[Coco] [Color Computer] RE: [CoCo] Atari and Amiga comparison

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From: Roger Merchberger <zmerch-coco at 30below.com>
> Rumor has it that Frank Pittel may have mentioned these words:
> >On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 03:22:02PM -0400, RJRTTY at aol.com wrote:
> >
> >
> >I've often wondered what things would have been like if the coco had
> >been built around a 68000 unstead of a 6809.
> 
> Very Late?
> 
> ;-)
> 
> The CoCo in it's original incarnation was released in 1979, methinks the 
> 68K wasn't even a gleam in Daddy Motorola's eye yet... ;-)

The Color Computer was announced July 31, 1980 along with the Vidtex terminal, the Model 3 and the Pocket Computer PC-1.  The 68000 was being used in several machines by then, mostly on S-100 boards -- Sage comes to mind.
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> 
> The CoCo3 [1] might not have been as widespread as it was if they'd chosen 
> to design around the 68K, mainly because 1) if they emulated the 6809, 
> legacy software would've run slower than stock CoCos, or 2) the computer 
> wouldn't have been compatible with the large installed base of CoCos that 
> existed at the time.
> 
> Laterz,
> Roger "Merch" Merchberger
> 
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