[Coco] [CoCo] Atari and Amiga comparison

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Wed Mar 14 22:38:54 EDT 2007


On Wednesday 14 March 2007, 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?  :)

I think courtesy the 'Hot CoCo' magazine, CoCo won, and lets NOT start 
this battle back up, its been won, hands down.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
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