[Coco] CoCo 3 prototypes.

[jdaggett at gate.net]

Boisy

That makes sense also. I have designed and built many software 
test platformes for products. Used to devleope and finalized 
software within a product.  

Often these will not look 100% like the final product.

james

On 13 Jan 2005 at 21:43, Boisy G. Pitre wrote:

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> On Jan 13, 2005, at 9:21 PM, jdaggett at gate.net wrote:
> > 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,
> 
> Actually, that is not the case here.  What Al has found are the very
> first prototypes of the CoCo 3 that Tandy provided Microware in order
> for them to work on the ROMs.  I've heard the story first hand from
> the developers who worked on the project, and they said that these
> boards were live, working, and used in the early stages of the ROM
> updating effort.
> 
> I'm pleasantly surprised that they were found; when I worked for
> Microware, I never located them.  I heard they existed at one time,
> but no one could account for them.
> 
> Boisy
> 
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