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

[Bill Loguidice]

I'm a big collector. I have over 400 computer, videogame and related systems
and thousands of boxed titles, and a similar mass of accessories and
literature. As a kid, I grew up mostly with Commodore (Vic-20, C-64, Amiga)
and Atari stuff (2600). I didn't get into the CoCo specifically until much,
much later, though I did use the unrelated TRS-80 Model III and 4 in school
for BASIC programming, and certainly had a fondness for those form factors.

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On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 7:11 PM, Jeremy Michea <jmichea at cogeco.ca> 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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