[Coco] CoCo and Timex-Sinclair?

[Richard Atkinson]

They both have a 256x192 screen resolution which is not commonly seen with
the Atari, Commodore or Apple computers.

(Other computers that use 256x192 include computers using the TMS9918A video
chip, i.e. Coleco Adam and MSX)


On 1/18/07, Leon Howell <puritan_2076 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> My first computer was almost a second hand CoCo 2. Instead I got a Timex
> sinclair 1000 a few years later. This is a weird coincidence since I kept
> seing ads for CoCo stuff in T/S newsletters, and T/S stuff in CoCo
> newsletters. Zebra Systems (the T/S equivalent of Disto?) supported both.
> There are liks to the Glenside club's web site on the T/S web sites, and
> I've
> read in CoCo-123 about T-SNUG members attending GCCC meetings.
>
> Why? What is it about CoCo and T/S that gets so many of us interested in
> both?
>
> I could see the Atari & Commodore communities overlaping like this, or
> even
> Apple & Atari, but why CoCo & T/S? They have nothing in common...do they?
>
> I'm not complaining. I really like my T/S-2068 with Timex disk system. I'm
> just curious.
>
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