[Coco] Family computing magazine

[Bruce W. Calkins]

Few people recognized the depth of the CoCo's capability.  Even Radio 
Shack advertised it as a toy and downplayed it's true abilities.

Bruce W.


On 12/18/19 11:15 AM, rietveld rietveld wrote:
> I agree. I don't think they took the coco seriously. It was probably just supported to increase there market presence ; and in turn attract some related advertising revenue
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> On Dec 18, 2019, at 9:51 AM, rietveld rietveld <rietveldh at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> They were a nice general purpose magazine. It was one of the few non coco magazines that included the coco in there multi platform type in program listings
> When I got my CoCo, I still have a subscription. I was annoyed that when they’d do the CoCo version, they only had beep beep music. But for the Apple, they included a assembly routine in DATA statements to do the music. I wondered why they couldn’t do the same for CoCo and show that it could do multi voice music too. I guess they didn’t have a CoCo programmer capable of making them that kind of routine.
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