[Coco] delivers to your home computer

[Louis Ciotti]

I believe the ealiest COCO 1's had the nameplate to the left side, the
4K variants.

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On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 10:55 AM, John W. Linville
<linville at tuxdriver.com> wrote:
> 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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