Compucolor items on eBay

[Tom Hudson]

For me, it was a choice between the Compucolor II and an Apple II.  The 
decision was based on the Compucolor's built-in RGB monitor vs. the 
Apple's RF video output, which I felt was not as good-looking.  That 
plus the fact that I'd have to buy an expensive color TV as well as the 
computer, and that would have broken my budget.

You're right about the quirks.  The screen RAM was used as a buffer when 
the floppy was doing certain operations.  And the file system was truly 
strange -- If you saved a file with the same name as an existing one, it 
would leave the old one intact and create a new file with an incremental 
version number.  IIRC, that was a leftover from the 8-track file system 
the previous version of the Compucolor used.

-Tom

Chandra Bajpai wrote:

>The compucolor II was the system I lusted after when I was a kid...but
>my dad bought a TRS-80 instead.
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>Are there any CompuColor II manuals or emulators on line?
>I heard there are quirks to the CompuColor Hardware - like the screen
>buffer is actually used during floppy I/O.
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