Nov. 2nd, 2023

krpalmer: Imagination sold and serviced here: Infocom (infocom)
Next to the original TRS-80 Micro Computer System with its black and white monitor (converted from surplus RCA TVs, as the folklore has it), the Radio Shack Color Computer’s name was justified. Next to just about any other color-capable small computer from the early 1980s I’m aware of (save those that also used its Motorola MC6847 VDG chip for graphics), the “CoCo” can seem kind of pallid. Maybe that sense strengthened as later programs for it concentrated on its highest-resolution mode with its “artifact red” and “artifact blue” (regardless of certain further tricks pulled off with them).
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