[Coco] NEC PC6001, a shadow of the CoCo

[RJRTTY at aol.com]

In a message dated 3/3/2008 11:33:53 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
6809er at bjork-huffman.net writes:


>DataSoft (or any other American company) never got another port  
>project for the PC6001 and it was very quickly replace with a better  
>designed model.

>That the story and the reason for the short  life of the NEC 
>PC6001.  I could not wait to ship that piece of  crape back to Japan.

>Steve (Mega-Bug) Bjork
 
 
I seem to remember reading somewhere that Tandy took
some heat for using the 6809 in the coco over the Z80 like in its
other machines.    I guess even they got it right once
in awhile.... by chance.
 
Roy
 



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