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Nice book Frank, I'll read it :)

I saw the photos at the end and it's missing my CoCo2 clone back in the 1986:

http://wesley-camargo.zip.net/images/S4020055.JPG
http://www.cobit.xpg.com.br/micros/cp400II.htm

It was the Microdigital CP400-II with a full-stroke keyboard.

Felipe


On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Frank Swygert <farna at amc-mag.com> wrote:
> Boisy did a great job on the interview, I'm certainly glad he got to do it!
>
> I'm going to take exception to the statement "one of the things the Color
> Computer hasn't had up to this point is a good book about the entire history
> ll the way from the inception of the Color Computer until now."  I'm sorry
> Boisy -- you never looked at or read "Tandy's Little Wonder", which I
> published back in 1990 as the CoCo was fading out, and reissued in 2006 with
> minor revisions. It was self-published because no big publisher wanted to
> touch it -- wouldn't sell thousands of copies. It was advertised in the last
> issue or two of Rainbow, and on Delphi at the time, and I sold around 300
> copies over about an 18 month period. A few list members expressed an
> interest, so I revised it in 2006 (mainly took advertisers out) and put it
> up for sale. Only had maybe a half-dozen buy one. Around 2008 I put it up on
> the list archive as a free downloadable PDF file. Unfortunately most of the
> schematics didn't like being converted to PDF and are barely readable, and I
> no longer have originals to re-scan and put in the book, but those are
> generally available. Oh, and lest I forget, my work wasn't just "my work".
> Al Santos (I think I have the name right!) wrote the history part with just
> a little editing on my part. I did some interviews and put a lot of
> technical information together, as I wanted it to be as much a "survival
> guide" as a history -- a single source of as much CoCo information as
> possible/available at the time.
>
> With today's "print on demand" technology and a bit of resurgence on
> "retro-computing" you might be able to get a small publisher interested. But
> I have some advice -- make it more of a "coffee table" book with lots of
> photos and captions, but not so much text. You will likely have better luck
> with that sort of "remembrance" book than anything else. That's what the
> smaller make car market has found to be more salable.
>
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