
| 26-0531 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=41 TP-10 Dust Cover] || $4.95 ||
|}

===For MC-10 and other TRS-80 Computers===

* [[CoCo Printers]]
* [[CoCo Modems]]
* [[Hardware#Tandy/Radio_Shack_Tape_Drive_Systems|Computer Cassette Drives]]
* [[Hardware#Monitors_and_displays|Displays]]

==Third-Party Accessories / Upgrades ==
*[[Tandy/Radio Shack MC10 Disk Drive]]
*From [[Green Mountain Micro]]:
**[https://archive.org/details/color-computer-magazine-1983-12/page/n29/mode/2up?q=%22MC-10%22 4K Upgrade Kit]: Increased on-board RAM from 4K to 8K without using up expansion slot
*From the [[Zippster Zone]]:
**[https://thezippsterzone.com/2018/05/08/mc-10-composite/ Composite video out replacing the RF out]
**[https://thezippsterzone.com/2018/05/08/mc10-supercart/ "SuperCart" adding RAM, joystick ports, and a Yamaha music chip used by the MSX and Atari ST]
**[https://thezippsterzone.com/2020/06/12/mc-10-8k-internal-mod/ 8K internal mod]
**[https://thezippsterzone.com/mc-10-items-for-sale/ Other Items for Sale]

=Software=
==Official Radio Shack Software==

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Catalog Number !! Name !! Genre !! Price !! Notes
|-
| 26-3360 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=55 ''Micro Color Checkers''] || Game || $8.95 ||
|-
| 26-3361 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=55 ''Micro Color Games Pack''] || Game || $9.95 || Lunar Lander, Breakout, Hangman, Pong
|-
| 26-3362 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=55 ''Micro Color Math/Design Package''] || Math, Graphics || $9.95 ||
|-
| 26-3363 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=55 ''Micro Color Pinball''] also called ''Lost World Pinball'' || Game || $9.95 || Requires 16K RAM module. Dinosaur theme
|-
| 26-3350 || [https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=55 ''Micro Compac''] || Telecom || $29.95 || Requires modem and serial cable
|}

==Third Party Commercial Software==

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Title !! Genre !! Publisher !! Price !! Notes
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/198307Rainbow/page/n167/mode/1up ''The Handicapper (Thoroughbred)''] || Horse racing betting guide || Federal Hill Software || $24.95 || Could be bundled with with harness version for $39.95 total
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/198307Rainbow/page/n167/mode/1up ''The Handicapper (Harness)''] || Horse racing betting guide || Federal Hill Software || $24.95 || Could be bundled with Thoroughbred version for $39.95 total
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/color-computer-magazine-1984-07/page/n91/mode/2up?q=%22MC-10%22 ''World Capitals''] || Education || Parallel Systems || $11.60* || *"Free" w/ order of 20 or more blank C-10 tapes at 58¢ each
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1983-10/page/n127/mode/2up?q=%22MC-10%22 ''Humbug''] || Debugging / monitor app || Star-Kits || $29.95|| All three Star-Kit apps also offered as a $55 bundle
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1983-10/page/n127/mode/2up?q=%22MC-10%22 ''RemoTerm''] || Remote terminal hosting|| Star-Kits || $19.95|| All three Star-Kit apps also offered as a $55 bundle
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1983-10/page/n127/mode/2up?q=%22MC-10%22 ''CommTerm''] || Telecom || Star-Kits || $19.95|| All three Star-Kit apps also offered as a $55 bundle
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/manualzilla-id-5648057/page/n111/mode/2up?q=MC ''The Nuclear Survival Program''] || Game (?) || Moses Engineering || $7
|-
| [https://archive.org/details/family-computing-15/page/n141/mode/2up?q=%22MC-10%22 ''The Home-PAC™''] || Various || Simplex Software || $19.95 || 20 "educational, graphics, recreational, home finance and utility applications"
|}

==Other Software==
===Internet Archive===
*[https://archive.org/details/software?tab=collection&query=mc-10 Internet Archive MC-10 Software List]. 850 titles! Mostly conversions of BASIC programs from other platforms, but wow
===Jim Gerrie===
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20240930080658/http://faculty.cbu.ca/jgerrie/Home/jgames.html Jim & Charlie Gerrie's MC-10 Games (archived version)]; [http://faculty.cbu.ca/jgerrie/Home/jgames.html original] is down
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20240315021950/http://faculty.cbu.ca/jgerrie/Home/MC-10Programmers.html MC-10 Games from Other Programmers (archived version)]; [https://web.archive.org/web/20240930080658/http://faculty.cbu.ca/jgerrie/Home/jgames.html original] is down
===Zippster Zone===
*[https://thezippsterzone.com/2018/05/07/mc-10-game-carts/ Game Cartridges]. Finally someone took advantage of the expansion port to make cartridges

=External Resources=
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_MC-10 Wikipedia MC-10 Article]
*[https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1984_rsc-10.html?fb3d-page=55 Radio Shack Computer Catalog's MC-10 Listing]
*From Jim Gerrie:
**[http://jimgerrie.blogspot.com/ MC-10 Programming Blog]
**[https://www.youtube.com/user/BenevolentChum/videos MC-10 YouTube channel]

Video Display Generator

2025-02-06T18:33:20Z

Carney: /* Artifact colors */

{{Merge|VDG}}

{{Merge|Motorola 6847}}

===VDG===
[[Image:Coco2boot.png|thumb|320px|Power-on screen of a CoCo 2]]
The MC6847 is display generator capable of displaying text and graphics contained within a roughly square display matrix 256 pixels wide by 192 lines high. It can display 9 colors: black, green, yellow, blue, red, buff (almost-but-not-quite white), cyan, magenta, and orange.

====Alphanumeric/Semigraphics display====
[[Image:Cocobvdg.png|thumb|320px|Sample character set display of 6847 VDG]]
The CoCo is physically wired such that its default alphanumeric display is actually "Semigraphics 4" mode.

In alphanumeric mode, each character is a 5 dot wide by 7 dot high character in a box 8 dots wide and 12 lines high. This display mode consumes 512 bytes of memory and is a 32 character wide screen with 16 lines. The internal ROM character generator only holds 64 characters, so no lower case characters are provided. Lower case characters were rendered as upper case characters with inverted color. Although simulated screen shots would show this as green on black, on most CoCo generations it was actually green on very dark green.

Semigraphics is a hybrid display mode where alphanumerics and chunky block graphics can be mixed together on the same screen. If the 8th bit of the character is set, it is a semigraphics character. If cleared, it is an alphanumeric. When the 8th bit is set, the next three bits determine the color and last 4 bits determine which "quadrant" of the character box is either the selected color or black. This is the only mode where it is possible (without sneaky tricks) to display all 9 colors on the screen simultaneously. If used to only display semigraphics, the screen becomes a 64×32 9 color graphics mode. The CoCo features several BASIC commands to manage this screen as a low-res graphics display.

The alphanumeric display has two colorsets. The one used by default on the CoCo has black characters on a green background. The alternate has black characters on an orange background. The colorset selection does not affect semigraphics characters. The border in this mode is always black.

The 6847 is capable of a Semigraphics 6 display mode, where two bits select a color and 6 bits determine which 1/6 of the character box is lit. In this mode only 4 colors are possible but the Colorset bit of the VDG can select two different groups of the 4 colors. [https://web.archive.org/web/20210214054301/http://www.cs.unc.edu/~yakowenk/coco/text/semigraphics.html Due to a peculiarity of its hardware, only two colors are available in graphics blocks when using Semigraphics 6 on the CoCo (archived)].

====Additional Semigraphics modes====
By setting the SAM such that it believes it is displaying a full graphics mode, but leaving the VDG in Alphanumeric/Semigraphics 4 mode, it is possible to subdivide the character box into smaller pieces. This creates the "virtual" modes Semigraphics 8, 12, and 24.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20220703160425/http://www.lomont.org/Software/Misc/CoCo/Lomont_CoCoHardware.pdf Chris Lomont's Color Computer 1/2/3 Hardware Programming (archived)]</ref> In these modes it was possible to mix bits and pieces of different text characters as well as Semigraphics 4 characters. These modes were an interesting curiosity but not widely used, as the Semigraphics 24-screen consumed 6144 bytes of memory. These modes were not implemented on the CoCo 3.

