[Coco][Color Computer] Complete Commodore 64 home computer ona single chip

[Neil Morrison]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Arthur Flexser" <flexser at fiu.edu>

> I think the statement is also true of the company.  From their marketing
> strategy, it is clear that they saw the CoCo as something to be promoted
> as a kid's computer, something that would make a nice Christmas gift for a
> child to play Rompack games on.  Look at Tandy's old Rainbow ads.

The company would force feed Coco stock to the Computer Centres even though
the sales people asked them to stop. That's why they hid it out back - so it
still showed up on the inventory. What salesman wants to spend an hour
explaining D of D to some kid when he can sell a $10,000 business system?

Same with the CompuServe sign up kits. Unless you bought a system the
salesman made about a $1 on each one - and spent half an hour trying to sell
it.

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