[Coco] [Off Topic] Very General Question

[AMODMO at aol.com]

     I live in the Green Mountain State, in the capital city of Montpelier, 
high on a hill. We've still got snow banks along the sidewalk and driveway. For 
the first 14 years of my life I lived in Lowville, New York, the gateway to 
the Adirondacks. The winter there was even more snowy than here in Vermont. 
      My first computer was a CoCo2 using cassette tapes for programs and 
files. I moved up to a CoCo3 with Disk Extended Color Basic (under license from 
Microsoft and Microware - - - do you suppose Bill Gates may have personally 
written some or all of that operating system?) I never learned ML programming, 
but I did write several Programs in BASIC that I still use: Typaline 80 (a word 
processor and typewriter emulator), Wide Screen Disk Menu (M.BAS for short. It 
reads a disk directory and lets you read any ASCII file, load or run any 
program, print disk labels, kill a program, etc.), and SONGBOOK, which displays 
all the BIN music files, lets you choose one to play, then displays the words of 
the song, one verse at a time, as its music plays. (It's a KARAOKE program 
written about a dozen years before that word was heard of!)
     My modern computer is an iMac, which I consider a pretty great computer.
     Oh, by the way, my name is Dave Otis.
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