[Coco] cOcO name....

[David Roper]

I think I speak for us all(-ish) when I say..

"Riiiiiigghhtt........."

Kind Regards,

David Roper

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Joel Ewy wrote:
> 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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