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From: sdyer@bbncca.ARPA (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: net.micro.6809
Subject: COCO X-pad price slashed
Message-ID: <129@bbncca.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 28-Sep-83 01:25:37 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 28 01:25:37 1983
Date-Received: Thu, 29-Sep-83 06:05:39 EDT
Organization: Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, Ma.
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I just received a flyer from Radio Shack today with two interesting
announcements:

1.) The price of their "X-PAD" graphics tablet has been cut from
    $350 to $200.  At this price it's beginning to look quite
    reasonable as an input device, especially to all those who
    snickered at the 64 X 64 resolution of the joystick port.
    It plugs into the expansion port, but with the new expansion
    chassis, both the X-pad and disk can be used simultaneouly.

2.) They have introduced a seven-color ink-jet printer with both
    serial and parallel interfaces for $700.  Looks a lot like
    the Canon, though I can't be sure.  They mention a COCO screen
    dump program is available, for those of us who are lazy.

I plan to visit my local dealer this weekend.  More details then.

/Steve Dyer
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