[Coco] Tandy Electronics??!!

[David Linsley]

I should have noted my question with "ignoring the Dragon" since I'm quite intimate with those :) I wrote "A Slayed Beast" 21 years ago now after some members of this list were interested in learning more about the Dragon history. How time has flown!

There was also a few Fujitsu machines in Japan, but MSX really took hold there.

The Thompson I wondered about as I recall reading that Pam D'Arcy (a noted Dragon software author) was paid to port some Coco and Dragon software. With the French being quite insular/heavily patriotic, maybe those systems sold relatively well? However after having a letter published in Dragon User I did receive a pen pal request from someone in Paris with a Dragon 64. 

-----Original Message-----
From: "Bill Loguidice" <bill at armchairarcade.com>
Sent: ‎1/‎2/‎2015 9:46 AM
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Subject: Re: [Coco] Tandy Electronics??!!

"Quite popular" is relative, of course. In the UK, you pretty much had ZX
Spectrum, Commodore 64, BBC Micro, and Amstrad machines with the vast
majority of the support, prior to the rise of the Atari ST and Amiga.
Everything else was strictly second or third tier items. Certainly the
Dragon 32/64 did better than the Tano Dragon did here in the US, but that's
not much of an accomplishment.

-Bill

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On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 11:53 AM, Dave G4UGM <dave.g4ugm at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think the Dragons were quite popular in the UK. They pop up pretty often
> on E-Bay UK, and I own one along with a CoCo II both of which I bought on
> E-Bay and an Atari STE I have owned from new.
>
> My first 6809 was a NewBear 6809 system on a single card. I can't find any
> reference to it on the web and I gave mine away a long time ago so no
> pictures.  it used the same BUS and form factor as the 7768 .
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newbear_77-68
>
> I think after that for a while I had a Fortronic 6809 system like this:-
>
> http://nosher.net/archives/computers/prac_comp_1981-03_026
>
> I didn't pay anything for it though. Apparently the one I had was produced
> for a Post Office counter automation project, and I got it as the project
> was cancelled. I had it for about three years until it was "recovered" by
> Fortronic as the Post Office wanted to restart the project, new 6809's were
> longer available and the needed every one they could find while the
> re-wrote the software for a current micro....
>
> After that I had an Acorn Computers 6809 Eurocard system.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_Eurocard_systems
>
> not sure how many were made, but not many.....
>
> Dave
> G4UGM
>

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