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Re:Motorola 6800 by PaulHoule on Friday June 24, 2022 @01:39PM (#31866359)
I had the multi pak and the external uart. The entry level price of the coco was low but I think I got most of the peripherals available for it, particularly the disks were crazy expensive. Adding it all up I must have spent more than I spent on the AT clone that replaced it ($1200)

In most ways the C-64 was a great machine but boy was the disk drive slow.

Re:Motorola 6800 by jhallenworld on Friday June 24, 2022 @02:00PM (#31866689)
Perfect system == 6809 + SIO from the Atari800 + C64 SID + IBM PC keyboard + C64 VIC or maybe V9938.
Re:Motorola 6800 by ddingus on Saturday June 25, 2022 @12:02AM (#31872486)
That would be fun!

I would add the MMU from the CoCo 3, so one can bank in lots of RAM with only minor league fuss.