A programmer's reference manual for the CoCo states that due to a fire at Tandy's research lab, the papers relating to the semigraphics modes were shuffled, and so some of the semigraphics modes were never documented. CoCo enthusiasts created experimental programs to try to reverse engineer the modes, and were able to reconstruct the missing documentation.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20090707132337/http://home.att.net/~robert.gault/Coco/History/Semi24.htm Semigraphics24 for the Coco1&2. Machine language program to create 8 true colors plus text on screen at one time. (archived)]</ref>{{Citation needed|date=January 2008}}

====Graphics display====
There were several full graphics display modes, which were divided into two categories: "resolution" graphics and "color" graphics. In resolution modes, each pixel is addressable as either on or off. There are two colorsets available, the first was black dots on a green background and green border, the second, more commonly used one has white dots on a black background with a white border. In color modes, each pixel was two bits, selecting one of four colors. Again the colorset input to the VDG determined which colors were used. The first colorset has a green border, and the colors green, yellow, red, and blue were available. The second colorset has a white border and the colors white, cyan, magenta and orange were available. Resolution graphics have 8 pixels per byte and are available in 128×64, 128×96, 128×192, and 256×192 densities. Color graphics have 4 pixels per byte and are available in 64×64, 128×64, 128×96, and 128×192 densities. The maximum size of a graphics screen is 6144 bytes.

====Artifact colors====
The 256×192 two color graphics mode uses four colors due to a quirk in the NTSC television system (see [[artifact colors]]).
It is not possible to reliably display 256 dots across the screen due to the limitations of the NTSC signal and the phase relationship between the VDG clock and colorburst frequency.

In the first colorset, where green and black dots are available, alternating columns of green and black are not distinct and appear as a muddy green color. However, when one switches to the white and black colorset, instead of a muddy gray as expected, the result is either orange or blue.
Reversing the order of the alternating dots will give the opposite color.
In effect this mode becomes a 128×192 4 color graphics mode where black, orange, blue, and white are available (the [[Apple II]] created color graphics by exploiting a similar effect).

Most CoCo games used this mode as the colors available are more useful than the ones provided in the hardware 4 color modes. Unfortunately the VDG internally can power up on either the rising or falling edge of the clock, so the bit patterns that represent orange and blue are not predictable. Most CoCo games would start up with a title screen and invited the user to press the reset button until the colors were correct. The CoCo 3 fixed the clock-edge problem so it was always the same; a user would hold the F1 key during reset to choose the other color set.

On a CoCo 3 with an analog RGB monitor, the black and white dot patterns do not artifact; to see them one would have to use a TV or composite monitor, or patch the games to use the hardware 128×192 four color mode in which the GIME chip allows the color choices to be mapped. Users in [[PAL]] countries saw green and purple stripes instead of solid red and blue colors.

Readers of ''[[The Rainbow]]'' or ''[[HOT CoCo]]'' magazine learned that they could use some POKE commands to switch the 6847 VDG into one of the artifact modes, while Extended Color Basic continued to operate as though it were still displaying one of the 128×192 four-color modes. Thus, the entire set of Extended Color Basic graphics commands could be used with the artifact colors. Some users went on to develop a set of 16 artifact colors{{how|date=October 2012}} using a 4×2 pixel matrix, giving this set of colors: black, dark cyan, brick red, light violet, dark blue, azure (the blue above), olive green, brown, purple, light blue, orange, yellow, light gray, blue-white, pink-white, and white. Use of POKE commands also made these colors available to the graphics commands, although the colors had to be drawn one horizontal line at a time. Some interesting artworks were produced from these effects, especially since the CoCo Max art package provided them in its palette of colors.

====Lower case and the 6847T1====
[[Image:Coco2bvdg_lc.png|thumb|320px|Sample character set display of 6847T1 VDG in true lowercase mode]]
The 6847 is capable of using an external character generator. Several third party add-on adapter boards would allow the CoCo to display real lowercase characters.

Very late in the CoCo 2 production run, an enhanced VDG was available. Called the 6847T1, it included a lower case character generator and the ability to display a green/orange or black border on the text screen. Its other changes were mainly to reduce parts count by incorporating an internal data latch. The lower case capability of this VDG is not enabled by default on this system and is not even mentioned in the manual. Only through some tinkering and research was this feature discovered by intrepid CoCo users.

The 6847T1 may also carry the part number XC80652P; these may have been pre-release parts.

==See Also==
*[[VDG]]
*[[Motorola 6847]]

[[Category:Hardware]]

VDG

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{{Merge|Video Display Generator}}
{{Merge|Motorola 6847}}
The '''VDG''' or '''MC6847''' is the video display generator from Motorola used in the [[TRS-80 Color Computer]]

It can display text and graphics within a matrix of 256 pixels wide by 192 lines high.

It can display a maximum of 9 colors: black, green, yellow, blue, red, buff (almost-but-not-quite white), cyan, magenta, and orange.

It is also used in the following computers of the time: [[MC-10]], [[Dragon]], [[Laser 200]] and [[Acorn Atom]].

{| class="wikitable"
! Video Mode !! Resolution !! Colors !! Bytes !! Shorthand !! PMODE !! SCREEN !! $FF22 value
|-
|Alphanumeric Internal
|32 × 16
|8 + Black
|512
|
|-
|Alphanumeric External
|32 × 16
|8 + Black
|512
|
|-
|Semigraphics 4
|64 × 32
|8 + Black
|512
|
|-
|Semigraphics 6
|64 × 48
|4 + Black
|512
|
|-
|Color Graphics 1
|64 × 64
|4
|1024
|
|-
|Resolution Graphics 1
|128 × 64
|Black & White
|1024
|
|-
|Color Graphics 2
|128 × 64
|4
|2048
|
|-
|Resolution Graphics 2
|128 × 96
|Black & White
|1536
|
|-
|Color Graphics 3
|128 × 96
|4
|3072
|
|-
|Resolution Graphics 3
|128 × 192
|Black & White
|3072
|
|-
|Color Graphics 6
|128 × 192
|4 (GYBR)
|6144
|6C0
|3
|1,0
|d0
|-
|Color Graphics 6
|128 × 192
|4 (WCMO)
|6144
|
|
|
|e0
|-
|Resolution Graphics 6
|256 × 192
|Green & White
|6144
|
|
|
|f0
|-
|Resolution Graphics 6
|256 × 192
|Black & White
|6144
|
|
|
|f8
|}

==See Also==
*[[Video Display Generator]]
*[[Motorola 6847]]

[[Category:Hardware]]

Program Pak

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[[Program Pak]] was Tandy/Radio Shack's name for its format of software cartridges designed for the CoCo's expansion/cartridge slot.

Each Program Pak's contact pins had a distinctive spring-loaded protective hard plastic sleeve which was pushed back into the cartridge when the cartridge was inserted into the CoCo, and which sprang back to its protective covering position when the cartridge was removed. This went a long way to making Radio Shack cartridges more durable than most other cartridge formats, in particular less vulnerable from their contacts being damaged by scratches, dust/dirt, and corrosion from being directly touched.

At launch and during the early period of the CoCo's lifecycle, most Radio Shack-branded software titles were released on Program Paks. Tandy soon began offering programs on cassette, and then, later, on diskette as well.

Third party developers usually released their titles on disk and/or tape from the start since that was much cheaper, since tapes and floppy disks were an industry standard and commonly available medium. However, there were a few non-Radio Shack program cartridges, such as ''Ghost Gobbler''.

While (thanks to consoles such as the Atari 2600, as well as the Atari 800, TI-99/4A, Commodore VIC-20, and similar competitors) cartridges had long been associated with video games, and while most early Radio Shack CoCo video games were also on Program Paks, there were other, non-gaming programs also available in the cartridge format, such as the [[Color SCRIPSIT]] and [[Color SCRIPSIT II]] word processors and others.

