[Coco] [CoCo] Atari and Amiga comparison

[Torsten Dittel]

> 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