[Coco] CoCoFest Report

[Boisy Pitre]

Frank,

I have to ask... how do you think Mark and I have changed?? :)

Regards,
Boisy G. Pitre
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On Apr 2, 2009, at 10:05 AM, Frank Swygert wrote:

> I see lots of faces I recall in the photos, but can't always put the  
> right names to them! a few have changed a good bit from when I last  
> saw them -- Boisy and Mark for sure (but I still recognized them!)  
> -- but others such as Allen, Alan, Tony & Linda, and Bro. Jeremy  
> haven't changed much at all. Can't help but wonder if anyone would  
> recognize me, but I don't think I've changed that much. I know  
> there's one night at a Chicago fest that Tony, Linda, and Allen will  
> never forget!  Seems like someone else was with us (Tony wasn't, he  
> was LOOKING for us!), but I don't recall who... Allen??
> Maybe next year I can get out to the fest just for old times sake,  
> not sure right now. I hope I do get out there before the REAL last  
> one passes!
> I don't even mess with an emulator any more, not after finding out  
> that I couldn't get the video right on my old HP (486) laptop. I  
> finally gave that thing away. Wanted to set it up so it booted  
> straight into the DOS emulator, just for fun (sort of make a "CoCo4"  
> laptop), but that old Omnibook 6000 used some funky video chip or  
> circuitry that the emulator just didn't like. Might work on my P3  
> Thinkpad 600e, but haven't had time to even try that!
> I still like to keep up here on the list though, and might yet find  
> time to pull one of the two CoCos I still have out. I saved a couple  
> I thought might be collectible one day -- a grey CoCo1 that is  
> either the first model capable of 64K or the last grey one (hmm...  
> might be one and the same!), and a CoCo2B. Sold my two custom CoCo3s  
> year ago because they were still very usable at the time, and I  
> didn't want to let them sit in a closet and gather dust when someone  
> would enjoy having them.
> -----------
> Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 17:55:14 -0500
> From: Allen Huffman <alsplace at pobox.com>
>
> On Apr 1, 2009, at 5:51 PM, Mark Marlette wrote:
>
>> > Imagine what the name list would have been back in the late  >  
>> 80's......  :)
>
> Maybe that's why I was bad at names then. The sad thing is, I've  
> been  "away" from the community long enough that I've forgotten  
> people's  names that I used to know! Always embarrassing.
>
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