CODA version 1.4 and below were documented in a paper manual which was written using Framemaker. As CODA became larger, and especially with CODA 2, the paper format became difficult to maintain. The paper manual is still availible as a postscript file ftp://ftp.jlab.org/coda/docs/manual/coda1.4.ps and as html generated by Framemaker. These CODA 1.2 manuals are included in the hope that they will be useful both to CODA users since many sections of the paper manual are still valid.