Coco variations (was: Proper name for Tandy Color Computer?

[Tony Duell]

> I believe the videotex terminal was the predecessor to the coco 1. It's
> motherboard was based on Motorola's reference design for the 6809.

I was under the impression that the CoCo was sold first (which was 
designed first is another matter). The CoCo 1 design is very close to the 
Motorola app note for the 6883 SAM...

> 
> The videotex machine was silver. The later white coco 1's were general

Early CoCo1s were silver too...

> purpose machines (I'm not sure if they all had 64K but maybe). At the
> very least they had a different keyboard.
> 
> The original chiclet keyboard has one advantage-- you can put a template
> over it to give special meaning to each key, and these templates were
> shipped with some programs.

YEs, I have a couple. I can't remember which programs they're for, 
though, and I am not going to hunt for them to check...

-tony