Fwd: Re: [Coco] Re: [Color Computer] What's wrong with this Picture

[L. Curtis Boyle]

    I don't know if this message it out to the list earlier, so I am trying  
to resend it...


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From: "L. Curtis Boyle" <curtisboyle at sasktel.net>
To: ColorComputer at yahoogroups.com, "CoCoList for Color Computer  
Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Subject: Re: [Coco] Re: [Color Computer] What's wrong with this Picture
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 11:52:06 -0600

On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 19:06:40 +0000, James the Animal Tamer
<emucompboy at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
>
>> OH! JOY! and just relive Tandy's worst mistake on the COCO ever.
>
> I vote that Tandy's worst mistake on the CoCo was to make the MC-10's
> BASIC tokens different from the CoCo's.  This would be just behind
> making the MC-10 at all.
>
>
>> >if you want to have fun, stick a CoCo 1 chicklet keyboard on a CoCo
> 3!
>
     I think Tandy's worst mistake (hardware wise) was selling 64K Coco's as
32K machines in 1982-1983. Their worst mistake with the Coco, period,
would be marketing in general; not selling 3rd party hardware/software in
their stores, not carrying magazines. While other manufacturers at the
time (Commodore, Atari) all encouraged 3rd party development, Radio Shack
took the attitude that all you should get is the stuff that they made or
sub-contracted from in house.



-- 
L. Curtis Boyle