EWTILENI@pucc.UUCP (10/13/87)
For those of you who haven't heard, Tandy is planning an agressive marketing strategy for the CoCo 3 this coming Holiday season: 1. The CoCo 2 is being completely discontinued. It will be available only on a "where-is-as-is" basis for around $50. 2. The CoCo 3 will be priced at $129 (with 128k). 3. CM-8 prices will drop at least $50, maybe more. 4. TV ads and a large section in the catalogs. 5. There may be discounts on bundled disk-based systems. The Color Computer 3 should be a good seller this X-mas. Also, while Tandy officially denies it, there is a batch of new GIME chips coming over from Korea now, packed between the CoCo 3's. This, according to fairly reliable sources, fixes a number of minor bugs, and should help the computer run cooler. According to Tandy, they have merely increased the yield on GIME chips. In any case, it will not be available as a store item - only through National Parts as a repair item, and may cost quite a bit. (Could be close to $40.) Also in the news - a Hard Disk Controller for the CoCo 3 that will let it run an IBM XT hard drive. (Save $$ on hard disks!) The software formats the drive as an OS-9 disk, but lets you save DISK BASIC files to disks which are set up as files under parts of the OS-9 disk. This news from the latest Rainbowfest... - ERIC - \\\\\\\ \\ \\ | UUCP : (ihnp4,cmcl2)!psuvax1!pucc.bitnet!EWTILENI \\ \\ \\ | ARPA : ewtileni@pucc.Princeton.EDU \\ \\ \\ | BITNET: ewtileni@pucc.BITNET \\\\\\\ \\\\ | DELPHI: TILENIUS (also MCI MAIL) ColorVenture Software | PHONE : 609-734-0092
jlw@lznv.ATT.COM (j.l.wood) (10/14/87)
At the Princeton Rainbowfest this past weekend the going price for a 128K COCO3 was $115. The price for a CM-8 Analog RGB Monitor was $239. 512K upgrade kits (non-Tandy) were in the $30 to $40 range. I saw no really good hard disk intefaces there but Tandy had theirs for around $80. Didn't look like it could handle an ST506 drive. No second connector, so I don't know what type of drive was intended. Joe Wood lznv!jlw