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Original song |
I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy |
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Original artist |
George Michael Cohan |
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Filk author |
Tony Duell |
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Intro |
Notes for those not familar with the terms in this poem -- see below |
I'm a CoCo3 from Tandy
I'm a CoCo Three from Tandy
Hi Res Graphics do or die
A custom GIME in place of my SAM
OS-9 will really fly
I've a Multi-PAK interface
Disk and R S 2 3 2
CoCo System multi-user
with a C compiler
And full BASIC-09 too
Notes for those not familar with the terms in this song:
- The Tandy Color Computer 3 (CoCo 3) was probably one of the cheapest
ever machines that could run a multi-tasking, multi-user operating
system
- GIME ("GIMM-EE")
- The custom chip in a CoCo 3 that handled address translation,
graphics, memory refresh,etc (acronym for Graphics, Interrupts, Memory
Enhancements)
- SAM
- Synchronous Address Multiplexor - the chip in older CoCo that handled
memory refresh and graphic address generation
- OS-9
- Microware's operating system that was available for the CoCo
- Multi-PAK interface
- A box that was originally designed to allow 4 games
cartridges (Program Paks) to be plugged in at once. Used by hackers
to allow the disk controller, RS232 port, etc to be plugged in at once
- BASIC-09
- a structured basic produced by Microware for OS-9 and much nicer
than the ROM basic in the machine
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