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

[Bob Devries]

Hmm, let's see....

Coco3 1MB SCII 2x128MB SCSI HD CM8 monitor
2x Amiga 2000HD/030
IMS MM/1 68070 3MB
SECAD AS-68K currently not functional
Applix 1616 (68000 based, propriety OS)
2x Atari ST (STF and STE)
Acorn BBC-B
Apple Macintosh
Silicon Chip MAXIMITE (CPU32)
Amiga 1000
several Amiga 500

Never owned a Commodore 64, but I did have a C128 in my home for a while 
when I was software librarian for the CCUG(Q) (Commodore Computer User's 
Group (Queensland) Inc.

In the process of building an N8VEM SBC (Z80 and CP/M OS)

Regards, Bob Devries
Dalby, QLD, Australia

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeremy Michea" <jmichea at cogeco.ca>
To: "Coco Archives" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Friday, August 26, 2011 9:11 AM
Subject: [Coco] Anyone else collect other old computers/game consoles beside 
the Coco?


>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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