Cocos

From: e.tedeschi <e.tedeschi_at_ndirect.co.uk>
Date: Mon Jun 23 02:09:34 1997

Sam Ismail wrote:
>
> 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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Ah! Yes, but very few men would have bought it...

enrico
Received on Mon Jun 23 1997 - 02:09:34 BST