[Coco] CoCo 4 - was Radio Shack CEO Resigns.

[James Hrubik]

Ah, but Frank, I did mean it.  A CoCo 4 is not what I was pointing  
at.  It was the concept of an IBM consumer outlet for it's PPC  
machines.  If (as theorized by John Dvorak) Apple is about to drop  
it's OS and embrace MS Windows, there will be a market for people who  
want anything else.  There will also be a market for any big name  
that seriously pushes Open Source.  A PPC CoCo would not be a CoCo 4,  
but as the descendant of the machines that got so many people started  
in computing, would provide a similar opportunity to a new generation.

I see a market niche waiting to be filled if Apple does what Dvorak  
thinks it is going to do.  And I hope he's wrong.  Very wrong.

On Feb 21, 2006, at 9:36 PM, farna at att.net wrote:

> I know you didn't mean anything, but you hit a nail right on the  
> head -- by accident! The whole "CoCo4" thing was really upset by  
> the vast difference between the typical CoCo user and OS-9 types.  
> OS-9 (now really NitrOS-9) really turns the CoCo into a totally  
> different machine. The draw of simple computing pulled most CoCoers  
> in, only a relative few (back in 91 or so, about when Tandy  
> announced no more CoCo3s would be made) were really into OS-9.
>
>
>
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> Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 10:22:45 -0500
> From: James Hrubik <jimhrubik at earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Raido Shack CEO Resigns.
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> But without Motorola being the big player any more, maybe IBM should
> buy Tandy, sell off everything but Radio Shack, market their PowerPC
> Linux machines through the retail stores, and provide both Apple and
> Billysoft with some competition on the consumer front.  Nitros9 could
> be ported to the PPCs, and the PPC CoCo would rise above the crud.
>
> On Feb 21, 2006, at 10:07 AM, Rod Barnhart wrote:
>
>> Maybe bring in Sockmaster to do his dream design of a CoCo4?
>>
>

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