Radio Shack Tandy CoCo 3 Commercial: Merry Christmas HQ

CoCo 2 was lagging behind. On July 30 1986 Tandy announced the Color Computer 3 with 128K up to 512, to compete with Commodore Amiga and Atari ST. Black keyboard periphery and cartridge door changed to grey. Arrow keys were put in diamond configuration, and Ctrl, Alt, F1 and F2 keys were added. Sold in Radio Shack Stores & Tandy Computer Centers for $219.95. Days later they could be bought from Computer Plus at the Princeton Rainbow Fest (October 17-19) for $169.

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• computer
• 80s
• commercial
• comercial
• radio
• shack
• tandy
• color
• coco
• 3

[nahu090yt]

AJAJAJAJA, si el Gordo tiene q cargar esa maquina, se quiebra la espalda XD

[nahu090yt]

the CoCo... Color Computer ;)

CoCo 2 was lagging behind. On July 30 1986 Tandy announced the Color Computer 3 with 128K up to 512, to compete with Commodore Amiga and Atari ST. Black keyboard periphery and cartridge door changed to grey. Arrow keys were put in diamond configuration, and Ctrl, Alt, F1 and F2 keys were added. Sold in Radio Shack Stores & Tandy Computer Centers for $219.95. Days later they could be bought from Computer Plus at the Princeton Rainbow Fest (October 17-19) for $169.

[wordiks76]

Kto z PClab? ;D

[cercidas]

The CoCo 3 was miles ahead of the CoCo 1 and CoCo 2 by miles, but I still miss my CoCo 1. Sigh. In any case, the CoCo 3 with 512 KB (aha, not MB) and loaded with OS9 could literally kick bottoms.

I learned ASM via the CoCo 2 and CoCo 3. What I've found is that programming styles have changed significantly since then. Back then: if the program runs slow, re-edit the source code and compress some or all of the routines. Now, if the program runs slow? Eh, just speed up the processor, who cares?

[boob72]

I had a CoCo2 that I bought in 1983 for $200.00 Australian. If I knew then, what I know now, I would have bought a commodore 64 instead.

[Wazlor]

@jammyhires THE RAINBOW MAGAZINE was way better than Hot CoCo. But when I started it steamed great to have both.

[CoolConejo]

hi i am 11... and what is this?

[bolver25]

Jimmy even let's his old man use it for porn!

[guyvf]

adjusted for inflation, that's $250 - close to a modern netbook.

[jammyhires]

I had a 16k color computer and I use to bye that magazine hot coco