Matt J. McCullar wrote:
assembler cartridge. That computer eventually caught fire (literally!) while it was sitting on my bed and I happened to see and smell smoke barrelling out of it. I eventually found out that Radio Shack put the power switch on the secondary of the CoCo's transformer; therefore, as long as the power cord was plugged in, it was consuming power whether the switch was on or not! Damn lucky I happened to be there at the time, or who knows what might have happened.
The engineer who designed that rig, eventually found his way to Sony, where he's still busy setting fire to computers to this very day.