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

[Joel Ewy]

On 08/29/2011 07:34 PM, john T Chasteen wrote:

> Joel

> The coco was my first machine also. and finallly got the coco3 and then

> my first AT&T PC

> Now I have 3 coco3's and several PC and the desktop is a flat case 486

> machine with wind

> and DOS 6.2

>

> What do you do with the coco's?


Hi John,

Mostly I play with them.  Often I see something that someone posts on 
this mail list that piques my interest again, and I set up a CoCo and 
see what I can do with it.  About a year and a half ago some guys worked 
out several palettes that would give roughly 256 artifact colors on a 
composite monitor or TV in a way that was pretty easily usable.  So I 
made a slideshow to demonstrate what digitized images look like in that 
pseudo-mode.  You can see a video of the slideshow on YouTube:  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjcUdoW0rrg

That's about the only thing of note I've done with the CoCo for a 
while.  My son is 8, and I'm going to try to teach him a little logic 
and programming using the CoCo.  There's no better way to learn than 
with an old school computer.

JCE

> I am still trying to get a system working properly. Cloud9, Chris  John

> Mark and

> Roger Taylor is giving me plenty of help. I want to learn much more about

> using

> OS9, Basic O9, NitrOS9 and Tandy application programs for the coco. I

> don't

> have my new KX-P2123 dot matrix printer connected... still have a lot of

> loose ends to catch up on.

>

> Since my wife fell and broke her hip, I have been spending a lot with

> trips to doctors and rehab.

> but get some time every day to make progress.

>

> John

>

> On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 10:04:47 -0500 Joel Ewy<jcewy at swbell.net>  writes:

>> The CoCo was my first computer, and will always remain at the top of

>> my

>> list.  ...