[Coco] The COCO vs The Apple II

[Willard Goosey]

Reading the old _Micro_ magazine at micro.applearchives.com will give you a pretty good picture of several of the 8-bit wars, including CoCo v. AppleII. I've found it to be fascinating reading.



Willard 
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-------- Original message --------
From Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com> 
Date: 01/10/2015  2:40 PM  (GMT-07:00) 
To CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com> 
Subject Re: [Coco] The COCO vs The Apple II 
 
> On Jan 10, 2015, at 5:25 AM, Aaron Wolfe <aawolfe at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Also Apple made a massive effort to get their computers into elementary
> schools, at least in the US.  At a time when home computers were new to
> parents they often just bought what the school had.  I remember handouts
> from my school actually recommending the purchase of specific Apple IIc
> systems.  Very effective advertising at the time.

Yeah, that had to be it. I knew a bunch of kids with computers, but I don't think I knew any that had an Apple 2 since they were $$$$.

In the CoCo book, which I started reading on my iPad recently, it says something about Radio Shack selling more computers than Apple when they started. Almost.

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