[Coco] Black CoCo 3 - WAS--> Another *WOW* auction at Ebay

[jdaggett at gate.net]

On 5 Jan 2009 at 21:03, Allen Huffman wrote:

> On Jan 5, 2009, at 8:16 AM, Rogelio Perea wrote:
> > Yup... supposedly there was a prototype CoCo 3 within a black molded
> >  case.
> 
> Well, interestingly enough, the story I "told" at the booth -- which 
> some folks took with a grain of salt, and others seemed to believe -- 
> was something like this:
> 
> "You know tho Radio Shack's stereo equipment used to all be silver? 
> Then they slowly moved them all to black? Same thing was going on with
>  the computers."
> 
> Plausible.
> 
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Quite plausible. If the case is Lexan or a Polycarbonate plastic changing 
from white to black is just changign the dye color. There would be no extra 
charge for that. Polycarbonates are naturally clear. So it would be an 
extremely easy move to change colors. 

james