[Coco] Anyone else collect other old computers/game consoles beside the Coco?

[Frank Pittel]

Currently my only "retro" computing interest centers around the Coco and
various variations like the coco3fpga project. As it is I don't have enough
time or money for all of my hobbies!

The Other Frank


On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 07:11:13PM -0400, Jeremy Michea wrote:

> I thought it might be an interesting discussion. Obviously we all

> love the Coco but what else do you love? Many of you may know that

> I'm a huge Atari fan and have been collecting for the Atari

> 2600/7800 and 8-bit line of computers for about 20 years now, on and

> off as it was my first console in 1980. Through the 80's I also

> owned the original Nintendo (NES) and Turbografx-16 but the only

> computer I used aside from PC's (late 80's and early 90's) was my

> beloved Coco.

> 

> As a side note, I almost didn't get a coco. Brand loyalty at the

> time lead our family to buy an Atari 800XL but my father wasn't

> interested in buying all new software and games for a new system so

> a friend suggested the coco since he had all kinds of software to

> share with us (well, copied software on cassettes but as a 13 year

> old in 1982 I wasn't aware or concerned about piracy so that's

> another story) so we got a used Coco 1 with the chicklet keyboard, a

> cassette player and a bunch of cassettes with, yes, mostly games. I

> did do some homework but lets be honest, I spent most of my time

> playing some great coco 1 games.

> 

> As another side, yet rambling note, what BBS's did any of you use

> back in the day? Here in Southern Ontario, the one I used the most

> in my area was called "Route 66". I believe it was the only coco

> based BBS in my area where it seemed predominately Commodore 64.

> Also downloaded a lot of software from Route 66 as well as a local

> coco user group that met once a month in a local french public

> school.

> 

> I remember being so excited when the Coco 3 was announced. I spent

> the summer prior to its release in the glorious field (literally) of

> corn detasseling to save up the money to buy my brand new Coco 3. I

> remember being in complete awe of the demo in the store and the

> manager was nice enough to make a disk copy that I played a lot at

> home. :)

> 

> Anyway, I've rambled enough. Anyone else have any stories about

> their other retro passions, coco musings, etc? :)

> 

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