[Coco] [CoCo] Atari and Amiga comparison

[Frank Pittel]

On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 09:45:22PM +0000, Mannequin* wrote:
> L. Curtis Boyle wrote:
> > On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 14:41:11 -0600, Mannequin*
> > <mannslists at invigorated.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> I was thinking about this last year (?) I think, when Mary did the
> >> Lonnie Falk issue of CoCoNutz. Somewhere he emphasized the spelling of
> >> 'CoCo'... This is where I 'corrected' my usage of 'coco' or 'Coco' to
> >> 'CoCo'. Back to what I was wondering though, I was wondering if not the
> >> Lonnie Falk himself had perpetrated this spelling through the forum that
> >> he owned named 'Rainbow Magazine'?
> >>
> >> Anyone care to comment about my thought's accuracy? Or at least tell me
> >> that the spelling of the term 'CoCo' was made concrete before the
> >> 'Rainbow years'?
> >>
> >> -M.
> >    I remember in 1982 in the letters page of both Rainbow and Color
> > Compuer News, that is was an ongoing battle of whether to call it a Coco
> > or TRS-80C (or 80C for short). We aren't going to start this up again,
> > are we?  :)
> 
> No, not a name war (although, I'd find that interesting to watch)...
> just a spelling war. ;) I realize that the 'CoCo' spelling came from the
> capitalization of the 'Color Computer' name. But I was just wondering
> where being pedantic about came from. :)
> 
> Heh. A war about the name is long overdue, it being over 20 years since
> it last happened and all. Yeah, J/K. :)

The best part about a name war is that after it was over we would all
still call it a CoCo. :-)