[Coco] CoCo Discrimination

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 17 July 2019 17:46:53 Deny Wilson wrote:

> You mean Apple elitism didn't start with the Mac?

Long before the mac. I once tried to fix the email agent on a 17" mac 
which slightly resembled Thor on the Amiga. Gave up as my A2000 Amiga 
with a pp&s 68040 card and 64  megs of ram was easily 100x faster than 
that mac.  She, a school teacher also, was out in the pucker brush so 
far that a 2400 baud modem couldn't keep up with the line noise. She 
eventually got a pc, and that Just Works most of the time.  Semi-private 
ma & pa phone company out there. A call to the school where she taught, 
about 7 miles away, was dollar a minute long distance.

> 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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