[Coco] Re: The typical CoCo user is aged...?!?

[Jim Cox]

On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 19:19:25 -0500 (EST)
  sock at axess.com (John Kowalski) wrote:

> I'll be 34 in a few days.  My parents first bought us a 

>TRS-80 Model III.

> Later a CoCo 2.  I later bought myself a CoCo 3 and an 

>Atari ST around the

> time that they came out.  The ST was great - it was more 

>powerful yet in

> other ways extremely similar to the CoCo 3, but it 

>didn't quite have the

> same kind of attraction for experimentation as the CoCo 

>3 had.  I eventually

> stopped using the Atari, but never gave up the CoCo.

> 

> I was also determined to make the CoCo 3 do some cool 

>stuff.  If the Atari

> could do it, I figured, so could the CoCo!  The more 

>impossible people

> perceived an idea to be, the better :)

> 

> 


John:

Like you I had a CoCo first and then an ST.  The one thing 
that I didn't like about the ST when compared to the CoCo, 
was that there was no real expansion bus, and what was 
there was pretty much closed to the end user.

-Jim