The format was also used to expand the CoCo's capabilities, most notably to provide the CoCo with floppy disk capability. Both Tandy/Radio Shack disk drives, as well as third-party drives, used a cartridge to give the CoCo floppy driver firmware and a loader for a disk operating system (or at least a version of BASIC that could use the disk drive and had some core commands such as load, save, copy, list, delete, etc.).

Some other expansions from Radio Shack/Tandy included:

*[[Speech/Sound Cartridge]]
*[[Orchestra-90 CC]]
*[[Deluxe RS-232 Program Pak]]
*[[Direct Connect Modem Pak]]
*Hard Drive Controller
*[[Disto Super Controller]]
*XPad Controller
*WordPak RS 80 Column Adapter (for CoCo 2)[https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com/flipbook/c1988_rsc-19.html?fb3d-page=27]

The most notable third party non-disk controller cartridge was probably the
[[CoCo Max]] Joystick Driver.

Program Pak

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TDP-100

2025-02-06T17:35:01Z

Carney: /* Official TDP-Branded Accessories and Software */

{{NavCoCoRelatives}}
{{InfoBox |
| caption = TDP-100
| photo = TDP-100.jpg
| date =
| year = 1982
| notes = gold 64K badge is aftermarket
| infosource = see references
}}

The '''Tandy Data Products System 100''', or '''TDP-100''', was a Color Computer made by Tandy but marketed by Radio Corporation of America (RCA). The TDP-100 was notable in being marketed outside Tandy's traditional distribution channel of Radio Shack stores; instead being sold by retailers that sold RCA products. Tandy also made some otherwise-standard CoCo software and peripherals that were TDP-branded.

Tandy announced the TDP-100 in July 1982. [https://archive.org/details/sim_80-micro_1982-11_34/page/n471/mode/2up]

==Articles==

[[Bob Rosen]] of [[Spectrum Projects]] gave the TDP-100 [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1983-02/page/n153/mode/2up a favorable review in the February 1983 issue] of ''[[The Rainbow]]'' and in [https://archive.org/details/color-computer-magazine-1983-03/page/n59/mode/2up the April 1983 issue] of ''[[The Color Computer Magazine]]''. Somewhat strangely, he called TDP "Tandy ''Distributor'' Products" instead of "Tandy Data Products". Anyway, he was clearly impressed enough with the machine to have Spectrum Projects become a TDP-100 retailer, [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1982-11/page/n78/mode/1up as advertised in the November 1982 ''Rainbow'']. (Hmm several months before writing his reviews, which did not mention him selling the product. CoCo fans can most likely forgive the apparent conflict of interest from such a stalwart supporter of the platform.)

In May 1983, John Steiner, in Issue 60 of ''Micro'' (formerly ''Micro 6502 Journal''), warned users of early-model TDPs: "There is no buffering between the processor and ROM slot, nor is there any between the controller input and ROM. A failure of either unit can easily damage both. As a precaution, be sure the power is off several seconds before reinstalling a card in the slot." [https://archive.org/details/Micro_NO._60_1983-05_Micro_Ink_US/page/n18/mode/1up]

In September 1983, Steiner, in Issue 64 of ''Micro'', passed along an important tip from Ron Krebs of [[Mark Data Products]]. It provides specifics (including part names and numbers) to fix a problem with high-resolution color graphics in early-model TDP-100s. [https://archive.org/details/micro-6502-journal-64/page/n21/mode/2up].

==Official TDP-Branded Accessories and Software==

This is just a list of '''''specifically TDP-branded''''' products. Obviously, the TDP-100 was not limited to only being able to use these products; since it could (with extremely rare exceptions) use any CoCo 1/2 program or accessory, regardless of whether that CoCo product was an official TDP-branded product, or a Tandy / Radio Shack-branded product, or from a third party. Similarly, any CoCo could use any TDP-branded product.
TDP used "Stock Numbers" rather than Radio Shack Catalog Numbers.
All TDP-branded programs could run on the base model 16K TDP-100, with no Extended BASIC ROM necessary.
All these products had Radio Shack equivalents. When no "Radio Shack" equivalent name is given, the Radio Shack version's name was the same as the TDP version's.
All TDP-branded programs were [[Program Pak]]s, except ''Learning Lab'', which was on tape.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Stock No. !! Product Name !! Radio Shack Equivalent !! RS Cat # !! Nov. 82 Price !! Notes
|-
| 10-1100 || Color Graphics Printer I || CGP-115 || 26-1192 || style="text-align:right;"|249.95 || Really a plotter, not a printer. Used 4½" wide roll paper
|-
| 10-1101 || Plotter Pens for 10-1100 Black x3 || || 26-1480 || style="text-align:right;"|2.95 ||
|-
| 10-1102 || 4⅞" Paper Roll for 10-1100 x3 || || 26-1428 || style="text-align:right;"|4.95 ||
|-
| 10-1103 || Plotter Pens for 10-1100 1 red 1 blue 1 green || || 26-1481 || style="text-align:right;"|2.95 ||
|-
| 10-1130 || Line Printer I || DMP-100* || 26-1253 || style="text-align:right;"|399.00 || *Or possibly the Line Printer VII (were they the same?)
|-
| 10-1131 || 9½" Paper for 10-1130 (500 sheets) || || 26-1423 || style="text-align:right;"|7.95 ||
|-
| 10-1132 || Ribbon for 10-1130 || || 26-1424 || style="text-align:right;"|8.95 ||
|-
| 10-1150 || Mini-Disk Drive || [[26-3022|Color Computer Mini Disk Drive #0]] || [[26-3022]] || style="text-align:right;"|599.00 ||
|-
| 10-1151 || 5¼" Diskette || || 26-0305 || style="text-align:right;"|3.95 ||
|-
| 10-1200|| "Black Beauty" Joystick (x2?) || || 26-3008 || style="text-align:right;"|12.95 ||
|-
| 10-1210 || Computer Dust Cover || Color Computer Dust Cover || 26-3006 || style="text-align:right;"|4.95 ||
|-
| 10-1250 || Computer Cassette Recorder || [[CCR-81]] || 26-1208 || style="text-align:right;"|59.95 ||
|-
| 10-1251 || Computer Cassette Tape (CT-10) || C-10 || 26-0302 || style="text-align:right;"|1.79 ||
|-
| 10-1252 || Computer Cassette Tape (CT-20) || C-20 || 26-0301 || style="text-align:right;"|3.69 ||
|-
| 10-1270|| Serial Cable 4-pin DIN to 4-pin DIN || || 26-3020 || style="text-align:right;"|4.95 ||
|-
| 10-1290 || Modem I || Direct Connect Modem I ||26-1172 || style="text-align:right;"|149.00 ||
|-
| 10-1300 || ''Bustout'' || || 26-3056 || style="text-align:right;"|29.95 || [[Clone]] of ''Breakout''; called ''Super Bustout'' inside the manual
|-
| 10-1301 || ''Space Assault''|| || 26-3060 || style="text-align:right;"|29.95 || [[Clone]] of ''Space Invaders''
|-
| 10-1302 || ''Project Nebula'' || || 26-3063 || style="text-align:right;"|39.95 ||
|-
| 10-1303 || ''Polaris'' || || 26-3065 || style="text-align:right;"|29.95 || [[Clone]] / derivative of ''Missile Command''
|-
| 10-1304 || ''Micro Painter'' || || 26-3077 || style="text-align:right;"|39.95 || Coloring book app. Radio Shack sold more pictures on tape
|-
| 10-1305 || ''Microbes'' || || 26-3085 || style="text-align:right;"|29.95 || [[Clone]] / derivative of ''Asteroids''
|-
| 10-1306 || ''Shooting Gallery'' || || 26-3088 || style="text-align:right;"|29.95 ||
|-
| 10-1307 || ''Personal Finance'' || || 26-3106 || style="text-align:right;"|39.95 ||
|-
| 10-1308 || ''Color File'' || || 26-3103 || style="text-align:right;"|29.95 || Database, saves files to tape
|-
| 10-1309 || ''Spectaculator'' || || 26-3104 || style="text-align:right;"|39.95 || Spreadsheet, saves files to tape
|-
| 10-1310 || ''Color Scripsit'' || || 26-3105 || style="text-align:right;"|39.95 || Word processor, saves files to tape
|-
| 10-1311 || ''Learning Lab'' || ''Color Computer Learning Lab'' || 26-3153 || style="text-align:right;"|39.95 ||
|-
| 10-1312 || ''Videotex'' || || 26-2222 || style="text-align:right;"|29.95 || [[Telecommunications]] app
|-
| 10-1313 || ''Chess'' || || 26-3050 || style="text-align:right;"|39.95||
|-
|}

