CP 450 was a large cabinet containing a
floppy disk
A floppy disk or floppy diskette (casually referred to as a floppy, or a diskette) is an obsolescent type of disk storage composed of a thin and flexible disk of a magnetic storage medium in a square or nearly square plastic enclosure lined w ...
drive interface, exactly like the
TRS-80 Color Computer, manufactured by
Prológica, a computer company located in
Brazil
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.
General information
The standard operating system is DOS-400, an adapted and renamed copy of disk
Extended Color BASIC Extended Color Basic is an update to the Color BASIC interpreter for the Radio Shack/Tandy TRS-80 Color Computer
The RadioShack TRS-80 Color Computer, later marketed as the Tandy Color Computer and sometimes nicknamed the CoCo, is a line of hom ...
(DECB or RSDOS).
It was also possible to run other operating systems, such as
Microware OS-09 and
TSC Flex9. Using OS-9 allowed the user to access all 64 KB of RAM available on this particular version of the
CP 400.
The CP 450 units stopped being manufactured at the end of 1986, along with other accessories suitable for the CP 400.
Bibliography
* Micro Computador - Curso Básico. Rio de Janeiro: Rio Gráfica, 1984, v. 1, pp. 49–50.
* ABREU, Carlos Alberto C. 77 programas para linha TRS-80. Rio de Janeiro: Microkit, 1985.
References
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Computer-related introductions in 1984