[Coco] CoCo Discrimination

[Fred Hicks]

My first time hearing that was my entry into IT networking 22 years ago.
My boss and I were discussing our first computers.  I mentioned my trs-80
coco2.  He smugly stated " A trash 80 eh?".

On Wed, Jul 17, 2019, 10:58 PM Gene Heskett <gheskett at shentel.net> wrote:

> On Wednesday 17 July 2019 17:46:53 Deny Wilson wrote:
>
> > You mean Apple elitism didn't start with the Mac?
>
> Long before the mac. I once tried to fix the email agent on a 17" mac
> which slightly resembled Thor on the Amiga. Gave up as my A2000 Amiga
> with a pp&s 68040 card and 64  megs of ram was easily 100x faster than
> that mac.  She, a school teacher also, was out in the pucker brush so
> far that a 2400 baud modem couldn't keep up with the line noise. She
> eventually got a pc, and that Just Works most of the time.  Semi-private
> ma & pa phone company out there. A call to the school where she taught,
> about 7 miles away, was dollar a minute long distance.
>
> > 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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>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
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