[Coco] Usergroups / Hardware Hunt (was: Anyone got snow over there?)

[David Roper]

Bob Devries wrote:
> David Roper said:
>> PS. Bob, I recently got some old "Australian Rainbow" and "Australian 
>> Coco" magazines from '86 and '87, and was pleased to see your details 
>> in the 'local contacts' listing
>
> Yes, I was quite heavily involved in two local usergroups; the Kenmore 
> Usergroup, which was your everyday Coco user club, and the Australian 
> OS9 Usergroup, for OS9 power users, which started July '88 and 
> continued until August '94. I was also editor/publisher of a 
> newsletter for the Kenmore group for some time.
>
> Of course, the contact details are now out-of-date, since I have moved 
> west to the little country town of Dalby in south-west Queensland 
> since that time.
>
> -- 
> Regards, Bob Devries, Dalby, Queensland, Australia

Hi again Bob,

I'm glad you had the experience of being part of a user-group.

Unfortunately, until I discovered the coco newsgroup and mailing list 
some few years back, I'd only ever met one other person who owned a 
Coco, and his was as hardware-crippled as mine! lol

Speaking of hardware-crippled..

I'm trying to put together the last few items I need for my Coco setup 
to be 'useful', rather than 'interesting'

Ideally, I'd like my kids to be able to use the Coco for their basic 
word-processing requirements (early-mid primary school), as well as 
learning to code and have fun with.

Currently, I'm short a printer and a 5.25 drive for my PC to enable 
transfers. I'd also like to add a mouse and a cassette deck to the 
collection (I've got a large volume of stuff on tape, and no way to load 
it!)

After picking up a cheap Coco2 the other day, I realised I don't have 
the RF cable needed to use it with a TV. Nor do any Dick Smith's / Tandy 
in NSW carry such an item anymore.

Can anyone help with the above?

I'm happy to pay reasonable prices for the above (including postage etc) 
to Wollongong area, NSW Australia - email me off-list to discuss :)

Kind regards,
David