[Coco] delivers to your home computer

[John W. Linville]

Yup, that does look the same.  So, it could be either.

On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 01:51:28PM -0400, Louis Ciotti wrote:
> I believe the ealiest COCO 1's had the nameplate to the left side, the
> 4K variants.
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/9lfa4bf
> 
> 
> 
> 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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