[Coco] [Color Computer] Re: Hello All

[Charlie]

--- In ColorComputer at yahoogroups.com, "Bob" <theother_bob at y...> wrote:

> >  I find it.... well .... wierd that there doesn't even barely 

seem 

> to be an online COCO community yet people still have COCO fests.

> > 

> >  Maybe I don't read the correct "lists" or forums. I check here 

on  

> yahoo or Delphi about daily to find.... nothing. I think you can 

> count the number of active people in these forums on a single hand.

> > 

> >  There doesn't seem to be any real software dealers. No one from 

> the old software companies like Sundog or Diecom are active with 

the 

> COCO at all. These floppys are 15+ years old and when they go bad 

we 

> are SOL.

>  

> 

> Too true Charlie. First of all, the bulk of the CoCo chatter is on 

> the MaltedMedia list, including about a dozen replies to your post.

> 

> You can subscribe to it as a mail list or read it as a newsgroup if 

> you don't already. There's probably some heartburn out there over 

> some a$$hole spamming bit.listserv.coco literally to death and some 

> folks just refuse to give up the ghost and join the new list or the 

> yahoo lists... that's their loss as well as ours.

> 

> I for one am still developing CC3 GUI software to make it easier 

for 

> folks with hard drives and HDB-DOS to manage files on their 260+ 

> (potentially) disk drives. I just wish I had done this 10 years ago 

> when I might have had a chance to market it.

> 

> Well, it's still fun for me and yes, right now there are some 

killer 

> products being introduced for the CoCo. I might even try my hand at 

> an html rendering program for the CoCo3 now that ethernet is on the 

> way. I love programming my CoCo in a way that PC's will never 

compare 

> to.

> 

> cheers,

> Bob Emery

> http://www.geocities.com/theother_bob


Thanks for the reply Bob! How can I subscribe to this Maltedmedia 
list? I'd prefer reading it as a newgroup (name?) but e-mail would be 
OK also.

-Charlie



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