[Coco] delivers to your home computer

[Arthur Flexser]

BTW, what is the thing on the case above and behind the break key on
the videotex terminal?
Looks like a jack to plug in a power adapter, maybe?  Though
underneath it says something that, when you magnify the picture, looks
like it might be the word DATA.  Other, fuzzier pictures of the
Videotex terminal show it also.

Art

On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Bill Loguidice
<bill at armchairarcade.com> wrote:
> I don't think we'll ever really know what's in the ad, since from what they
> show it could represent either the VIDEOTEX or the CoCo 1, since that part
> is exactly the same on both. You would think they would have chosen the
> VIDEOTEX to be as generic as possible in showing a "computer" work with the
> system, but at the same time, we're talking 1981, and it's perfectly
> reasonable for the CoCo itself to have been handy.
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> On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 11:42 PM, Arthur Flexser <flexser at fiu.edu> wrote:
>
>> Not the Radio Shack TRS-80 Videotex one, the forerunner of the CoCo 1!
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:TRS-80_Videotex_terminal_retouched.jpg
>>
>> Art
>>
>> On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 11:37 PM, camillus Blockx
>> <camillus.b.58 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Coco 1 if you ask me, most videotext systems had a numberpad for dial in.
>> >
>> > On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Arthur Flexser <flexser at fiu.edu> wrote:
>> >
>> >> But is that a CoCo 1 or a Videotex terminal?
>> >>
>> >> Art
>> >>
>> >> On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Timothy Keith
>> >> <timothy.g.keith at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> > In todays Washington Post
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >>
>> http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ask-the-post/wp/2012/10/11/washington-post-now-delivers-to-your-home-computer/?hpid=z8
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