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Tandy Color Computer 3

Tandy · 1986

The CoCo done properly: 128K expandable to 512K, a 640×192 sixteen-colour mode and a proper memory management unit, which made OS-9 Level II genuinely usable. The best of the family by a wide margin and the one worth seeking out.

As catalogued

Maker
Tandy
CPU
Motorola MC68B09E-1.79
Memory
128K, 512K
Styles
CoCo 3
Regions
NTSC (US), PAL (Europe)
Chassis
wedge, white case
OS
Extended Color BASIC 2.0 / OS-9 Level II

Chips

3
CPU
Motorola MC68B09E, Hitachi HD63B09E
GIME
Tandy GIME (1986), Tandy GIME (1987)
PIA
Motorola MC6821, Motorola MC6822

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