The TRS 80 Color Computer 2, or popularly the CoCo 2, was introduced in 1983 as a replacement for the first CoCo, which was now known as the CoCo 1. The CoCo 2 has the same characteristics as the CoCo 1 but is equipped with a better keyboard and more integrated circuitry.

Several models of the CoCo 2 were produced, with increasing RAM capacities. The original version came with 8K RAM, but later the machine was provided with 16, 32 and finally 64K of RAM.

The CoCo 2 runs on the Motorola 6809E processor clocked at 0.89MHz. By programming the clock generator, speeds of 1.8MHz could be achieved.

Expansion Ports:

• Expansion/Cartridge port
• Two analog joystick connectors
• Cassette Interface, 1500 baud
• RS232 Serial port
• RF TV connector

The Motorola 6809 is an 8-bit microprocessor with some 16-bit features. It was designed by Motorola's Terry Ritter and Joel Boney and introduced in 1978. Although source compatible with the earlier Motorola 6800, the 6809 offered significant improvements over it and 8-bit contemporaries like the MOS Technology 6502, including a hardware multiplication instruction, 16-bit arithmetic, system and user stack registers allowing re-entrant code, improved interrupts, position-independent code and an orthogonal instruction set architecture with a comprehensive set of addressing modes.

The MC6847 is a video display generator (VDG) first introduced by Motorola and used in the following machines (this is not a full list):