[Coco] colorburst

[Arthur Flexser]

Was this before Tandy introduced their MPI?  I suspect that might be the
case for them to think there would be a demand for this at that price.

That the ad appeared in two issues as opposed to a single issue doesn't
really give evidence one way or the other as to this gadget's being a real
thing.  You got a cheaper per-issue ad rate if you committed to multiple
issues.  They may have figured that if they sold even one, it would cover
the cost of the ads (depends on how large the ads were), so they could wait
and see if any orders came in before actually trying to construct one of
these.

Who's the vendor?  Did they ever advertise any other products?

Art

On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 4:17 PM, Bill Pierce via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
wrote:

>
> Robert, did you look at the price of the unit? It's no wonder they never
> sold.
> I saw one in the very first Rainbow I bought and had no idea at the time
> what they were. Then after I learned a few things about my Coco and begin
> to have a desire for an MPI, I remembered seeing the ColorBurt and went
> through my Rainbows and found it. I looked at the price, then closed the
> magazine.
> At $79, the Tandy MPI was less than 1/10th the price compared to the
> ColorBurst's $999. Yes, it has a lot of cool stuff, but at that time, I
> just wanted an MPI :-)
> The Color Burst appeared in at least 2 Rainbows (I never owned the one you
> referenced), so it must have been a real product.
>
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