[Coco] Re: [Color Computer] What's wrong with this Picture

[L. Curtis Boyle]

On Mon, 18 Apr 2005 19:06:40 +0000, James the Animal Tamer  
<emucompboy at yahoo.com> wrote:

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>> OH! JOY! and just relive Tandy's worst mistake on the COCO ever.
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> I vote that Tandy's worst mistake on the CoCo was to make the MC-10's
> BASIC tokens different from the CoCo's.  This would be just behind
> making the MC-10 at all.
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>> >if you want to have fun, stick a CoCo 1 chicklet keyboard on a CoCo
> 3!
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    I think Tandy's worst mistake (hardware wise) was selling 64K Coco's as  
32K machines in 1982-1983. Their worst mistake with the Coco, period,  
would be marketing in general; not selling 3rd party hardware/software in  
their stores, not carrying magazines. While other manufacturers at the  
time (Commodore, Atari) all encouraged 3rd party development, Radio Shack  
took the attitude that all you should get is the stuff that they made or  
sub-contracted from in house.

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L. Curtis Boyle