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

[Fedor Steeman]

Hi Thierry!

Yes, it's been a while. How are you? It seems I am only moving very slowly
in CoCo land, while my life is happening to me.

Agreed that C64 did have great graphics and sound capabilities, but what
good are those, if you cannot even access them easily from BASIC? I think
we all can agree on that the powerful Extended Color Basic really invited
to programming, because you could results so easily!

So where was it now you lived... Near Brussels or somewhere in Wallonia?

Cheers,
Fedor




On 16 April 2013 17:32, Thierry Mella <thierry.mella at skynet.be> wrote:

> Hi Fedor,
>
> Nice to hear from you ! How are you ?
>
>
>  I can confirm what Torsten and Thierry wrote. For me, I was growing up in
>> the Netherlands (Holland) and Radio Shack was represented here by the
>> "Tandy" stores by which it was known. I reckon the name "Tandy" worked
>> better than "Radio Shack" for people in this part of the world.
>>
>
> The same in Belgium.
>
>
>  But Commodore 64 was much more popular.
>>
>
> Always that bloody C64 !!!
>
>
>  At one time I used to be bullied by
>> a guy who had a C64. We both went to some electronics course  in the
>> evenings at school. He kept calling me "Tandy boy" and tried to be
>> intimidating, intercepting me as I was trying to bike home. Those were the
>> days...
>>
>
> The C64 was for the kids who said to theirs parents "I want to learn
> computer science" and, instead, plays games with it all the time.
>
> The Coco was for the neirdy guy who really wants to program.
>
> But I recognize that I was jealous of the plain screen text editor of the
> C64.
> In counterpart, the 6809 was much more powerful than the 6502 !
>
> Note that Dragon 32 was also popular. And there was a challenge to
> translate
> the Coco programs in Dragon programs in my school.
>
>
> Thierry
>
> --
> I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.
>
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