[Coco] Re: [Color Computer] end of discussion!

[Jim Cox]

I'm was planning to just ride this storm out and had hoped 
that either the list owner or other moderator of the Yahoo 
list would step in, but they haven't so, here I go.

Could we please drop this topic and get back to discussing 
the CoCo.  Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but this 
discussion has gone on long enough and IMHO, is not in the 
best interest of the list or the general CoCo community.

Thanks and happy CoCo'ing.

-Jim Cox
Assistant Moderator ColorComputer at yahoogroups.com

PS: Neil, if you feel I am wrong here, please contact me 
off-line.

On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 13:53:21 -0500
  Keith Krehbiel <redsilo at pldi.net> wrote:
> 
> James the Animal Tamer wrote:
>> 
>>>I am not saying that Microsoft has better products.
>> 
>> 
>> Mm, now I have to cleverly say something that's 
>>on-topic.
>> Okay...
>> 
>> Development partly drove the market, and partly 
>>vice-versa.  Gates & Co 
>> supplied the BASIC computer language for a lot of 
>>microcomputers, 
>> because microcomputer manufacturers were asking for it.
>> 
>> Q: When people stopped asking for BASIC, Microsoft went 
>>into another 
>> area of software, eh?  Or, did Microsoft go into another 
>>area of 
>> business, and thus be less available for making BASIC?  
>> A: a bit of both
>> 
>> Q: Did Microsoft make products that would ensure a 
>>greater future 
>> income?
>> A: You bet.
>> 
>> Now, applying this to the CoCo!
>> 
>> Tandy made CoCo1, an original computer.
>> There was enough consumer demand so that making the CoCo 
>>II made sense 
>> (just think, cutting off that aftermarket keyboard 
>>add-on at its 
>> knees!).
>> 
>> But apparently there wasn't enough demand for the CoCo 
>>II to justify 
>> making a good 68000 successor.  I don't know why they 
>>made the CoCo 
>> III -- there must have been someone who thought it'd be 
>>more profitable 
>> than not making it.
> 
> Hopefully this will squeak by as on topic.  I seem to 
>recall that there 
> was someone in the Tandy organization that championed 
>the coco long 
> after most of the company had given up on it.  I do not 
>remember his 
> name.  Apparantly he had enough whiskers and rank to be 
>taken seriously.
> I always suspected that the final demise of the coco 
>happened after he 
> retired but that is only a supposition.  I never heard 
>anything to that 
> effect.
>> 
>> Now, you know that the market is also strange, and the 
>>best product 
>> doesn't always sell the best.
> 
> Even a good product can benefit from aggressive 
>marketing - something 
> the coco really never had.
> 
>> 
>> So far as the CoCo is concerned, it's largely moot now. 
>> Pretty much 
>> the only market for "successors" to the CoCo is the 
>>existing userbase 
>> and nostalgia freaks like me.
>> 
>> 
> Thanks for your kind indulgence
> kk
>> 
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