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

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In Belgium we had Tandy stores.



On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Boisy G. Pitre <boisy at tee-boy.com> wrote:

> 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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