[Coco] The CoCo outside of the U.S.

[Boisy G. Pitre]

Just to clarify: the CoCo 3 did NOT sell in Europe? That's interesting, and I didn't know that.

Apparently the CoCo 1 did. I had verification that the CoCo 2 did as well.

There was a PAL version of the CoCo 3 in Australia, I believe. Perhaps Nick, Bob and the rest of the gang down there can comment on it.

On Apr 15, 2013, at 10:44 AM, Phill Harvey-Smith <afra at ramoth.org.uk> wrote:

>> On 2013-04-15, at 7:19 AM, "Boisy G. Pitre" <boisy at tee-boy.com>
>> wrote:
>>> My understanding is that there were different subsidiaries of Tandy
>>> in different countries setup to handle Radio Shack store sales
>>> there. Canada had InterTan. Who did Australia have?  Europe?
> 
> I believe that InterTan did the UK, their UK offices where only 20ish miles up the road in Birmingham :)
> 
>>> It also appears that international CoCo sales started with the CoCo
>>> 2, then carried on with the CoCo 3. I know that a PAL version of
>>> the CoCo 3… what about a CoCo 2? And were there any other languages
>>> that the BASIC manual was printed in besides English?
> 
> I have several PAL / 240V CoCo 1s (grey case), and also the CoCo 1 shaped machine with the white case (also PAL).
> 
> So I'd say that at least in the UK they where being sold in the CoCo 1 era.
> 
> Strangely I don't think they ever marketed the CoCo 3 here, though the but do remember the CoCo 2 and the MC10 being on sale and considered rather expensive at the time compared to Dragons and other UK computers.
> 
> Cheers.
> 
> Phill.
> 
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