[Coco] I'll assume y'all are aware of this Commodore brouhaha with Chris Simpson.

[Allen Huffman]

For those who don’t recognize the name, this is the Retro Recipies YouTube channel. We discussed it in the context of CoCo when he did a video on “light brighting” some years ago, showing how leaving plastic out in the sun whitened it without any chemicals. At the time, I did a test with a multipak case and it made a BIG difference.

I never saw a follow-up from him on this, and wondered what the consensus to this technique was.

Now, about this:

> On Jul 4, 2025, at 6:50 AM, Juan Castro via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
> 
> But just in case not:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lN8r4LRcOXc
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke-Ao-CpI7E
> 
> I wonder if a similar thing could be done with the TRS-80? (CoCo and
> Z80?) Not buying up the entire company and all the trademarks, of
> course, but somehow coalesce all the Tandy computer-specific stuff and
> start releasing things in a similar, official fashion?
> 
> Too vague, I know, but I couldn't help think about that. Thoughts welcome.

I think no one knows who owns the copyrights at this point. As Radio Shack flipped over the years, folks have written them and gotten back “we don’t know anything about that” type responses.

Commodore’s owners kept (most of) the trademarks active, it seems.  But, I think this would be a worth mission to find out who owns them. The current Radio Shack does not — they seem to have only the name/logo of Radio Shack.

So who has the rest?

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