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

[Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)]

I think Tandy screwed the marketing in UK. It should be TRS-80 "COLOUR"
instead. Maybe this explains the British preference for the Dragon :P


On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Simon Jonassen <simon at roust-it.dk> wrote:

> Hello Boisy...
>
> I have a PAL coco II (allbeit a koko with the T1 chip)
>
> Bought and paid for from a local Tandy store in the UK in 84/85....
>
> So the coco2 was marketed outside the US, manuals were all in english....
>
> /Simon :-)
>
>
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> Sendt: 15. april 2013 15:20
> Til: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> Emne: [Coco] The CoCo outside of the U.S.
>
> I want to tap into the collective knowledge of the list here, especially
> those outside of the U.S. who are members and who owned Color Computers
> back
> in the day.
>
> In the upcoming book, Bill and I want to touch a bit on CoCo as it existed
> outside of the U.S. There's the issue of clones, which is a different topic
> and not what I'm looking to discuss at the moment.
>
> 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?
>
> 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?
>
>
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