[Coco] The CoCo outside of the U.S.

[Boisy G. Pitre]

Belgium, the UK… how about Switzerland? France? West Germany? Spain? Italy? Portugal?

What about the Scandinavian countries?

On Apr 15, 2013, at 11:25 AM, camillus Blockx <camillus.b.58 at gmail.com> wrote:

> In Belgium we had Tandy stores.
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Boisy G. Pitre <boisy at tee-boy.com> wrote:
> 
>> Just to clarify: the CoCo 3 did NOT sell in Europe? That's interesting,
>> and I didn't know that.
>> 
>> Apparently the CoCo 1 did. I had verification that the CoCo 2 did as well.
>> 
>> There was a PAL version of the CoCo 3 in Australia, I believe. Perhaps
>> Nick, Bob and the rest of the gang down there can comment on it.
>> 
>> On Apr 15, 2013, at 10:44 AM, Phill Harvey-Smith <afra at ramoth.org.uk>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>>> On 2013-04-15, at 7:19 AM, "Boisy G. Pitre" <boisy at tee-boy.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> My understanding is that there were different subsidiaries of Tandy
>>>>> in different countries setup to handle Radio Shack store sales
>>>>> there. Canada had InterTan. Who did Australia have?  Europe?
>>> 
>>> I believe that InterTan did the UK, their UK offices where only 20ish
>> miles up the road in Birmingham :)
>>> 
>>>>> It also appears that international CoCo sales started with the CoCo
>>>>> 2, then carried on with the CoCo 3. I know that a PAL version of
>>>>> the CoCo 3… what about a CoCo 2? And were there any other languages
>>>>> that the BASIC manual was printed in besides English?
>>> 
>>> I have several PAL / 240V CoCo 1s (grey case), and also the CoCo 1
>> shaped machine with the white case (also PAL).
>>> 
>>> So I'd say that at least in the UK they where being sold in the CoCo 1
>> era.
>>> 
>>> Strangely I don't think they ever marketed the CoCo 3 here, though the
>> but do remember the CoCo 2 and the MC10 being on sale and considered rather
>> expensive at the time compared to Dragons and other UK computers.
>>> 
>>> Cheers.
>>> 
>>> Phill.
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