[Coco] Can anyone explain this?

[Arthur Flexser]

Uh, what's "the bubble"?  I guess I should know this, but I'm drawing a blank,
perhaps because my first CoCo was an E board, and so presumably lacked one.

Art

On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, Bruce W. Calkins wrote:

> > The coco 1 without the bubble can't be that rare, Even in mint condition.
> 
> The "bubble" was discontinued sometime about or during the the E board run. 
> I've yet to see an E board with or a D board without.
> 
> 
> 
> > There does seem to be a run on bidding for CoCo 1's over the past few 
> > days.
> 
> I have seen this sort of craziness from time to time.  With 18 bids it is 
> the buyers who are getting excited.
> 
> 
> 
> > Since no Extended BASIC manual seems to be shown in the photos,
> 
> > I'm guessing this may just be a plain Color BASIC machine, too.
> 
> Possibly, Color Basic only machines were offered well into the CoCo 2 
> version.
> 
> 
> 
> > In contrast, last month I picked up a rare albino CoCo 1 in box
> 
> > and in excellent condition.
> 
> Nice.
> 
> 
> 
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