[Coco] Re: [Color Computer] end of discussion!start new

[Charles Richmond]

No less than William Shatner advertised the VIC-20 for 
Commodore..."It's the last computer you will *ever* have to 
buy!!!"...because it's expandable!!!

Also, Alan Alda used to advertise the Atari 8-bits...

The ads I remember for the Coco and for the TRS-80 were done by Issaic Asimov.


>Actually, I aways thought the CoCo did rather well dispite Lack of
>marketing. When all the other 8 bit machines had rather agressive marketing,
>tons of TV commericals, Celebrty Endorsments (who could forget Bill Cosby
>pumping the TI 99/4A), The CoCo contiuned to sell for at least 10 years!
>Infact, the only TV comericals I ever remember from the CoCo were just Radio
>Shack Comericals, that had the CoCo as part of what ever was on sale. I
>could be wrong, but that was just up here in Canada! The CRTC tended to Edit
>American Comericals out with Canadian ones.
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>>Even a good product can benefit from aggressive marketing - something
>>the coco really never had.
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>>  > So far as the CoCo is concerned, it's largely moot now.  Pretty much
>>  > the only market for "successors" to the CoCo is the existing userbase
>>  > and nostalgia freaks like me.
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>>Thanks for your kind indulgence
>>kk
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