==External Links==
*[https://tandydataproducts.com Tandy Data Products] Enthusiast website
*[https://www.facebook.com/groups/tandydataproducts/ TDP or Tandy Data Products] Facebook public group
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQdxZaXBp6o&t=6458s TDP Talk!] CoCoTalk! Episode 132 segment focused on TDP
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5GrlkaxF5o TDP System 100 - The Color Computer's Cousin] VintageGeek Episode on YouTube

TDP-100

2025-02-06T17:31:27Z

Carney: /* Official TDP-Branded Accessories and Software */

{{NavCoCoRelatives}}
{{InfoBox |
| caption = TDP-100
| photo = TDP-100.jpg
| date =
| year = 1982
| notes = gold 64K badge is aftermarket
| infosource = see references
}}

The '''Tandy Data Products System 100''', or '''TDP-100''', was a Color Computer made by Tandy but marketed by Radio Corporation of America (RCA). The TDP-100 was notable in being marketed outside Tandy's traditional distribution channel of Radio Shack stores; instead being sold by retailers that sold RCA products. Tandy also made some otherwise-standard CoCo software and peripherals that were TDP-branded.

Tandy announced the TDP-100 in July 1982. [https://archive.org/details/sim_80-micro_1982-11_34/page/n471/mode/2up]

==Articles==

[[Bob Rosen]] of [[Spectrum Projects]] gave the TDP-100 [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1983-02/page/n153/mode/2up a favorable review in the February 1983 issue] of ''[[The Rainbow]]'' and in [https://archive.org/details/color-computer-magazine-1983-03/page/n59/mode/2up the April 1983 issue] of ''[[The Color Computer Magazine]]''. Somewhat strangely, he called TDP "Tandy ''Distributor'' Products" instead of "Tandy Data Products". Anyway, he was clearly impressed enough with the machine to have Spectrum Projects become a TDP-100 retailer, [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1982-11/page/n78/mode/1up as advertised in the November 1982 ''Rainbow'']. (Hmm several months before writing his reviews, which did not mention him selling the product. CoCo fans can most likely forgive the apparent conflict of interest from such a stalwart supporter of the platform.)

In May 1983, John Steiner, in Issue 60 of ''Micro'' (formerly ''Micro 6502 Journal''), warned users of early-model TDPs: "There is no buffering between the processor and ROM slot, nor is there any between the controller input and ROM. A failure of either unit can easily damage both. As a precaution, be sure the power is off several seconds before reinstalling a card in the slot." [https://archive.org/details/Micro_NO._60_1983-05_Micro_Ink_US/page/n18/mode/1up]

In September 1983, Steiner, in Issue 64 of ''Micro'', passed along an important tip from Ron Krebs of [[Mark Data Products]]. It provides specifics (including part names and numbers) to fix a problem with high-resolution color graphics in early-model TDP-100s. [https://archive.org/details/micro-6502-journal-64/page/n21/mode/2up].

==Official TDP-Branded Accessories and Software==

This is just a list of '''''specifically TDP-branded''''' products. Obviously, the TDP-100 was not limited to only being able to use these products; since it could (with extremely rare exceptions) use any CoCo 1/2 program or accessory, regardless of whether that CoCo product was an official TDP-branded product, or a Tandy / Radio Shack-branded product, or from a third party. Similarly, any CoCo could use any TDP-branded product.
TDP used "Stock Numbers" rather than Radio Shack Catalog Numbers.
All TDP-branded programs could run on the base model 16K TDP-100, with no Extended BASIC ROM necessary.
All these products had Radio Shack equivalents. When no "Radio Shack" equivalent name is given, the Radio Shack version's name was the same as the TDP version's.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Stock No. !! Product Name !! Radio Shack Equivalent !! RS Cat # !! Nov. 82 Price !! Notes
|-
| 10-1100 || Color Graphics Printer I || CGP-115 || 26-1192 || style="text-align:right;"|249.95 || Really a plotter, not a printer. Used 4½" wide roll paper
|-
| 10-1101 || Plotter Pens for 10-1100 Black x3 || || 26-1480 || style="text-align:right;"|2.95 ||
|-
| 10-1102 || 4⅞" Paper Roll for 10-1100 x3 || || 26-1428 || style="text-align:right;"|4.95 ||
|-
| 10-1103 || Plotter Pens for 10-1100 1 red 1 blue 1 green || || 26-1481 || style="text-align:right;"|2.95 ||
|-
| 10-1130 || Line Printer I || DMP-100* || 26-1253 || style="text-align:right;"|399.00 || *Or possibly the Line Printer VII (were they the same?)
|-
| 10-1131 || 9½" Paper for 10-1130 (500 sheets) || || 26-1423 || style="text-align:right;"|7.95 ||
|-
| 10-1132 || Ribbon for 10-1130 || || 26-1424 || style="text-align:right;"|8.95 ||
|-
| 10-1150 || Mini-Disk Drive || [[26-3022|Color Computer Mini Disk Drive #0]] || [[26-3022]] || style="text-align:right;"|599.00 ||
|-
| 10-1151 || 5¼" Diskette || || 26-0305 || style="text-align:right;"|3.95 ||
|-
| 10-1200|| "Black Beauty" Joystick (x2?) || || 26-3008 || style="text-align:right;"|12.95 ||
|-
| 10-1210 || Computer Dust Cover || Color Computer Dust Cover || 26-3006 || style="text-align:right;"|4.95 ||
|-
| 10-1250 || Computer Cassette Recorder || [[CCR-81]] || 26-1208 || style="text-align:right;"|59.95 ||
|-
| 10-1251 || Computer Cassette Tape (CT-10) || C-10 || 26-0302 || style="text-align:right;"|1.79 ||
|-
| 10-1252 || Computer Cassette Tape (CT-20) || C-20 || 26-0301 || style="text-align:right;"|3.69 ||
|-
| 10-1270|| Serial Cable 4-pin DIN to 4-pin DIN || || 26-3020 || style="text-align:right;"|4.95 ||
|-
| 10-1290 || Modem I || Direct Connect Modem I ||26-1172 || style="text-align:right;"|149.00 ||
|-
| 10-1300 || ''Bustout'' || || 26-3056 || style="text-align:right;"|29.95 || [[Clone]] of ''Breakout''; called ''Super Bustout'' inside the manual
|-
| 10-1301 || ''Space Assault''|| || 26-3060 || style="text-align:right;"|29.95 || [[Clone]] of ''Space Invaders''
|-
| 10-1302 || ''Project Nebula'' || || 26-3063 || style="text-align:right;"|39.95 ||
|-
| 10-1303 || ''Polaris'' || || 26-3065 || style="text-align:right;"|29.95 || [[Clone]] / derivative of ''Missile Command''
|-
| 10-1304 || ''Micro Painter'' || || 26-3077 || style="text-align:right;"|39.95 || Coloring book app. Radio Shack sold more pictures on tape
|-
| 10-1305 || ''Microbes'' || || 26-3085 || style="text-align:right;"|29.95 || [[Clone]] / derivative of ''Asteroids''
|-
| 10-1306 || ''Shooting Gallery'' || || 26-3088 || style="text-align:right;"|29.95 ||
|-
| 10-1307 || ''Personal Finance'' || || 26-3106 || style="text-align:right;"|39.95 ||
|-
| 10-1308 || ''Color File'' || || 26-3103 || style="text-align:right;"|29.95 || Database, saves files to tape
|-
| 10-1309 || ''Spectaculator'' || || 26-3104 || style="text-align:right;"|39.95 || Spreadsheet, saves files to tape
|-
| 10-1310 || ''Color Scripsit'' || || 26-3105 || style="text-align:right;"|39.95 || Word processor, saves files to tape
|-
| 10-1311 || ''Learning Lab'' || ''Color Computer Learning Lab'' || 26-3153 || style="text-align:right;"|39.95 ||
|-
| 10-1312 || ''Videotex'' || || 26-2222 || style="text-align:right;"|29.95 || [[Telecommunications]] app
|-
| 10-1313 || ''Chess'' || || 26-3050 || style="text-align:right;"|39.95||
|-
|}

