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

[Arthur Flexser]

A shame the nameplate, the only part noticeably different from the
CoCo, is mostly covered up and/or illegible in the picture.

Art

On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Boisy G. Pitre <boisy at tee-boy.com> wrote:
> Thanks Torsten. That's a cool picture. We would like to use it but need to know who owns the rights so we can get permission to use it.
>
> On Apr 15, 2013, at 3:40 PM, Torsten Dittel <OS-9 at TRS-80.CC> wrote:
>
>> Boisy,
>>
>> your post reminds me that I promised some pictures long time ago, but my
>> collection is still boxed (family and job keep me busy...).
>>
>> However, let me summarize some things I remember:
>>
>> In Europe, we had "Tandy Computer Stores" (selling TRS-80 items, but not
>> everything found in the US-Catalogs) and Tandy stores (selling the "toys",
>> Realistic stuff etc.), at least in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands
>> (don't know for sure about France and the UK, but I assume as well).
>>
>> Any CoCo version has been sold as 240V 50Hz PAL version beside the CoCo3
>> (that was only available in Australia), that means silver CoCo1 (all
>> boards), CoCo1B (the big white case), CoCo2 and CoCo2B (TANDY logo,
>> lowercase VDG - however the latter were hard to find because Tandy closed
>> the Computer shops at the time they came out). All types of Multipak
>> Interfaces were available with 240V 50Hz and most CoCo1/2 ROM Paks,
>> joysticks, mice etc. as well as all types of disk controllers, floppy
>> drives and printers.
>>
>> I have seen all the manuals (Color BASIC, Extendend Color BASIC, Disk BASIC
>> etc.) in German, English, Dutch and French.
>>
>> PAL versions were different between the countries (see a previous post of
>> mine regarding that topic, I guess it's available at CoCopedia too).
>>
>> The PAL CoCos I've seen were made in the US (early models) and Korea (CoCo2
>> & 2B). Would have to look at the French models to see were they come from
>> (they were possibly made in France - they had a special RGB board and an
>> AZERTY keyboard. That's what happened with the RGB MC-10 as well because
>> foreign computers were banned from import as far as I know - at least they
>> couldn't be bought by public schools during an IT educational program run
>> by the French government in these times)
>>
>> Another Tandy licensed CoCo2 clone was called "Misedo 85" and made by
>> Montex Ivangrad (Berane) in Montenegro (former Yugoslavia):
>>
>> http://pc.pcpress.rs/pcmuzej/images/galerija/misedo85_big.jpg
>>
>> If you need proves for some of the information above, I might be able to
>> provide more internet findings and some pictures I already made (will not
>> promise again I can take new pictures in time...).
>>
>> Regards,
>> Torsten
>>
>>
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