[Coco] delivers to your home computer

[John W. Linville]

On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 11:22:02AM -0400, Bill Loguidice wrote:
> I don't think we'll ever really know what's in the ad, since from what they
> show it could represent either the VIDEOTEX or the CoCo 1, since that part
> is exactly the same on both. You would think they would have chosen the
> VIDEOTEX to be as generic as possible in showing a "computer" work with the
> system, but at the same time, we're talking 1981, and it's perfectly
> reasonable for the CoCo itself to have been handy.

The ad picture is a bit grainy, but if you blow it up it looks like
there is a space for a nameplate just above the keyboard.  It looks
like the nameplate itself is missing, but the location is clearly
offset towards the left side.  This matches the placement of the
nameplate on my videotex terminal, while my CoCo 1 has it's name
plate more centered.

So, FWIW...my money is on that being a videotex terminal in the ad.

John
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