==External Links==
*[https://tandydataproducts.com Tandy Data Products] Enthusiast website
*[https://www.facebook.com/groups/tandydataproducts/ TDP or Tandy Data Products] Facebook public group
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQdxZaXBp6o&t=6458s TDP Talk!] CoCoTalk! Episode 132 segment focused on TDP
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5GrlkaxF5o TDP System 100 - The Color Computer's Cousin] VintageGeek Episode on YouTube

TDP-100

2025-02-06T17:29:09Z

Carney: /* Official TDP-Branded Accessories and Software */

{{NavCoCoRelatives}}
{{InfoBox |
| caption = TDP-100
| photo = TDP-100.jpg
| date =
| year = 1982
| notes = gold 64K badge is aftermarket
| infosource = see references
}}

The '''Tandy Data Products System 100''', or '''TDP-100''', was a Color Computer made by Tandy but marketed by Radio Corporation of America (RCA). The TDP-100 was notable in being marketed outside Tandy's traditional distribution channel of Radio Shack stores; instead being sold by retailers that sold RCA products. Tandy also made some otherwise-standard CoCo software and peripherals that were TDP-branded.

Tandy announced the TDP-100 in July 1982. [https://archive.org/details/sim_80-micro_1982-11_34/page/n471/mode/2up]

==Articles==

[[Bob Rosen]] of [[Spectrum Projects]] gave the TDP-100 [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1983-02/page/n153/mode/2up a favorable review in the February 1983 issue] of ''[[The Rainbow]]'' and in [https://archive.org/details/color-computer-magazine-1983-03/page/n59/mode/2up the April 1983 issue] of ''[[The Color Computer Magazine]]''. Somewhat strangely, he called TDP "Tandy ''Distributor'' Products" instead of "Tandy Data Products". Anyway, he was clearly impressed enough with the machine to have Spectrum Projects become a TDP-100 retailer, [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1982-11/page/n78/mode/1up as advertised in the November 1982 ''Rainbow'']. (Hmm several months before writing his reviews, which did not mention him selling the product. CoCo fans can most likely forgive the apparent conflict of interest from such a stalwart supporter of the platform.)

In May 1983, John Steiner, in Issue 60 of ''Micro'' (formerly ''Micro 6502 Journal''), warned users of early-model TDPs: "There is no buffering between the processor and ROM slot, nor is there any between the controller input and ROM. A failure of either unit can easily damage both. As a precaution, be sure the power is off several seconds before reinstalling a card in the slot." [https://archive.org/details/Micro_NO._60_1983-05_Micro_Ink_US/page/n18/mode/1up]

In September 1983, Steiner, in Issue 64 of ''Micro'', passed along an important tip from Ron Krebs of [[Mark Data Products]]. It provides specifics (including part names and numbers) to fix a problem with high-resolution color graphics in early-model TDP-100s. [https://archive.org/details/micro-6502-journal-64/page/n21/mode/2up].

==Official TDP-Branded Accessories and Software==

This is just a list of '''''specifically TDP-branded''''' products. Obviously, the TDP-100 was not limited to only being able to use these products; since it could (with extremely rare exceptions) use any CoCo 1/2 program or accessory, regardless of whether that CoCo product was an official TDP-branded product, or a Tandy / Radio Shack-branded product, or from a third party. Similarly, any CoCo could use any TDP-branded product.
TDP used "Stock Numbers" rather than Radio Shack Catalog Numbers.
All TDP-branded programs could run on the base model 16K TDP-100, with no Extended BASIC ROM necessary.
All these products had Radio Shack equivalents. When no "Radio Shack" equivalent name is given, the Radio Shack version's name was the same as the TDP version's.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Stock No. !! Product Name !! Radio Shack Equivalent !! RS Cat # !! Nov. 82 Price !! Notes
|-
| 10-1100 || Color Graphics Printer I || CGP-115 || 26-1192 || style="text-align:right;"|249.95 || Really a plotter, not a printer. Used 4½" wide roll paper
|-
| 10-1101 || Plotter Pens for 10-1100 Black x3 || || 26-1480 || style="text-align:right;"|2.95 ||
|-
| 10-1102 || 4⅞" Paper Roll for 10-1100 x3 || || 26-1428 || style="text-align:right;"|4.95 ||
|-
| 10-1103 || Plotter Pens for 10-1100 1 red 1 blue 1 green || || 26-1481 || style="text-align:right;"|2.95 ||
|-
| 10-1130 || Line Printer I || DMP-100* || 26-1253 || style="text-align:right;"|399.00 || *Or possibly the Line Printer VII (were they the same?)
|-
| 10-1131 || 9½" Paper for 10-1130 (500 sheets) || || 26-1423 || style="text-align:right;"|7.95 ||
|-
| 10-1132 || Ribbon for 10-1130 || || 26-1424 || style="text-align:right;"|8.95 ||
|-
| 10-1150 || Mini-Disk Drive || [[26-3022|Color Computer Mini Disk Drive #0]] || [[26-3022]] || style="text-align:right;"|599.00 ||
|-
| 10-1151 || 5¼" Diskette || || 26-0305 || style="text-align:right;"|3.95 ||
|-
| 10-1200|| "Black Beauty" Joystick (x2?) || || 26-3008 || style="text-align:right;"|12.95 ||
|-
| 10-1210 || Computer Dust Cover || Color Computer Dust Cover || 26-3006 || style="text-align:right;"|4.95 ||
|-
| 10-1250 || Computer Cassette Recorder || [[CCR-81]] || 26-1208 || style="text-align:right;"|59.95 ||
|-
| 10-1251 || Computer Cassette Tape (CT-10) || C-10 || 26-0302 || style="text-align:right;"|1.79 ||
|-
| 10-1252 || Computer Cassette Tape (CT-20) || C-20 || 26-0301 || style="text-align:right;"|3.69 ||
|-
| 10-1270|| Serial Cable 4-pin DIN to 4-pin DIN || || 26-3020 || style="text-align:right;"|4.95 ||
|-
| 10-1290 || Modem I || Direct Connect Modem I ||26-1172 || style="text-align:right;"|149.00 ||
|-
| 10-1300 || ''Bust-Out!'' || || 26-3056 || style="text-align:right;"|29.95 || [[Clone]] of ''Breakout''
|-
| 10-1301 || ''Space Assault''|| || 26-3060 || style="text-align:right;"|29.95 || [[Clone]] of ''Space Invaders''
|-
| 10-1302 || ''Project Nebula'' || || 26-3063 || style="text-align:right;"|39.95 ||
|-
| 10-1303 || ''Polaris'' || || 26-3065 || style="text-align:right;"|29.95 || [[Clone]] / derivative of ''Missile Command''
|-
| 10-1304 || ''Micro Painter'' || || 26-3077 || style="text-align:right;"|39.95 || Coloring book app. Radio Shack sold more pictures on tape
|-
| 10-1305 || ''Microbes'' || || 26-3085 || style="text-align:right;"|29.95 || [[Clone]] / derivative of ''Asteroids''
|-
| 10-1306 || ''Shooting Gallery'' || || 26-3088 || style="text-align:right;"|29.95 ||
|-
| 10-1307 || ''Personal Finance'' || || 26-3106 || style="text-align:right;"|39.95 ||
|-
| 10-1308 || ''Color File'' || || 26-3103 || style="text-align:right;"|29.95 || Database, saves files to tape
|-
| 10-1309 || ''Spectaculator'' || || 26-3104 || style="text-align:right;"|39.95 || Spreadsheet, saves files to tape
|-
| 10-1310 || ''Color Scripsit'' || || 26-3105 || style="text-align:right;"|39.95 || Word processor, saves files to tape
|-
| 10-1311 || ''Learning Lab'' || ''Color Computer Learning Lab'' || 26-3153 || style="text-align:right;"|39.95 ||
|-
| 10-1312 || ''Videotex'' || || 26-2222 || style="text-align:right;"|29.95 || [[Telecommunications]] app
|-
| 10-1313 || ''Chess'' || || 26-3050 || style="text-align:right;"|39.95||
|-
|}

