It has like 300 views and 2 comments, I figure it deserves a little more love than that :)
link?
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I'm sorry, I got confused thinking I was just adding a thumbnail but actually replaced the link with the image. Thank you for pointing that out to me lol ๐
I actually had one of these, being a kid unable to afford even the CoCo at the time. Yeeks. A hobbled 'starter micro' for the time.
Tandy could've actually made it compatible with the CoCo for 1 or 2 dollars more per unit, but for some insane reason decided to use the 6803 instead of the 6809E, and make the BASIC use different token encodings from the CoCo (cause why be compatible at all?!) rendering it a silly dead-end machine. And all a mere 1 or 2 years before the 16-bit era began, putting all 8-bits on notice in general...