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- From: greg@gallifrey.ucs.uoknor.edu (Greg Trotter)
- Subject: Re: COCO vs Z80
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- Message-ID: <1992Sep12.205121.9672@constellation.ecn.uoknor.edu>
- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 20:51:21 GMT
- References: <m5PyqB1w163w@coyote.datalog.com> <18tk41INNeoq@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
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- In article <18tk41INNeoq@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> trier@odin.ins.cwru.edu (Stephen C. Trier) writes:
- >
- >I've heard the same tale from many places. It seems to originate with
- >people who don't realize that "TRS-80" does not always mean "Model I". :-)
- >
- >It is possible that Tandy built prototypes of Z80-based color machines
- >before developing the CoCo, and this might also cause the stories of
- >the Z80 CoCo.
-
- I find it much more likely that stories like this were promulgated by
- ignorant salesman, trying to look good. A salesman remembered that the Z80
- was in the I, II, and III (the III *did* come out before coco, right? I
- can't remember) and said "And it runs on the Z80!"
-
- Or:
-
- "Mr. Salesman, does this computer utilize the Z/80 CPU?"
- "Uh... Yeah, that's right."
-
- - greg
-
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- Greg Trotter
- Norman, Oklahoma
- Internet: greg@gallifrey.ucs.uoknor.edu
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