[Coco] colorburst

[Bill Pierce]

Robert, did you look at the price of the unit? It's no wonder they never sold.
I saw one in the very first Rainbow I bought and had no idea at the time what they were. Then after I learned a few things about my Coco and begin to have a desire for an MPI, I remembered seeing the ColorBurt and went through my Rainbows and found it. I looked at the price, then closed the magazine.
At $79, the Tandy MPI was less than 1/10th the price compared to the ColorBurst's $999. Yes, it has a lot of cool stuff, but at that time, I just wanted an MPI :-)
The Color Burst appeared in at least 2 Rainbows (I never owned the one you referenced), so it must have been a real product.

 

 


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-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Hermanek <rhermanek at centurytel.net>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Fri, Jul 3, 2015 12:50 pm
Subject: Re: [Coco] colorburst


I'm guessing, based on the radio silence here on the list, and the fact 
that
google comes up with nothing good, that this thing never existed.  
Which is a
little disconcerting... I'm used to con's in the internet 
age, but was the half
page ad in the rainbow a fake? Or at best maybe a 
prototype that never got any
orders...

On 7/2/2015 1:07 PM, Michael Brant wrote:
> I just looked at the ad,
that looks pretty interesting.  Curiosity is now
> piqued.
>
> On Thu, Jul 2,
2015 at 12:24 AM, Robert Hermanek <rhermanek at centurytel.net>
> wrote:
>
>> I was
just paging through Rainbow July '85 and saw an ad for "Colorburst"
>> which
looks like a six slot MPI with apparently a built in 1 meg expansion
>> for
$999.
>>
>> Was this ever a real thing?  Anyone know how the "memory
expansion"
>> functioned?  Anybody got one?
>>


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