Hot CoCo -> 80 Micro re-merge...

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3 total messages Started by Rogelio Perea Sun, 05 Jun 2005 22:26

#153

Author: Rogelio Perea
Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2005 22:26

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Was reading through a couple of recently aquired Hot CoCo magazines, and on 
the February 1986 issue the publisher makes a remark on the final page about 
*this* being the last stand alone issue of Hot CoCo, and that starting March 
1986 suscribers would start to get 80 Micro in which Hot CoCo would have a 
"presence" as a section in the parent magazine.

For how long did 80 Micro sustain a separate CoCo section after the 
re-merge?. I say re-merge because Hot CoCo initially spun-off 80 Micro when 
the CoCo material started to get more demand.

My interest lies on knowing which 80 Micro issues after March 1986 would be 
nice to get (if possible) and have something CoCo related within...



-=[ Rogelio ]=-

Re: Hot CoCo -> 80 Micro re-merge...

#154

Author: NSM
Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2005 23:12

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"Rogelio Perea" <os9dude@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:__Koe.8433$So7.2339@fe10.lga...
> Was reading through a couple of recently aquired Hot CoCo magazines, and
on
> the February 1986 issue the publisher makes a remark on the final page
about
> *this* being the last stand alone issue of Hot CoCo, and that starting
March
> 1986 suscribers would start to get 80 Micro in which Hot CoCo would have a
> "presence" as a section in the parent magazine.
>
> For how long did 80 Micro sustain a separate CoCo section after the
> re-merge?. I say re-merge because Hot CoCo initially spun-off 80 Micro
when
> the CoCo material started to get more demand.
>
> My interest lies on knowing which 80 Micro issues after March 1986 would
be
> nice to get (if possible) and have something CoCo related within...

Did you look on http://www.trs-80.com/ ??

He has

1986: 2/86, 3/86, 4/86
1987: 4/87, 8/87
1988: 3/88

He would like the rest!

Neil

Re: Hot CoCo -> 80 Micro re-merge...

#155

Author: Rogelio Perea
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2005 22:23

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Neil wrote:

> Did you look on http://www.trs-80.com/ ??
>
> He has
>
> 1986: 2/86, 3/86, 4/86
> 1987: 4/87, 8/87
> 1988: 3/88
>
> He would like the rest!

Am in the process of looking into Ira's archive. In fact I got a pretty 
detailed group of responses on the Maltedmedia list about the longevity of 
the merged Hot CoCo -> 80 Micro venture.

I was mostly curious on the merger because as with all things, Hot CoCo came 
out of 80 Micro in the beginning, and then as things turned sour the powers 
that be decided to merge back Hot CoCo as a mere section in 80 Micro... all 
with the "just the right thing to do now" and "so very appropiate" with a 
couple of "we will be able to serve you better" editorial notes in Hot CoCo 
as they announced the merger. Images of Lonnie Falk's PRINT#-2, editorials 
came to mind when The Rainbow was turned into a newspaper print format...

I think that the Commodore's Compute magazine suffered the same fate. After 
being a stand alone specializing in the C=64 line, it was merged back as a 
section of an upper level magazine, that section relegated to mere software 
reviews and no more nitty-gritty articles, which after all seems to be the 
natural "way to go" with technology :-(

Thanks Neil!

-=[ Rogelio ]=-

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