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- From: hinz@picard.med.ge.com (David Hinz Mfg 4-6987)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
- Subject: Re: COCO vs Z80
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.075435.15998@mr.med.ge.com>
- Date: 14 Sep 92 07:54:35 GMT
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- Greg Trotter (greg@gallifrey.ucs.uoknor.edu) wrote:
- : In article <18tk41INNeoq@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> trier@odin.ins.cwru.edu (Stephen C. Trier) writes:
- : >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."
-
- I think the last idea is correct. I do remember, however, that someone in
- a magazine (byte?) made a color board for the expansion interface for the
- model 1.
-
- Oh, and I think the CoCo was out with the model 2, which would make it before
-
- the model 3. In fact, I'm ALMOST positive.
-
- Those used a 60840, right? >:-)
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- Dave Hinz - Opinions expressed are mine, not my employer's. Obviously.
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