[Coco] [Color Computer] Hello

[Rogelio Perea]

Welcome!

By all means feel free to join in the discussions, we have all from
beginners to really high tech exchanges here :-)


-- Rogelio


On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 9:51 PM, Baar <baar_bear at cox.net> wrote:

>      Hello and greetings. My name is Michael and I'm a new member of your
> group.  I was a Cocoholic way back in the day. Got my CoCo II as Christmas
> present in 1985 and upgraded to CoCo III at Christmas 1987-this I used until
> I got my first PC for Christmas 1995.
>
>      My CoCos are long gone but they served me well.  Tandy gave me the
> computer, but it was Lonnie Falk (RIP!) and the Rainbow Magazine (also RIP!)
> that showed me what my lowly "Trash 80" could do-and I could do quite a bit
> with it.  Used it for schoolwork and spent many happy hours programming it
> in BASIC and ML and accessing BBSes through my modem (it was mind blowing to
> me back in the day when my lowly CoCo could connect and communicate with my
> college's powerful VAX mainframe).
>
>       That's it about my history. Thanks for having me aboard.
>
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