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

[Bob Devries]

Hi Boisy,

The company which represented Tandy/Radio Shack in Australia was also called 
InterTan. Not sure if it was related to the Canadian one.

Grey case Cocos were sold in Australia. Not sure if there was a 4K version 
here, but certainly a 16K. There was a small daughter board attached to the 
motherboard to facilitate the PAL video generation. Sadly, I don't have one 
of those now.

There were also Coco2 units sold with the long (coco1 style) white case, and 
the "melted" keyboard. The Korean Coco2 in both A and B versions were sold 
too.

Regards, Bob Devries
Dalby, QLD, Australia

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Boisy G. Pitre" <boisy at tee-boy.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Monday, April 15, 2013 11:19 PM
Subject: [Coco] The CoCo outside of the U.S.


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.

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?

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?


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