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From: halkoD@batman.moravian.EDU (David Halko)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: Why read THIS group (was Re: Tandy for sale - Price Reduction)
Summary: Color Computer
Message-ID: <2479@batman.moravian.EDU>
Date: 8 Jan 91 05:42:22 GMT
References: <1170@sjfc.UUCP> <6521@vice.ICO.TEK.COM> <2547@svnet.UUCP> <1990Dec23.225025.26467@hellgate.utah.edu>
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In article <1990Dec23.225025.26467@hellgate.utah.edu>, smcgee%albion.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Scott Mcgee) writes:
> In article <2547@svnet.UUCP> harry@svnet.UUCP (Harry Skelton) writes:
> >
> >GADS! AN IBM! CLONE!?! "Quick Marge, take the kids and head for the hills!" 8-)
> >Bob: I just read this group for T100/200/102/WP2 info... (been looking for one
> >for a while but most are as expensive as the new on-the-shelf models.)
> 
> Actually, there are a lot of others like you (well, sort of) here. A lot of
> us watch this group for info on the Color Computer. Many of us feel the same
> way about MSDOS. Now that Tandy has officially orphanned the Color Computer I
> suppose we are bound to slowly dwindle away leaving this group to the clones
> and laptops but that's life. 
> 
> FOOTNOTE: Until they decided to cancel the Color Computer, it was the oldest
> computer manufactured. 
> 
> Scott
> 
>    Writing programs in assembler is like digging post holes with a teaspoon:
>    it takes a long time, but you have complete control over all the dirt.
>    ------------------------------------------#------------------------------
>    smcgee%albion@cs.utah.edu (Scott McGee)   #   Did _I_ say _That_? Really?

Well,

I have a feeling that there will be people reading this news group for info on
the Color COmputer for many years to come... I give it another 3 years AT LEAST

I know I will be!

<smile>

(especially since we now have the ability to be nodes in the UUCP world... and we
get news delivered to our homes! ha ha ha... some of my friends do, anyway....)

David J. Halko
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