[Coco] CoCo TALK #18 an introduction to OS9

Gregory Law glaw at live.com
Mon Jul 24 22:31:44 EDT 2017


Yes, you're right. I was thinking of the prototype case with the 
built-in floppy drive.

On 7/24/2017 1:10:24 PM, "Arthur Flexser" <flexser at fiu.edu> wrote:

>On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 8:01 AM, Gregory Law <glaw at live.com> wrote:
>
>>   In some ways I'm glad Radio Shack brought out the more
>>  capable Color Computer 3 instead of the Deluxe Color Computer, 
>>although
>>  I think it would have been nice to have a more business-like case 
>>like
>>  the Deluxe Color Computer.
>>
>
>First I've heard that the aborted Deluxe Color Computer had a case that 
>was
>any different than that of the CoCo 3.  As I recall, there were several
>tiny pictures of it in RS catalogs that looked no different than a CoCo 
>3.
>And the keyboard of it was identical to a CoCo 3, and sold for a time 
>for
>$4.95 in the stores as a separate item, prior to the CoCo 3's advent.
>
>Maybe you are confusing it with the prototype case, never produced, 
>that
>was pictured in Bill and Boisy's book, with the built-in floppy drive?
>
>Art
>
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