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

[Daniel Campos]

Today, TVs that are sold in South America (at least on Brazil, Argentina 
and Uruguay) are Tri-norm and have PAL-M, PAL-N and NTSC standards by 
default. But on the time there were no TVs with that feature. Most TVs 
in Brazil, on that time, have to be transcoded for NTSC to use with 
imported VCRs, Computers, etc.

Daniel

Em 15/04/2013 15:59, Arthur Flexser escreveu:
> What was involved in making the TV "bi-norm" (PAL/NTSC)?  I would have
> thought it would be sufficiently complicated as to preclude them
> throwing it in for free when you bought a computer.
>
> Art
>
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Diego Barizo <diegoba at adinet.com.uy> wrote:
>> In Uruguay, the situation was a bit peculiar.
>> Radio Shack computers were sold by "Sycom", a local company created just for that purpose.
>> I learned Logo and Basic there.
>> They had the full computer range. I remember seeing Model I, II, III 12, 16, and some Tandy 1000. Also. Some pockets PC-1,2 and 4.
>> And Cocos 1,2 and 3. Those were stock NTSC models, and since local TV is Pal, they would, free of charge, make your TV bi-norm when you bought a Coco.
>> I have great memories of the small team that worked there, and I was always trying to find an excuse to hang around after school.
>>
>> Sent from my Sony Ericsson Xperia mini pro
>>
>> "Boisy G. Pitre" <boisy at tee-boy.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I want to tap into the collective knowledge of the list here, especially those outside of the U.S. who are members and who owned Color Computers back in the day.
>>>
>>> In the upcoming book, Bill and I want to touch a bit on CoCo as it existed outside of the U.S. There's the issue of clones, which is a different topic and not what I'm looking to discuss at the moment.
>>>
>>> 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?
>>>
>>> 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?
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