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

[Thierry Mella]

Hi Fedor,

Nice to hear from you ! How are you ?

> I can confirm what Torsten and Thierry wrote. For me, I was growing up in
> the Netherlands (Holland) and Radio Shack was represented here by the
> "Tandy" stores by which it was known. I reckon the name "Tandy" worked
> better than "Radio Shack" for people in this part of the world.

The same in Belgium.

> But Commodore 64 was much more popular.

Always that bloody C64 !!!

> At one time I used to be bullied by
> a guy who had a C64. We both went to some electronics course  in the
> evenings at school. He kept calling me "Tandy boy" and tried to be
> intimidating, intercepting me as I was trying to bike home. Those were the
> days...

The C64 was for the kids who said to theirs parents "I want to learn
computer science" and, instead, plays games with it all the time.

The Coco was for the neirdy guy who really wants to program.

But I recognize that I was jealous of the plain screen text editor of 
the C64.
In counterpart, the 6809 was much more powerful than the 6502 !

Note that Dragon 32 was also popular. And there was a challenge to translate
the Coco programs in Dragon programs in my school.

Thierry

-- 
I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.