==External Links==
*[https://tandydataproducts.com Tandy Data Products] Enthusiast website
*[https://www.facebook.com/groups/tandydataproducts/ TDP or Tandy Data Products] Facebook public group
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQdxZaXBp6o&t=6458s TDP Talk!] CoCoTalk! Episode 132 segment focused on TDP
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5GrlkaxF5o TDP System 100 - The Color Computer's Cousin] VintageGeek Episode on YouTube

TDP-100

2025-02-06T17:26:23Z

Carney: /* Official TDP-Branded Accessories and Software */

{{NavCoCoRelatives}}
{{InfoBox |
| caption = TDP-100
| photo = TDP-100.jpg
| date =
| year = 1982
| notes = gold 64K badge is aftermarket
| infosource = see references
}}

The '''Tandy Data Products System 100''', or '''TDP-100''', was a Color Computer made by Tandy but marketed by Radio Corporation of America (RCA). The TDP-100 was notable in being marketed outside Tandy's traditional distribution channel of Radio Shack stores; instead being sold by retailers that sold RCA products. Tandy also made some otherwise-standard CoCo software and peripherals that were TDP-branded.

Tandy announced the TDP-100 in July 1982. [https://archive.org/details/sim_80-micro_1982-11_34/page/n471/mode/2up]

==Articles==

[[Bob Rosen]] of [[Spectrum Projects]] gave the TDP-100 [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1983-02/page/n153/mode/2up a favorable review in the February 1983 issue] of ''[[The Rainbow]]'' and in [https://archive.org/details/color-computer-magazine-1983-03/page/n59/mode/2up the April 1983 issue] of ''[[The Color Computer Magazine]]''. Somewhat strangely, he called TDP "Tandy ''Distributor'' Products" instead of "Tandy Data Products". Anyway, he was clearly impressed enough with the machine to have Spectrum Projects become a TDP-100 retailer, [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1982-11/page/n78/mode/1up as advertised in the November 1982 ''Rainbow'']. (Hmm several months before writing his reviews, which did not mention him selling the product. CoCo fans can most likely forgive the apparent conflict of interest from such a stalwart supporter of the platform.)

In May 1983, John Steiner, in Issue 60 of ''Micro'' (formerly ''Micro 6502 Journal''), warned users of early-model TDPs: "There is no buffering between the processor and ROM slot, nor is there any between the controller input and ROM. A failure of either unit can easily damage both. As a precaution, be sure the power is off several seconds before reinstalling a card in the slot." [https://archive.org/details/Micro_NO._60_1983-05_Micro_Ink_US/page/n18/mode/1up]

In September 1983, Steiner, in Issue 64 of ''Micro'', passed along an important tip from Ron Krebs of [[Mark Data Products]]. It provides specifics (including part names and numbers) to fix a problem with high-resolution color graphics in early-model TDP-100s. [https://archive.org/details/micro-6502-journal-64/page/n21/mode/2up].

==Official TDP-Branded Accessories and Software==

This is just a list of '''''specifically TDP-branded''''' products. Obviously, the TDP-100 was not limited to only being able to use these products; since it could (with extremely rare exceptions) use any CoCo 1/2 program or accessory, regardless of whether that CoCo product was an official TDP-branded product, or a Tandy / Radio Shack-branded product, or from a third party. Similarly, any CoCo could use any TDP-branded product.
TDP used "Stock Numbers" rather than Radio Shack Catalog Numbers.
All TDP-branded programs could run on the base model 16K TDP-100, with no Extended BASIC ROM necessary.
All these products had Radio Shack equivalents. When no "Radio Shack" equivalent name is given, the Radio Shack version's name was the same as the TDP version's.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Stock No. !! Product Name !! Radio Shack Equivalent !! RS Cat # !! Nov. 82 Price !! Notes
|-
| 10-1100 || Color Graphics Printer I || CGP-115 || 26-1192 || style="text-align:right;"|249.95 || Really a plotter, not a printer. Used 4½" wide roll paper
|-
| 10-1101 || Plotter Pens for 10-1100 Black x3 || || 26-1480 || style="text-align:right;"|2.95 ||
|-
| 10-1102 || 4⅞" Paper Roll for 10-1100 x3 || || 26-1428 || style="text-align:right;"|4.95 ||
|-
| 10-1103 || Plotter Pens for 10-1100 1 red 1 blue 1 green || || 26-1481 || style="text-align:right;"|2.95 ||
|-
| 10-1130 || Line Printer I || DMP-100* || 26-1253 || style="text-align:right;"|399.00 || *Or possibly the Line Printer VII (were they the same?)
|-
| 10-1131 || 9½" Paper for 10-1130 (500 sheets) || || 26-1423 || style="text-align:right;"|7.95 ||
|-
| 10-1132 || Ribbon for 10-1130 || || 26-1424 || style="text-align:right;"|8.95 ||
|-
| 10-1150 || Mini-Disk Drive || [[26-3022|Color Computer Mini Disk Drive #0]] || [[26-3022]] || style="text-align:right;"|599.00 ||
|-
| 10-1151 || 5¼" Diskette || || 26-0305 || style="text-align:right;"|3.95 ||
|-
| 10-1200|| "Black Beauty" Joystick (x2?) || || 26-3008 || style="text-align:right;"|12.95 ||
|-
| 10-1210 || Computer Dust Cover || Color Computer Dust Cover || 26-3006 || style="text-align:right;"|4.95 ||
|-
| 10-1250 || Computer Cassette Recorder || [[CCR-81]] || 26-1208 || style="text-align:right;"|59.95 ||
|-
| 10-1251 || Computer Cassette Tape (CT-10) || C-10 || 26-0302 || style="text-align:right;"|1.79 ||
|-
| 10-1252 || Computer Cassette Tape (CT-20) || C-20 || 26-0301 || style="text-align:right;"|3.69 ||
|-
| 10-1270|| Serial Cable 4-pin DIN to 4-pin DIN || || 26-3020 || style="text-align:right;"|4.95 ||
|-
| 10-1290 || Modem I || Direct Connect Modem I ||26-1172 || style="text-align:right;"|149.00 ||
|-
| 10-1300 || ''Super Bust-Out!'' || || 26-3056 || style="text-align:right;"|29.95 || [[Clone]] of ''Breakout''
|-
| 10-1301 || ''Space Assault''|| || 26-3060 || style="text-align:right;"|29.95 || [[Clone]] of ''Space Invaders''
|-
| 10-1302 || ''Project Nebula'' || || 26-3063 || style="text-align:right;"|39.95 ||
|-
| 10-1303 || ''Polaris'' || || 26-3065 || style="text-align:right;"|29.95 || [[Clone]] / derivative of ''Missile Command''
|-
| 10-1304 || ''Micro Painter'' || || 26-3077 || style="text-align:right;"|39.95 || Coloring book app. Radio Shack sold more pictures on tape
|-
| 10-1305 || ''Microbes'' || || 26-3085 || style="text-align:right;"|29.95 || [[Clone]] / derivative of ''Asteroids''
|-
| 10-1306 || ''Shooting Gallery'' || || 26-3088 || style="text-align:right;"|29.95 ||
|-
| 10-1307 || ''Personal Finance'' || || 26-3106 || style="text-align:right;"|39.95 ||
|-
| 10-1308 || ''Color File'' || || 26-3103 || style="text-align:right;"|29.95 || Database, saves files to tape
|-
| 10-1309 || ''Spectaculator'' || || 26-3104 || style="text-align:right;"|39.95 || Spreadsheet, saves files to tape
|-
| 10-1310 || ''Color Scripsit'' || || 26-3105 || style="text-align:right;"|39.95 || Word processor, saves files to tape
|-
| 10-1311 || ''Learning Lab'' || ''Color Computer Learning Lab'' || 26-3153 || style="text-align:right;"|39.95 ||
|-
| 10-1312 || ''Videotex'' || || 26-2222 || style="text-align:right;"|29.95 || [[Telecommunications]] app
|-
| 10-1313 || ''Chess'' || || 26-3050 || style="text-align:right;"|39.95||
|-
|}

