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2025-12-29: I have restored the wiki to a backup from the end of November. Starting in September 2025, accesses went form the 800MB-1.2GB range per month to 26GB in September, 42GB in October, and 70GB in November with most accesses originating from China. As soon as I realized what was causing all the access problems in November, I shut it down (it had reached 36GB by then) behind a password/login screen. The database had gotten corrupted, and I tried a restore from just before the spike in access but that didn't work. Thus, end of November. I still have the other daily backups so if there were any important additions in December, let me know and maybe they can be recovered. - Allen H.
80C
80C (short for TRS-80 Color Computer) was an informal moniker for the Color Computer used by third-party magazines (such as The Rainbow and 80 Micro) and their advertisers in the early years of the computer's market life. Although brevity was one motivation given the limited space available in headlines and especially ad copy, and "CoCo" had not yet caught on, the major motivation was fear of running afoul of Tandy's lawyers, since "TRS-80 Color Computer" was a Tandy trademark. It's indicative of how aggressively Tandy sought to monopolize not only the software and accessories market but even the media for its products that publishers would be hesitant to even name the computer in question in a direct and clear fashion. This situation was unique to the CoCo community - no other mass-market home computer system featured dedicated third-party publications and vendors that tiptoed around mentioning the computer they were for. In any case, after a few years, publishers learned that boilerplate statements acknowledging Tandy's trademarks warded off the lawyers, so this concern faded, as did the use of "80C".