Radio Shack Commercial for Color Computer 2

Wow! Thanks for this upload. I always thought that it was a good computer but it was competitively pushed against the Commodore 64 and Atari ST by Radio Shack Corp. It seemed like the secondary computer. It was a solid computer though and a family could have run their household business and school needs on it easily with the software package available for it. Thanks again for the memories!

This was a fantastic computer. I got the Color Computer 3 as a gift in 1986 at the end of the year and loved it. It was my pride and joy for years to come. I got to use this system above, the Coco2 in 1991 thanks to a friend who had an extra one before they upgraded to their Coco3 who let me borrow it. The GIME chip was a huge advancement for the CoCo, and it really did have a 256 color mode that had been rumored (Wikipedia needs to be updated; a guy named John implemented it at CocoFest2010).

Great quality on that commercial! Our family had that "computer". Be we won it. We didn't pay for it.

It was my first Color computer 2 was my first computer, started with it connected to our home TV. wrote basic programs and then had to turn it off lost everything. Moved up to a cassette player to save and load programs. By the time I was ready to move on. I had expanded it to the max, with a Hard drive and ran a BBS under a Unix like OS called "OS-9". I programmed it at first with basic and assembly, moved up to C. Hardware hacked the computer, to run a laser light show.

This thing cost 150$ when it came out. Now it costs 200$ off ebay because its "vintage"

My first computer. Had a book you had to copy line by line to gt it to do anything. And if you spent 2 hours typing and missed ONE space or letter, nothing. Then you go watch the weather channel and listen to the music. Ahhh the 80s

music was done at Buffalo Sound Studio in Ft. Worth, TX

Thanks. I'll add it

CoCo Master Race

Damn, someone had cable in the 80s, it's so clear

I just upgraded mine with CocoVGA high resolution video, a multi pack interface, a double disk FD501 drive.
That give this computer a second life !

Color computer 2 030

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