Cocos

From: Sam Ismail <dastar_at_crl.com>
Date: Sun Jun 22 17:51:49 1997

On Sun, 22 Jun 1997, Scott Walde wrote:

> 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!

Sam
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