Cocos

From: Sam Ismail <dastar_at_crl.com>
Date: Mon Jun 23 11:40:41 1997

On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, e.tedeschi 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!
>
> 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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