OT: Tandy Silver

[Bill Vermillion]

On or about Thu, Aug 19 09:52 , while attempting a Zarathustra 
emulation Jay R. Ashworth thus spake: 

> On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 09:12:12AM -0400, Ward Griffiths wrote:
>
> > Yup. A _bunch_ of black hardware available, and stuff
> > that _almost_ matches the Mercedes Silver of my old Tandy
> > collection. The color that seemed to be the biggest complaint
> > about the Model One aside from the cassette interface (that
> > was better than anything by Apple, Atari or Commodore, it's
> > just that it wasn't as _bad_ as those others so users used
> > tape long enough to complain rather than buy diskette drives
> > with the next paycheck).

> And of course the reason that color was chosen...

> Naw; let's make it a trivia quiz.  Anyone remember where Tandy Silver
> came from?

Everyone knows that don't they? :-)^32

They used a readily available paint shade that was picked when they
needed to paint the RCA TV sets that were modified to work with the
Model I.

The name is Mercedes Silver.  That shade was available quickly.

Bill
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