[Coco] Getting set up and notes to Charlie and Roy

[Jim Cox]

Well my CoCo saw first light again last night and 
everything went well.  For some time now I've been 
planning to set up the CoCo and my 6809 trainer in a spot 
where I have enough room for them.

Given all the stuff I have stuff in my place for the last 
26 years has made the task a harder than it should be, but 
it's finally getting done.  Hopefully once everything is 
set up and  running I can make some contributions to the 
CoCo Community.

It's funny that initially I forgot the basic commands to 
run a program, but after a little help from Briza in CoCo 
Chat, I started remembering things.  I grabbed a copy of 
the 89 April Rainbow disk and the first program I ran was 
something called Starview.  It came up and made some 
noises, but since I didn't have the magazine in front of 
me, I didn't know what to do.  I'll try and dig up the 
magazine tonight and find out more.

I am trying to get in touch from someone on CoCo Chat by 
the name of Charlie.  He sent me a locking plate for the 
CoCo and had some advice about setting it up, but I can't 
find his emails now.  So Charlie, if you are out there, 
drop me a note.

Also, I am eager to get Roy's video adapter up and 
running.  The one thing I don't like about the CM8 is that 
is needs to be elevated to be placed properly behind the 
CoCo.  A VGA monitor won't have those problems.

Well, got to get back to setting stuff up.  By the way, 
Boisy, I hope to have DW2 working soon.  Thanks!

-Jim