[Coco] Amazing video of a large vintage computer collection

[wdg3rd at comcast.net]

----- "Gene Heskett" <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:

> That is always a possibility.  It seems that for the last 15 years,
> one can 
> have his electronics in any color, as long as its black...  Then you
> have to 
> get out a 200 watt lamp just to be able to read the raised printing
> around the 
> darned jacks to make sure you plug it in right.  I don't know how
> others feel, 
> but that scene to me is a PIMA.

Worse than that, the jacks are now labeled with hieroglyphs instead of words.  Part of the reason I don't use Windows or Mac systems is that I don't read ancient egyptian.  And now the hardware is labeled that way.  Be very afraid.

Most of the grey (Mercedes Silver) CoCo Ones I recall were an extreme dark (charcoal) grey under the paint that rubbed off of the leading edge.  Almost black, but not quite.  I do have a total deader in the basement I can hacksaw apart (lightning strike, I doubt any rare components have any magic smoke left, it's not like I'm cutting a baby in half), but that's the color that showed up on our floor machines at the RSCCs I worked in and on all of mine.
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Ward Griffiths        wdg3rd at comcast.net

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