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Article #755Re: New CoCo-III's Market Niche
From: Michael Robinson
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 1986 00:40
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 1986 00:40
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In article <1040@ihwpt.UUCP> knudsen@ihwpt.UUCP (mike knudsen) writes:
>Radio Shack marketing has found a nice gap in the market
>and filled it pretty well -- the space between the 8-bit
>home "toys" and the 68K machines (which MS-DOS users would
>call "toys" too).
Actually, they are quite justified in calling them toys. Just as much so as
someone who owns a Pinto is justified in calling both go-carts and
Porsche 944 Turbo's toys (admittedly, 944's usually don't cost less than
Pinto's).
If it's fun, it's a toy. MS-DOS machines are not fun.
>Mike J Knudsen __ ...ihnp4!ihwpt!knudsen
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!caip!topaz!ll-xn!nike!ucbcad!ucbvax!shadow.Berkeley.EDU!robinson From: robinson@shadow.Berkeley.EDU (Michael Robinson) Newsgroups: net.micro.6809,net.micro,net.micro.atari16,net.micro.amiga Subject: Re: New CoCo-III's Market Niche Message-ID: <15144@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: Wed, 6-Aug-86 20:40:13 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.15144 Posted: Wed Aug 6 20:40:13 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Aug-86 02:35:35 EDT References: <1040@ihwpt.UUCP> Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: robinson@shadow.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Michael Robinson) Distribution: net Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 26