[Coco] Blue CoCo...

[Neil Morrison]

No. The Videotex version was contemporary with the Coco, not a
predecessor. It vanished soon after.

NM

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bruce Calkins" <bcalkins at disaster-relief.net>



> It is a predecessor to the CoCo.  Basically a early home computer

terminal.

> It had a self contained 300 baud (or was that 150?) modem and early

Vidtex

> type software.  Basic and other I/O was not available or

installable.  The

> units were not cost effective to convert to CoCos as to much was

simply not

> there.  (I'm recalling a discussion in a CoCo magazine.)  It does

have some

> collectable value, to the right collector.  The blue ones may have

been from

> the pilot program in the late '70's.  Or is this one a repaint job?

I doubt

> many were sold after the CoCo was on the store shelves.