[Coco] CoCo 3 prototypes.

[jdaggett at gate.net]

Al

Having been part of several design teams for electronic equiptment, 
the early stages of a project are what is often known as feasiblity 
study. Engineering teams build breadboards and concepts of what a 
product and/or product family could look like. 

I have seen a design undergo as many a three major changes due 
to costs, manufacturing concerns, marketing concerns,  industrial 
design concerns and/or even a higher manager exerting his will on 
the product. My guess is that what you may have seen was a 
concept of what the Coco 3 could have been if a design team had 
sufficient budget,  free will over what the product family could have 
grown to and what marketing was willing to accept and sell. 

james


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> Brother Jeremy, et al.
> 
> I have now seen two original CoCO 3 prototypes (not the ones like
> BrJeremy has at the Fests, but large breadboard ones).  There are two
> of them, and also two CoCo ethernet cards and another card that looks
> to be the chips on the enet card but with no CoCo connector.  The CoCo
> 3's appear to be GIME-less.  At least, I didn't see anything that
> looked like a GIMI (but the enet cards have a GIMI-like packaged
> chip). 
>   These seem to have been shipped to MW around 8/1/1985 or so, so who
> knows.
> 
> Anyone care to speculate?
> 
>       -- Allen
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