[Coco] Deskmate 3 article link

[Mark McDougall]

On 15/09/2010 4:22 PM, Little John wrote:


> Wasn't the SAM and VDG developed as part of some sort of Farmers

> Agricultural Terminal (one of which just sold on eBay rather cheaply)? Then

> they decided, hey, this could also be used to make a cheap color computer?

> I'm only asking because I seem to remember reading something to that effect

> ages ago - but as memories go, mine seems relatively fallible...


The entire Coco design was lifted almost verbatim from a Motorola datasheet. 
It's basically a Motorola design - Tandy did little more than add a plastic 
case and a Tandy logo...

Regards,

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