[Coco] CoCo and Timex-Sinclair?

[Phill Harvey-Smith]

Leon Howell wrote:
> My first computer was almost a second hand CoCo 2. Instead I got a Timex 
> sinclair 1000 a few years later. This is a weird coincidence since I kept 
> seing ads for CoCo stuff in T/S newsletters, and T/S stuff in CoCo 
> newsletters. 

That's kinda odd, my first computer was a 16K ZX81, back in early 1984, 
for those of you that don't know the Sinclair ZX81, was the machine that 
was marketed in the US as the TS-1000.

About 6 months later I picked up a Cheap Dragon 32, when Dragon Data 
went down the tubes so a similar progression :)

> Why? What is it about CoCo and T/S that gets so many of us interested in both?
> 
> I could see the Atari & Commodore communities overlaping like this, or even 
> Apple & Atari, but why CoCo & T/S? They have nothing in common...do they?

Well I suppose both machines had some interesting features, and things 
done in software that where normally done in hardware, e.g. the 
ZX81/TS-1000 both generate their video signal mostly in software, 
likewise with sound on the CoCo/Dragon.

> I'm not complaining. I really like my T/S-2068 with Timex disk system. I'm 
> just curious.

Nah, I still have my original ZX81, plus one I built from a kit, that 
was a birthday present last year :)

Cheers.

Phill

-- 
Phill Harvey-Smith, Programmer, Hardware hacker, and general eccentric !

"You can twist perceptions, but reality won't budge" -- Rush.