[Coco] The CoCo outside of the U.S.

[Glen VanDenBiggelaar]

Curtis is right, other than the French/English manuals and boxes (Law here in Canada), I believe it was very close to what Tandy did in the USA. Inter-Tan was (at that time) just a shell corp, so Tandy could legally operate in Canada. From what I understand, there basically was no real difference if you walked in to a Radio Shack in Texas or Toronto. You could get the exact same "stuff" and I even believe the Catalogs were the same except for the price difference. The catalogs were a bit different though, I don't remember seeing "French" at all in them in Western Canada.
On the later CoCo2/3 we had 2 serial number stickers on the botom (French /English again). I did notice a bit of differences in some of the products though, which I had documented at one time on the CoCo lounge. The "single" white disk drives had different "holes" stamped in for ventilation -one being square "holes" and one being long Vertical slits- Probably from different factories manufacturing them at the time, not really a country/regional thing though.
Also the Canadian CoCo 3 had that "screen" glued under the Vent slots, - I have pictures posted of that on the facebook group. Because it is just a nylon Screen, that you would find in any screen door or window, I really do believe it has nothing to do with RF shielding.
-Glen
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On 2013-04-15, at 7:19 AM, "Boisy G. Pitre" <boisy at tee-boy.com> wrote: 


> I want to tap into the collective knowledge of the list here, especially those outside of the U.S. who are members and who owned Color Computers back in the day. 

> 

> In the upcoming book, Bill and I want to touch a bit on CoCo as it existed outside of the U.S. There's the issue of clones, which is a different topic and not what I'm looking to discuss at the moment. 

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> My understanding is that there were different subsidiaries of Tandy in different countries setup to handle Radio Shack store sales there. Canada had InterTan. Who did Australia have? Europe? 

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> It also appears that international CoCo sales started with the CoCo 2, then carried on with the CoCo 3. I know that a PAL version of the CoCo 3… what about a CoCo 2? And were there any other languages that the BASIC manual was printed in besides English?