[Coco] Interesting Old Coco History Article

[L. Curtis Boyle]

On Wed, 01 Aug 2007 16:36:05 -0600, Arthur Flexser <flexser at fiu.edu> wrote:

$549.99 Canadian for 4K Coco 1 - no peripherals at all, in June 1981.


> You might want to give your parents a break, depending on what year you  
> are
> talking about.  I think I paid over $600 for my 16K CoCo 1 around 1981,  
> and it
> didn't even include a disk system.  (Nor, I'm sure, does the $200 quote.)
>
> Art
>
>
> On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Hex Star wrote:
>
>> On 8/1/07, Hex Star <hexstar at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
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>> > >
>> > Wait, less then $200 for a CoCo and my parents bought me that piece  
>> of ...
>> > as a kid when I asked for a computer?? Grrr those ignorant... :P
>> >
>>
>> To clarify what I meant is that the CoCo was very affordable and yet  
>> when I
>> was young my parents instead bought me a toy computer?! The nerve! :P  
>> lol
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