[Coco] CoCo Discrimination

[Salvador Garcia]

 Yeah, I recall that nickname back in '78(ish). I never liked it. So, the TRS-80 wan't a super computer. It was still a feat on engineering to bring computing to people who couldn't pay $2000 for a computer. Apples in that day weren't much better or much worse. Salvador
    On Wednesday, July 17, 2019, 04:58:28 PM CDT, Charles Allison via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:  
 
 I loved my CoCo and still do but that was the nickname at my High School when I was a kid.

Chuck Allison

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> On Jul 17, 2019, at 16:46, Deny Wilson <deny.wilson at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> You mean Apple elitism didn't start with the Mac?
> 
>> On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 3:41 PM Mark Anderson <rammdesign at msn.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I have to say I'm shocked at the level of discrimination I receive when I
>> wear my TRS-80 color computer Radio Shack black T-shirt in public, most
>> notable, in bookstores.
>> 
>> In the past six months, at two different bookstores, I've had an older
>> couple and an older gentlemen both scoff and say "Trash 80" out loud at me
>> with a smirk on two separate occasions.
>> 
>> The first time, I let it go, but this last time I said "Don't say that
>> sir.". He confronted me and said he had an Apple back in the day. I told
>> him I was published in the Rainbow magazine at age 10 and he asked me if I
>> still had a TRS-80. I said I had several.
>> 
>> Just wanted to know if anyone else here has had similar stories....
>> 
>> Mark
>> 
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