==External Links==
*[https://tandydataproducts.com Tandy Data Products] Enthusiast website
*[https://www.facebook.com/groups/tandydataproducts/ TDP or Tandy Data Products] Facebook public group
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQdxZaXBp6o&t=6458s TDP Talk!] CoCoTalk! Episode 132 segment focused on TDP
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5GrlkaxF5o TDP System 100 - The Color Computer's Cousin] VintageGeek Episode on YouTube

TDP-100

2025-02-06T17:25:20Z

Carney: /* Accessories and Software */

{{NavCoCoRelatives}}
{{InfoBox |
| caption = TDP-100
| photo = TDP-100.jpg
| date =
| year = 1982
| notes = gold 64K badge is aftermarket
| infosource = see references
}}

The '''Tandy Data Products System 100''', or '''TDP-100''', was a Color Computer made by Tandy but marketed by Radio Corporation of America (RCA). The TDP-100 was notable in being marketed outside Tandy's traditional distribution channel of Radio Shack stores; instead being sold by retailers that sold RCA products. Tandy also made some otherwise-standard CoCo software and peripherals that were TDP-branded.

Tandy announced the TDP-100 in July 1982. [https://archive.org/details/sim_80-micro_1982-11_34/page/n471/mode/2up]

==Articles==

[[Bob Rosen]] of [[Spectrum Projects]] gave the TDP-100 [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1983-02/page/n153/mode/2up a favorable review in the February 1983 issue] of ''[[The Rainbow]]'' and in [https://archive.org/details/color-computer-magazine-1983-03/page/n59/mode/2up the April 1983 issue] of ''[[The Color Computer Magazine]]''. Somewhat strangely, he called TDP "Tandy ''Distributor'' Products" instead of "Tandy Data Products". Anyway, he was clearly impressed enough with the machine to have Spectrum Projects become a TDP-100 retailer, [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1982-11/page/n78/mode/1up as advertised in the November 1982 ''Rainbow'']. (Hmm several months before writing his reviews, which did not mention him selling the product. CoCo fans can most likely forgive the apparent conflict of interest from such a stalwart supporter of the platform.)

In May 1983, John Steiner, in Issue 60 of ''Micro'' (formerly ''Micro 6502 Journal''), warned users of early-model TDPs: "There is no buffering between the processor and ROM slot, nor is there any between the controller input and ROM. A failure of either unit can easily damage both. As a precaution, be sure the power is off several seconds before reinstalling a card in the slot." [https://archive.org/details/Micro_NO._60_1983-05_Micro_Ink_US/page/n18/mode/1up]

In September 1983, Steiner, in Issue 64 of ''Micro'', passed along an important tip from Ron Krebs of [[Mark Data Products]]. It provides specifics (including part names and numbers) to fix a problem with high-resolution color graphics in early-model TDP-100s. [https://archive.org/details/micro-6502-journal-64/page/n21/mode/2up].

==Official TDP-Branded Accessories and Software==

This is just a list of '''''specifically TDP-branded''''' products. Obviously, the TDP-100 was not limited to only being able to use these products; since it could (with extremely rare exceptions) use any CoCo 1/2 program or accessory, regardless of whether that CoCo product was an official TDP-branded product, or a Tandy / Radio Shack-branded product, or from a third party.
TDP used "Stock Numbers" rather than Radio Shack Catalog Numbers.
All TDP-branded programs could run on the base model 16K TDP-100, with no Extended BASIC ROM necessary.
All these products had Radio Shack equivalents. When no "Radio Shack" equivalent name is given, the Radio Shack version's name was the same as the TDP version's.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Stock No. !! Product Name !! Radio Shack Equivalent !! RS Cat # !! Nov. 82 Price !! Notes
|-
| 10-1100 || Color Graphics Printer I || CGP-115 || 26-1192 || style="text-align:right;"|249.95 || Really a plotter, not a printer. Used 4½" wide roll paper
|-
| 10-1101 || Plotter Pens for 10-1100 Black x3 || || 26-1480 || style="text-align:right;"|2.95 ||
|-
| 10-1102 || 4⅞" Paper Roll for 10-1100 x3 || || 26-1428 || style="text-align:right;"|4.95 ||
|-
| 10-1103 || Plotter Pens for 10-1100 1 red 1 blue 1 green || || 26-1481 || style="text-align:right;"|2.95 ||
|-
| 10-1130 || Line Printer I || DMP-100* || 26-1253 || style="text-align:right;"|399.00 || *Or possibly the Line Printer VII (were they the same?)
|-
| 10-1131 || 9½" Paper for 10-1130 (500 sheets) || || 26-1423 || style="text-align:right;"|7.95 ||
|-
| 10-1132 || Ribbon for 10-1130 || || 26-1424 || style="text-align:right;"|8.95 ||
|-
| 10-1150 || Mini-Disk Drive || [[26-3022|Color Computer Mini Disk Drive #0]] || [[26-3022]] || style="text-align:right;"|599.00 ||
|-
| 10-1151 || 5¼" Diskette || || 26-0305 || style="text-align:right;"|3.95 ||
|-
| 10-1200|| "Black Beauty" Joystick (x2?) || || 26-3008 || style="text-align:right;"|12.95 ||
|-
| 10-1210 || Computer Dust Cover || Color Computer Dust Cover || 26-3006 || style="text-align:right;"|4.95 ||
|-
| 10-1250 || Computer Cassette Recorder || [[CCR-81]] || 26-1208 || style="text-align:right;"|59.95 ||
|-
| 10-1251 || Computer Cassette Tape (CT-10) || C-10 || 26-0302 || style="text-align:right;"|1.79 ||
|-
| 10-1252 || Computer Cassette Tape (CT-20) || C-20 || 26-0301 || style="text-align:right;"|3.69 ||
|-
| 10-1270|| Serial Cable 4-pin DIN to 4-pin DIN || || 26-3020 || style="text-align:right;"|4.95 ||
|-
| 10-1290 || Modem I || Direct Connect Modem I ||26-1172 || style="text-align:right;"|149.00 ||
|-
| 10-1300 || ''Super Bust-Out!'' || || 26-3056 || style="text-align:right;"|29.95 || [[Clone]] of ''Breakout''
|-
| 10-1301 || ''Space Assault''|| || 26-3060 || style="text-align:right;"|29.95 || [[Clone]] of ''Space Invaders''
|-
| 10-1302 || ''Project Nebula'' || || 26-3063 || style="text-align:right;"|39.95 ||
|-
| 10-1303 || ''Polaris'' || || 26-3065 || style="text-align:right;"|29.95 || [[Clone]] / derivative of ''Missile Command''
|-
| 10-1304 || ''Micro Painter'' || || 26-3077 || style="text-align:right;"|39.95 || Coloring book app. Radio Shack sold more pictures on tape
|-
| 10-1305 || ''Microbes'' || || 26-3085 || style="text-align:right;"|29.95 || [[Clone]] / derivative of ''Asteroids''
|-
| 10-1306 || ''Shooting Gallery'' || || 26-3088 || style="text-align:right;"|29.95 ||
|-
| 10-1307 || ''Personal Finance'' || || 26-3106 || style="text-align:right;"|39.95 ||
|-
| 10-1308 || ''Color File'' || || 26-3103 || style="text-align:right;"|29.95 || Database, saves files to tape
|-
| 10-1309 || ''Spectaculator'' || || 26-3104 || style="text-align:right;"|39.95 || Spreadsheet, saves files to tape
|-
| 10-1310 || ''Color Scripsit'' || || 26-3105 || style="text-align:right;"|39.95 || Word processor, saves files to tape
|-
| 10-1311 || ''Learning Lab'' || ''Color Computer Learning Lab'' || 26-3153 || style="text-align:right;"|39.95 ||
|-
| 10-1312 || ''Videotex'' || || 26-2222 || style="text-align:right;"|29.95 || [[Telecommunications]] app
|-
| 10-1313 || ''Chess'' || || 26-3050 || style="text-align:right;"|39.95||
|-
|}

==External Links==
*[https://tandydataproducts.com Tandy Data Products] Enthusiast website
*[https://www.facebook.com/groups/tandydataproducts/ TDP or Tandy Data Products] Facebook public group
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQdxZaXBp6o&t=6458s TDP Talk!] CoCoTalk! Episode 132 segment focused on TDP
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5GrlkaxF5o TDP System 100 - The Color Computer's Cousin] VintageGeek Episode on YouTube

TDP-100

2025-02-06T17:18:53Z

Carney: /* Accessories and Software */

{{NavCoCoRelatives}}
{{InfoBox |
| caption = TDP-100
| photo = TDP-100.jpg
| date =
| year = 1982
| notes = gold 64K badge is aftermarket
| infosource = see references
}}

The '''Tandy Data Products System 100''', or '''TDP-100''', was a Color Computer made by Tandy but marketed by Radio Corporation of America (RCA). The TDP-100 was notable in being marketed outside Tandy's traditional distribution channel of Radio Shack stores; instead being sold by retailers that sold RCA products. Tandy also made some otherwise-standard CoCo software and peripherals that were TDP-branded.

