Impressive Coco 1 - it even has a 3rd party after market replacement keyboard (a Mark Data Products one by the looks of it). Plus an LED power light would have been installed by the previous owner. I am guessing by position of the TRS-80 Color Computer badge (to the left rather than centred) and the fact that has a Tandy 32K RAM badge, that it is probably an "E" revision motherboard? (It might even have 64K RAM if you are lucky - Tandy did some 32K upgrades that were actually 64K). HDB DOS allows you to use a hard drive with partitioned disks, and also lets you use the serial port on the back (which you found the cable for near the beginning of the video) to run a Drivewire server, so that you can use a PC (or Mac) to load / save files to the Coco as a virtual drive (that's the "DW" that your HDBDOS splash screen mentions). Mega-Bug is an oddball; Datasoft made it for multiple 8 bit computers back in the day, but under different names: Dung Beetles for the Apple II and Atari 400/800, and then later rename it Tumble Bugs (the Coco kept the Mega-Bug name). The extra loose 6809E chip is intriguing... I wonder if this one has been upgrade to a Hitachi 6309E?
Mega-Bug looks like a fun game. I'll need to check that out in more detail.
Nice, I caught this one a little after Septandy. Enjoy your Coco, they really are fun ;)
Impressive Coco 1 - it even has a 3rd party after market replacement keyboard (a Mark Data Products one by the looks of it). Plus an LED power light would have been installed by the previous owner. I am guessing by position of the TRS-80 Color Computer badge (to the left rather than centred) and the fact that has a Tandy 32K RAM badge, that it is probably an "E" revision motherboard? (It might even have 64K RAM if you are lucky - Tandy did some 32K upgrades that were actually 64K). HDB DOS allows you to use a hard drive with partitioned disks, and also lets you use the serial port on the back (which you found the cable for near the beginning of the video) to run a Drivewire server, so that you can use a PC (or Mac) to load / save files to the Coco as a virtual drive (that's the "DW" that your HDBDOS splash screen mentions).
Mega-Bug is an oddball; Datasoft made it for multiple 8 bit computers back in the day, but under different names: Dung Beetles for the Apple II and Atari 400/800, and then later rename it Tumble Bugs (the Coco kept the Mega-Bug name).
The extra loose 6809E chip is intriguing... I wonder if this one has been upgrade to a Hitachi 6309E?
Don't eat bugs Drake 🤷♂
You're not Drake's real dad 🙂
Nice machine there.. you most likely have a 6309 cpu .. if the 6809 is in the box., there a a few games etc that will run better with that .