[Coco] cOcO name....

[Diego Barizo]

In an article dated 7/81, the magazine Popular Electronics called it the 
TRS-80C
(The article is in the pictures gallery at www.coco3.com)

Diego


Torsten Dittel wrote:

>> or TRS-80C (or 80C for short). We aren't going to start this up again, are

>> we?  :)

>>     

>

> Hey, wasn't that "TRS-80CC"? I hope so, that's why I registered the

> http://TRS-80.CC domain. Funny enough ".CC" is the TLD of the CoCos

> Islands... :-) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocos_%28Keeling%29_Islands

> ).

>

> Quoting from 'The "CoCo" Chronicals (Jul'80 - Jun'92)'

> (http://www.cs.unc.edu/~yakowenk/coco/text/history.html ):

>

> "The name, TRS-80, stands for Tandy Radio Shack, the 80 is a result of

> the Z-80 cpu in Tandy's first computer, the Model I. Because our machine

> uses a 6809 cpu, it should have been called either a TRS-68 or a TRS-09

> Color Computer but, what's in a name? Some, nicknamed it the TRS-80CC,

> other the TRS-80C, still others the 80C but it was Dave Lagerquist, in

> October's Chromasette, who first used the name COCO. This innocent

> enough action set of a "name calling" debate lasted for several months

> through-out the ever growing "CoCo" community."

>

> Looks like the "name calling" debate started back in 1984 ;-)

>

> Regards,

> Torsten

>

>