[Coco] cOcO name....

[Joel Ewy]

I just have one thing to add to this profound discussion.  What little
sense it makes will likely be apparent only to those who grew up in a
certain place and time.

    I'M COO-COO FOR COCO (PUFFS)!!!

That is all.  :)

JCE

Diego Barizo wrote:
> 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
>>
>>   
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