TRS-80 Color Computer Book

TRS-80 Color Computer Book
TRS-80 Color Computer Book
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consistsofarticles available from Wikipedia or other free sourcesonline.High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Radio ShackTRS-80Color Computer was a home computer launched in 1980. Despitethename, the "Color Computer" was a radical departure fromearlierTRS-80 Models - in particular it had a Motorola 6809Eprocessor,rather than the TRS-80's Zilog Z80.The Motorola 6809E wasa veryadvanced processor, but was correspondingly more expensivethanother more popular microprocessors. Competing machines such astheCommodore VIC-20, the Commodore 64, the Atari 400, and theAtari800 were designed around a combination of the much cheaper6502,paired with dedicated sound and graphics chips and were muchmorecommercially successful in the 1980s home computer market.SteveWozniak once commented that the 6502 was 1/4 the price oftheMotorola 6800 when the original Apple was being developed inthelate 70s. By 1986 prices for 8 bit processors had dropped dramatically from the late 70s, but the MC6809 was still just overtwice the price of a MOS6502.