Photos: Cracking open the TRS-80 | CNET News.com

I found this site interesting. They have cracked open a TRS-80 Color Computer 2 and have the pictures. This is a very recent posting, Feb 2008.
Photos: Cracking open the TRS-80 | CNET News.com

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Anonymous said…
Hello Jim, your CoCo pages do not work correctly. I clicked on "IDE Hard Drive interface" but no success - blog is missing. What happened ?

Vaclav
7:34 AM
Jim said…
I have moved most of this stuff over to http://www.hat3.net/
You should be able to find what you are looking for there.
11:59 PM
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