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From: reyn@trsvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: article
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Date: 24 Jan 89 15:34:00 GMT
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Nf-From: trsvax.UUCP!reyn    Jan 24 09:34:00 1989



I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but Tandy's "other inferior" MS-DOS machines
aren't too seriously threatened by the CoCo.  Soon you'll be able to buy them
with DEC or Panasonic nameplates if you don't want to be seen in a Radio Shack.

As for "dumping" products ... to my great amazement we still sell Model 4s, and
the CoCo is still even advertised on T.V.  As long as it makes a profit, I
doubt if it will disappear.  Remember how much Steve Jobs wanted to get rid
of the Apple II?

Machines live or die based on the amount of good software available for them.
We all know that the IBM P.C. doesn't rank too highly on the basis of its
hardware.  So if you love the CoCo, write some great software :-)

I think OS-9 may extend the CoCo's life, especially since CD-ROM uses it.
But then again, by the time you buy all of the necessary peripherals, the
CoCo isn't so cheap anymore.  How much have you invested in your system?

I don't do CoCo software myself, but alot of the people who did Personal
Deskmate for the CoCo are still around, and they really enjoyed working
with it.  For you trivia buffs, Tandy's first graphically based DeskMate
was written for the CoCo, not the MS-DOS machines.

As usual the opinions expressed here aren't Tandy's fault.

					 John Reynolds