23 Jun
1997
23 Jun
'97
4:40 a.m.
On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, e.tedeschi wrote:
Ah! Yes, but very few men would have bought it...
Well, I don't necessarily want to be having a love affair with my "CoCo"
either. At least with a COC you could say "I play with my COC all day!
I love the feel of my COC under my fingertips".
Sam
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Computer Historian, Programmer, Musician, Philosopher, Athlete, Writer, Jackass
IIRC, there was some debate in the _really_ early
rainbow magazines.
(Or maybe it was in the 80 Micros. I have those, I'll have to check
later.) They were trying to decide a nickname for the Colour
Computer. I don't remember off hand what some of the other candidates
were, but there were some people who thought CoCo was too 'cute' or
non-business like or some such.
I've always held the nickname as being rather obnoxious. Calling it the
"COC" would have been more masculine and macho!