[Coco] CoCo Discrimination

[Terry Steege]

I also heard that over the years, and because I know the truth it doesn't
bother me, especially since the Trash-80 podcast is so awesome and Pete is
a die-hard TRS-80s fan through and through.  I just tell people, "I know,
right?  THEY WERE AND STILL ARE AWESOME MACHINES!!"

On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 4:44 PM Salvador Garcia via Coco <
coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:

>  Yeah, I recall that nickname back in '78(ish). I never liked it. So, the
> TRS-80 wan't a super computer. It was still a feat on engineering to bring
> computing to people who couldn't pay $2000 for a computer. Apples in that
> day weren't much better or much worse. Salvador
>     On Wednesday, July 17, 2019, 04:58:28 PM CDT, Charles Allison via Coco
> <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
>
>  I loved my CoCo and still do but that was the nickname at my High School
> when I was a kid.
>
> Chuck Allison
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Jul 17, 2019, at 16:46, Deny Wilson <deny.wilson at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > You mean Apple elitism didn't start with the Mac?
> >
> >> On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 3:41 PM Mark Anderson <rammdesign at msn.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> I have to say I'm shocked at the level of discrimination I receive when
> I
> >> wear my TRS-80 color computer Radio Shack black T-shirt in public, most
> >> notable, in bookstores.
> >>
> >> In the past six months, at two different bookstores, I've had an older
> >> couple and an older gentlemen both scoff and say "Trash 80" out loud at
> me
> >> with a smirk on two separate occasions.
> >>
> >> The first time, I let it go, but this last time I said "Don't say that
> >> sir.". He confronted me and said he had an Apple back in the day. I told
> >> him I was published in the Rainbow magazine at age 10 and he asked me
> if I
> >> still had a TRS-80. I said I had several.
> >>
> >> Just wanted to know if anyone else here has had similar stories....
> >>
> >> Mark
> >>
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