Tandy announced the TDP-100 in July 1982. [https://archive.org/details/sim_80-micro_1982-11_34/page/n471/mode/2up]

==Articles==

[[Bob Rosen]] of [[Spectrum Projects]] gave the TDP-100 [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1983-02/page/n153/mode/2up a favorable review in the February 1983 issue] of ''[[The Rainbow]]'' and in [https://archive.org/details/color-computer-magazine-1983-03/page/n59/mode/2up the April 1983 issue] of ''[[The Color Computer Magazine]]''. Somewhat strangely, he called TDP "Tandy ''Distributor'' Products" instead of "Tandy Data Products". Anyway, he was clearly impressed enough with the machine to have Spectrum Projects become a TDP-100 retailer, [https://archive.org/details/rainbowmagazine-1982-11/page/n78/mode/1up as advertised in the November 1982 ''Rainbow'']. (Hmm several months before writing his reviews, which did not mention him selling the product. CoCo fans can most likely forgive the apparent conflict of interest from such a stalwart supporter of the platform.)

In May 1983, John Steiner, in Issue 60 of ''Micro'' (formerly ''Micro 6502 Journal''), warned users of early-model TDPs: "There is no buffering between the processor and ROM slot, nor is there any between the controller input and ROM. A failure of either unit can easily damage both. As a precaution, be sure the power is off several seconds before reinstalling a card in the slot." [https://archive.org/details/Micro_NO._60_1983-05_Micro_Ink_US/page/n18/mode/1up]

In September 1983, Steiner, in Issue 64 of ''Micro'', passed along an important tip from Ron Krebs of [[Mark Data Products]]. It provides specifics (including part names and numbers) to fix a problem with high-resolution color graphics in early-model TDP-100s. [https://archive.org/details/micro-6502-journal-64/page/n21/mode/2up].

==Accessories and Software==

TDP used "Stock Numbers" rather than Radio Shack Catalog Numbers.
All TDP-branded programs could run on the base model 16K TDP-100, with no Extended BASIC ROM necessary.
All these products had Radio Shack equivalents. When no "Radio Shack" equivalent name is given, the Radio Shack equivalent name was the same as the TDP version.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Stock No. !! Product Name !! Radio Shack Equivalent !! RS Cat # !! Nov. 82 Price !! Notes
|-
| 10-1100 || Color Graphics Printer I || CGP-115 || 26-1192 || style="text-align:right;"|249.95 || Really a plotter, not a printer. Used 4½" wide roll paper
|-
| 10-1101 || Plotter Pens for 10-1100 Black x3 || || 26-1480 || style="text-align:right;"|2.95 ||
|-
| 10-1102 || 4⅞" Paper Roll for 10-1100 x3 || || 26-1428 || style="text-align:right;"|4.95 ||
|-
| 10-1103 || Plotter Pens for 10-1100 1 red 1 blue 1 green || || 26-1481 || style="text-align:right;"|2.95 ||
|-
| 10-1130 || Line Printer I || DMP-100* || 26-1253 || style="text-align:right;"|399.00 || *Or possibly the Line Printer VII (were they the same?)
|-
| 10-1131 || 9½" Paper for 10-1130 (500 sheets) || || 26-1423 || style="text-align:right;"|7.95 ||
|-
| 10-1132 || Ribbon for 10-1130 || || 26-1424 || style="text-align:right;"|8.95 ||
|-
| 10-1150 || Mini-Disk Drive || [[26-3022|Color Computer Mini Disk Drive #0]] || [[26-3022]] || style="text-align:right;"|599.00 ||
|-
| 10-1151 || 5¼" Diskette || || 26-0305 || style="text-align:right;"|3.95 ||
|-
| 10-1200|| "Black Beauty" Joystick (x2?) || || 26-3008 || style="text-align:right;"|12.95 ||
|-
| 10-1210 || Computer Dust Cover || Color Computer Dust Cover || 26-3006 || style="text-align:right;"|4.95 ||
|-
| 10-1250 || Computer Cassette Recorder || [[CCR-81]] || 26-1208 || style="text-align:right;"|59.95 ||
|-
| 10-1251 || Computer Cassette Tape (CT-10) || C-10 || 26-0302 || style="text-align:right;"|1.79 ||
|-
| 10-1252 || Computer Cassette Tape (CT-20) || C-20 || 26-0301 || style="text-align:right;"|3.69 ||
|-
| 10-1270|| Serial Cable 4-pin DIN to 4-pin DIN || || 26-3020 || style="text-align:right;"|4.95 ||
|-
| 10-1290 || Modem I || Direct Connect Modem I ||26-1172 || style="text-align:right;"|149.00 ||
|-
| 10-1300 || ''Super Bust-Out!'' || || 26-3056 || style="text-align:right;"|29.95 || [[Clone]] of ''Breakout''
|-
| 10-1301 || ''Space Assault''|| || 26-3060 || style="text-align:right;"|29.95 || [[Clone]] of ''Space Invaders''
|-
| 10-1302 || ''Project Nebula'' || || 26-3063 || style="text-align:right;"|39.95 ||
|-
| 10-1303 || ''Polaris'' || || 26-3065 || style="text-align:right;"|29.95 || [[Clone]] / derivative of ''Missile Command''
|-
| 10-1304 || ''Micro Painter'' || || 26-3077 || style="text-align:right;"|39.95 || Coloring book app. Radio Shack sold more pictures on tape
|-
| 10-1305 || ''Microbes'' || || 26-3085 || style="text-align:right;"|29.95 || [[Clone]] / derivative of ''Asteroids''
|-
| 10-1306 || ''Shooting Gallery'' || || 26-3088 || style="text-align:right;"|29.95 ||
|-
| 10-1307 || ''Personal Finance'' || || 26-3106 || style="text-align:right;"|39.95 ||
|-
| 10-1308 || ''Color File'' || || 26-3103 || style="text-align:right;"|29.95 || Database, saves files to tape
|-
| 10-1309 || ''Spectaculator'' || || 26-3104 || style="text-align:right;"|39.95 || Spreadsheet, saves files to tape
|-
| 10-1310 || ''Color Scripsit'' || || 26-3105 || style="text-align:right;"|39.95 || Word processor, saves files to tape
|-
| 10-1311 || ''Learning Lab'' || ''Color Computer Learning Lab'' || 26-3153 || style="text-align:right;"|39.95 ||
|-
| 10-1312 || ''Videotex'' || || 26-2222 || style="text-align:right;"|29.95 || [[Telecommunications]] app
|-
| 10-1313 || ''Chess'' || || 26-3050 || style="text-align:right;"|39.95||
|-
|}

==External Links==
*[https://tandydataproducts.com Tandy Data Products] Enthusiast website
*[https://www.facebook.com/groups/tandydataproducts/ TDP or Tandy Data Products] Facebook public group
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQdxZaXBp6o&t=6458s TDP Talk!] CoCoTalk! Episode 132 segment focused on TDP
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5GrlkaxF5o TDP System 100 - The Color Computer's Cousin] VintageGeek Episode on YouTube