[Coco] Interesting Old Coco History Article

[Arthur Flexser]

You might want to give your parents a break, depending on what year you are
talking about.  I think I paid over $600 for my 16K CoCo 1 around 1981, and it
didn't even include a disk system.  (Nor, I'm sure, does the $200 quote.)

Art


On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Hex Star wrote:

> On 8/1/07, Hex Star <hexstar at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Wait, less then $200 for a CoCo and my parents bought me that piece of ...
> > as a kid when I asked for a computer?? Grrr those ignorant... :P
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> To clarify what I meant is that the CoCo was very affordable and yet when I
> was young my parents instead bought me a toy computer?! The nerve! :P lol
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