{"id":405,"date":"2007-12-17T11:04:37","date_gmt":"2007-12-17T16:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=405"},"modified":"2012-08-08T13:42:22","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T18:42:22","slug":"retro-scan-of-the-week-have-a-little-hot-coco-this-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/405\/retro-scan-of-the-week-have-a-little-hot-coco-this-christmas","title":{"rendered":"<span id=\"retro_color\">[ Retro Scan of the Week ]<\/span> Hot CoCo (2) for Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/coco2_xmas_large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/retroscan\/coco2_xmas_small.jpg\" alt=\"TRS-80 Color Computer 2 Christmas Ad\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As a sequel to last year&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/253\" target=\"_blank\">Very TRS-80 Christmas<\/a>,&#8221; we have this ad for the TRS-80 Color Computer 2.  I&#8217;m not sure what makes this model &#8220;better&#8221; than the first Color Computer (CoCo), aside from obvious: different keyboard, ugly case-retooling, and perhaps more RAM.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, this unit ages to a nasty brown and its rubber-dome keyboard isn&#8217;t much of an improvement (I still like the CoCo 1&#8217;s keyboard better).  But at least Tandy saw it fit to advertise the unit with a Christmas theme, which is quite relevant to the season at hand.<\/p>\n<p><center><em>[ From Computers and Electronics, December 1983 ]<\/em><\/center><\/p>\n<p><small><em>If you use this image on your site, please support &#8220;Retro Scan of the Week&#8221; by giving us obvious credit for the original scan and entry.  Thanks.<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a sequel to last year&#8217;s &#8220;Very TRS-80 Christmas,&#8221; we have this ad for the TRS-80 Color Computer 2. I&#8217;m not sure what makes this model &#8220;better&#8221; than the first Color Computer (CoCo), aside from obvious: different keyboard, ugly case-retooling, and perhaps more RAM. Unfortunately, this unit ages to a nasty brown and its rubber-dome [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,26,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-collecting","category-computer-info-and-history","category-retro-scan-of-the-week","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}