[Coco] Re: [Color Computer] Complete Commodore 64 home computer on a single chip

[Arthur Flexser]

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, Neil Morrison wrote:
> From: "George H" <highplainsthumper at yahoo.com>
> 
> > What I was referring to is they would steer customers away from the
> > CoCo and into their more expensive TRS-80 BASIC, CP/M and later MS-Dos
> > / Windows systems.
> 
> You're confusing the company and the sales people. The sales people hated
> the Coco stuff because the net commissions were small and the hassle was
> extreme. We used to hide the Coco stuff out back so the subject didn't come
> up.
> 

I think the statement is also true of the company.  From their marketing
strategy, it is clear that they saw the CoCo as something to be promoted
as a kid's computer, something that would make a nice Christmas gift for a
child to play Rompack games on.  Look at Tandy's old Rainbow ads.

Art