[Coco] CoCo Discrimination

[Salvador Garcia]

 Someone just posted on Facebook (can't remember which group) that he and someone were walking in the woods and found an abandoned school bus. They pried the door open and found a hoard of Apple II's and monitors. They estimate that that bus has been there for at least 30 years (I don't recall the exact number that he mentioned). He has already restored a bunch of them and is selling them off. That was a treasure found! Salvador



    On Wednesday, July 17, 2019, 05:47:24 PM CDT, Charles Allison via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:  
 
 It is the computer I learned on from the beginning. TRS-80 model 1,3,4 and coco 1,2,3. had one the first time from 1986 through 1995. Then recently bought a new to me COCO2 and love it still. Trash to treasure is right!

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> On Jul 17, 2019, at 17:43, Salvador Garcia via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:
> 
> Yeah, I recall that nickname back in '78(ish). I never liked it. So, the TRS-80 wan't a super computer. It was still a feat on engineering to bring computing to people who couldn't pay $2000 for a computer. Apples in that day weren't much better or much worse. Salvador
>    On Wednesday, July 17, 2019, 04:58:28 PM CDT, Charles Allison via Coco <coco at maltedmedia.com> wrote:  
> 
> I loved my CoCo and still do but that was the nickname at my High School when I was a kid.
> 
> Chuck Allison
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
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>> On Jul 17, 2019, at 16:46, Deny Wilson <deny.wilson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> You mean Apple elitism didn't start with the Mac?
>> 
>>> On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 3:41 PM Mark Anderson <rammdesign at msn.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I have to say I'm shocked at the level of discrimination I receive when I
>>> wear my TRS-80 color computer Radio Shack black T-shirt in public, most
>>> notable, in bookstores.
>>> 
>>> In the past six months, at two different bookstores, I've had an older
>>> couple and an older gentlemen both scoff and say "Trash 80" out loud at me
>>> with a smirk on two separate occasions.
>>> 
>>> The first time, I let it go, but this last time I said "Don't say that
>>> sir.". He confronted me and said he had an Apple back in the day. I told
>>> him I was published in the Rainbow magazine at age 10 and he asked me if I
>>> still had a TRS-80. I said I had several.
>>> 
>>> Just wanted to know if anyone else here has had similar stories....
>>> 
>>> Mark
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