[Coco] more 1 bit madness

[Nick Marentes]

Steve <6809er at ...> writes:

> 
> Tandy did put a 3-voice sound chip in CoCo,  the never released Deluxe 
> Color Computer that would sold for twice the price of the CoCo 2.
> 
> But that's the problem.  Adding stuff like that would add to the cost of 
> the computer.  The only reason we got the CoCo 3 was its build cost 
> lower that the CoCo 2.


This is definetely the case. 

What may have also swayed them away from providing sound is that Tandy sold
a sound and speech cartridge. They probably thought "There's your sound
chip!" and "we can profit by selling that as an add-on expansion" (along
with a multi-pak!).

With Tandy it was always about money. Keep costs down and profits up.

Nick