[Coco] 1702 monitor

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 21 May 2018 17:01:04 Neil Cherry wrote:

> On 05/19/2018 08:48 AM, Wayne Campbell wrote:
> > Where did the notion of commodore being the enemy come from? I never
> > heard of such a thing.
>
> Sorry was busy at VCF in Wall NJ this weekend. :-D There as at least
> one CoCo. There were a lot of other's also including a French MC-10
> (sp?)
>
> Now it's meant as a joke but when I as younger the flame wars were
> Apple, Commodore and Atari. There weren't a lot of others at the time
> (in my area) but to be honest the 'my computer is better computer'
> flame-wars were ridiculous
>
> And it was quite common among those who didn't just use a TV to get
> one of the Commodore monitors. A bit of black tape save you're
> allegiance.  ;-) Which was, rather ridiculous as Commodore didn't
> even make the monitor. I think my 1802 is a Magnavox or an Amdek.
>
Probably Magnavox, aka NAP, North American Phillips at the time.

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